Description

Ullrich Scheideler has edited one of Mendelssohn's most important and beautiful piano works, comparing it again with the original sources. Henle Publishers is now issuing this revised edition, complete with Scheideler's comprehensive commentary.

The work was first titled an "Etude" in its 1828 version. Two years later, Mendelssohn reworked the piece, renaming it the "Rondo capriccioso" in order to present it to the young piano virtuoso Delphine von Schauroth, whom he was courting at the time. In this revised form, Mendelssohn made the work even more brilliant and added a "moving introductory adagio," as he described in a letter to his sister Fanny. Even today, this captivating Rondo capriccioso continues to pose a rewarding challenge for accomplished pianists.