Lobgesang von Felix Mendelssohn

Soloists Stuttgarter Kantorei Stiftsphilharmonie Stuttgart Kay Johannsen, conductor

While in the compositions of the youthful Mendelssohn the orientation towards Bach as a role model is noticeable in many respects, from the 1830s onwards the examination of Beethoven and the conception of large forms comes to the fore. As a typical aesthetic problem of Romanticism, the question of a credible combination of poetry and music also plays a role here. Felix finally succeeded in finding an answer in his 31st year (1840) with the composition of the grandiose Lobgesang as a large-scale "symphonic cantata" on various psalm texts, culminating in the praise of the 150th: "All that has breath, praise the Lord!"