Instrumental Performance Study Of Piano Fantasia In F Sharp Minor By Mendelssohn

As an excellent representative of the German music art in the 19th century, Mendelssohn not only maintained the traditions of classic German music, but also improved it in terms of musical forms and composition techniques so as to achieve the perfect combination with the fantastic nature of Romanticism, and form unique music personality and unique characteristics of music details. The emotional music works of Mendelssohn indeed increased the charm of the German music art. As one of the outstanding musicians in Germany during the Romanticism period, he created music works with his own characteristics. Piano Fantasia in F Sharp Minor is a representative but little-known music work of Mendelssohn. Its music style and performance characteristics deserve an in-depth study.Lots of data and information are collected before the start of this research. Besides, the author refers to literatures relevant to this research and studies the music work based on the author’s own performance experience and from the perspective of composition background, harmony style and performance techniques. Based on the above analysis and discussion, the key and difficult points to perform this work are pointed out, with suggestions put forward for better performance of the music work. It is hoped that these suggestions can provide some reference for other performers and scholars.Through studying the text and performance of Piano Fantasia in F Sharp Minor by Mendelssohn, this paper represents the music work in terms of emotions and techniques, explores the music composition talents of Mendelssohn shown in the music work and keeps exploring the characteristics of music works.This paper is made up of three parts, namely the introduction part, the body part and the conclusion part.Part 1:IntroductionThis part introduces the topic selection, research significance and research status both at home and abroad.Party 2:Mendelssohn and Piano Fantasia in F Sharp MinorThis part mainly introduces the life background of Mendelssohn, the influence of the life background on Mendelssohn, Mendelssohn’s major works and contributions. This part helps the author achieve a deep understanding of the style of Piano Fantasia in F SharpMinor.Part 3:Text study of Piano Fantasia in F Sharp MinorThis part conducts a score analysis of every music chapter from the perspective of harmony, musical form and totality and studies the style and the artistic connotation of the music work to lay the foundation for the performance study of the work.Part 4:Performance study of Piano Fantasia in F Sharp MinorThis is the key part of the whole paper. Based on the score analysis, this part explores the performance of every music chapter in terms of pedal, vigor and rhythm at an attempt to solve the technical difficulties. It is hoped that the author’s performance and learning experiences could help find the key and difficult points of the music performance and offer some suggestions to solve these difficult points.Part 5:ConclusionsThis is a large-scale piano work with high artistic value, which demonstrates both the classical and romantic sides of Mendelssohn and reflects the unique music composition concept and music style of Mendelssohn.