Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 (Score)

This is Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 4 in A Major

Performed by: Czech National Symphony Orchestra

For the ease of watching and listening the performance of this piece will be skipping from the first ending six after letter B to the second ending on page eleven in the first movement.

The Symphony No. 4 in A major, commonly known as the Italian, is an orchestral symphony written by German composer Felix Mendelssohn. The work has its origins, as had the composer's Scottish 3rd Symphony and The Hebrides overture, in the tour of Europe which occupied Mendelssohn from 1829 to 1831. Its inspiration is the color and atmosphere of Italy, where Mendelssohn made sketches but left the work incomplete. Mendelssohn completed the symphony in Berlin on the 13th of March 1833, in response to an invitation for a symphony from the London (now Royal) Philharmonic Society. He conducted the first performance himself in London on the 13th of May 1833 at a London Philharmonic Society concert. The Germania Musical Society of Boston gave the first performance in the United States, on the 1st of November 1851, with Carl Bergmann conducting. Mendelssohn himself, however, remained dissatisfied with the symphony. He completed revisions to the work, particularly the last 3 movements, in July 1834. However, he never published the symphony during his lifetime. The symphony was published in 1851, in the original version given at the May 1833 premiere. The published 1851 version is the standard edition performed generally by symphony orchestras.

The score in this video is in the public domain, and was downloaded from imslp.org

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