Organ Sonata No. 2 in C minor, Op. 65 No. 2
This guide follows Mendelssohn’s Organ Sonata No. 2 in C minor, Op. 65 No. 2 (1845) in three parts: Grave – Adagio, Allegro maestoso e vivace and Fuga: Allegro moderato (fugue).
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Follow all 26 sections as they play
- I –
- II e
- III:
I – 0:03–4:37
A slow, serious opens the as a free . A song-like follows (Song-form A): its melody in varied form (A′), a contrasting idea (B) starts, and then the starts. The is , and a passage follows. Here Mendelssohn writes a line on one (keyboard) against two accompanying parts on another, and the parts cross so often that three staves are needed to notate them.
- Free Introductory Section
- Song-form A
II e 4:41–6:52
Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.
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