Prelude and Fugue No. 2

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by Felix Mendelssohn

Background

In Prelude No. 2, "The tempo marking of Andante con moto, the dynamic level of mezzo piano, and the 6/8 meter combine to create a pastoral mood, a marked contrast to the first prelude of the collection. The composition is in ABA song form, with coda.....This is the most sensitive and delicate prelude of the three and shows more innovation on the part of the composer in style and harmony than do its companions."[1]

The fugue is a four-voice fugue of high quality counterpoint and contains a lot of chromaticism. "The subject appears first in the pedal and, after the exposition (ending m. 10), appears in alternation with episodic and sequential material until the coda, m. 57. Within a five-measure portion of the brief coda, Mendelssohn incorporated the fugue subject three times in stretto."[2]

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Notes

  1. ↑ Seaton, Douglass. The Mendelssohn Companion,London: Greenwood Press, 2001, p.636.
  2. ↑ Seaton, Douglass. The Mendelssohn Companion,London: Greenwood Press, 2001, p.636.
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