World Music, Sweeping the Classical Music Scene

Since coming to New York City, world music has begun to take off as a central movement in the traditional art music scene. It is interesting because of how long it took to arrive at this point. Back in the early and mid-nineties was when the seeds for the now adolescent world music scene came […]

Mendelssohn Octet Op. 20

Welcome To June Everyone. Today I have the Mendelssohn Octet for you along with its original manuscript rehosted from IMSLP. Here’s what Wikipedia has to say about the work:

Felix Mendelssohn‘s Octet in E-flat major, Op. 20 was composed in the autumn of 1825, when the composer was at the young age of 16.

The […]