Mendelssohn's Spring Song (1910)
Felix Mendelssohn taking a stroll near his home in the Austrian Tyrol, in the early spring, receives the inspiration for his famous "Spring Song." The first notes of the song are furnished him by a hunter blowing his horn; he receives his idea for the second strain from the crying of a child; the third strain is brought to him in the yawning of some sleepy laborers. Continuing his walk, he comes upon some peasant girls singing in a cabbage garden and from them obtains more material. The finale of the third strain he gets from a quarrel between the forewoman and one of the girl laborers, which quarrel he aids in prolonging for his benefit. The final strains come to him as he listens to two peasant lovers, the man playing a violin, the girl singing in unison. Taking the violin from the man, to whom he gives his card, he proceeds, playing as he goes. Coming to a beer garden, he meets two of his friends who aid him in his work. Finally, surrounded by the many followers he has picked up, the huntsman, the mother and child, the peasant girls and the lovers, he completes the piece and plays it, when all join in singing it under his leadership.
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