About the creation

The piece corresponds with the music of Felix Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn is regarded as one of the foremost composers in the history of western music, though he is often viewed as more conservative and less adventurous than his contemporaries. Despite that, he also had a unique and easily recognizable style. In this piece I took musical ideas and stylistic features from the music of Mendelssohn and attempted to recontextualize them through a modern lens, not as an hommage to the composer (hence the name), but rather as an attempt to find his relevancy to our time. The opening motive of the piece is taken from the coda of the final movement of Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 3, and it reappears in key points throughout the piece.