Mendelssohn: Fingal's Cave Overture (The Hebrides)
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I don't blame you, this is indeed a wonderful composition.
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Happy 2012. This is so beautiful and defies description. Mendelssohn forever!!
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@windstorm1000 haha silly me i was just writing quickly: yes it is an overture. :) and i can understand where you are coming from.
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@Soccer1296 good question--but Ithink the cave figured prominently into the composing of the piece--if one reads his letters to his family regarding it, one can see this clearly--the influence. Its not a song, but an overture.
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@windstorm1000 correct me if im wrong, but im pretty sure that Mendelssohn wrote this from a cave looking out into the majestic New World, America. Although its Fingal's Cave, the cave has no significance in terms of the definition of the song, but rather the landscape Mendelsohhn saw. :)
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too fast--orchestra lacks feeling and space. this is a cave we're talking here, not arace. like the pictures thoguh
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In the middle of the cliff.....it reminds me of a huge "bar-code". What an amazingly weird/cool looking geological formation!
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Our world is so fortunate to have Felix Mendelssohn's music still with us. I hope it will be forever.
This is my favorite classical piece of all time!!
GrannyTenderstone 7 months ago 8
Academic Decathlon 2011!
JonDoe52458834925211 8 months ago 3