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The historical past played perhaps a more important role in Mendelssohn's music than in that of any other composer. This article approaches the work traditionally seen as his first major compositional achievement, the Octet for Strings, op. 20 (1825), from the perspective of the composer's strong historical sense. In its cyclical manipulations of musical time, Mendelssohn's Octet sets up a new formal and expressive paradigm for a musical work.
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This page is a summary of: Musical History and Self-Consciousness in Mendelssohn's Octet, Op. 20, 19th-Century Music, January 2008, University of California Press,
DOI: 10.1525/ncm.2008.32.2.131.
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