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The String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80 was composed by #FelixMendelssohn 🇩🇪 in 1847. It was the last major piece he completed before he died two months later, on November 4th, 1847. It is believed he composed the piece as an homage to his sister #FannyMendelssohn, who died on May 14th of that year, the title «#ARequiemforFanny». This is an excellent performance (as always) by the Musopen String Quartet (link below) 0:00 1st Movement - Allegro vivace assai 7:41 2nd Movement - Allegro assai 12:42 3rd Movement - Adagio 20:47 4th Movement - Finale: Allegro molto The quartet was first heard in private on #October5th, 1847 in the presence of Ignaz Moscheles. The first public performance was on November 4th, 1848 at the Leipzig Konservatorium with Joseph Joachim, #Mendelssohn's young mentee, playing the violin. The other members of the quartet were Moritz Klengel, Freidrich Hermann, and Carl Wittman, all regular performers with Leipzig's Gewandhaus Orchestra. The score was published posthumously in 1850 by Breitkopf & Härtel, Mendelssohn's longtime publishing house. The original manuscript is stored in the Jagiellonian Library in Kraków, Poland. Original download link:
