Felix Mendelssohn - String Quartet in F minor Op. 80 (GSARCI VIDEO REUPLOAD)

This is usually listed as string quartet no 6, which is correct in terms of order of composition. It was written in the composer’s last year. Naturally, it is an elegantly conceived composition. But it is also remarkable in that here the Mendelssohn’s ordinary sense of emotional reserve collapses completely. Ordinarily showing the surface coolness of a man born into the upper classes, Mendelssohn’s facade dissolves entirely, showing despair and rage. The reason is obvious: He returned home from Leipzig (w