Trauermarsch
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, arr. Ben Tordoff
Composed:
1843 Arranged:
2006 Grouping:
sSSAAATTTBBb Duration:
02:30
Like many other famous composers, Felix Mendelssohn began his musical life as a child prodigy. His music is classical in style, but some of his works were clearly inspired by or depict external events and bear descriptive titles (e.g. Venetian Boat Song, Fingal's Cave). However, he shied away from any programmatic interpretations voicing the opinion that music was to be interpreted by the listener.
Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words for piano were a novel form and underlined his belief that music need not be programmatic. He deliberately omitted descriptions or titles for most of them, but a few he is thought to have lent a name, including the 'Trauermarsch' (funeral march) presented here.
This arrangement was created for Plural Sax in 2006 at a time when we regularly managed to get 10-12 players. It has yet to be performed.
© 2006 Ben Tordoff
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