One of Felix Mendelssohn's most popular pieces, his "Italian" Symphony (No.4) - dating from 1833 but with subsequent revisions - was written after a 10 month trip to Italy taking in Venice, Florence, Rome and Naples. The music, along with Mendelssohn's watercolour paintings and sketches, gives the composer's impressions of the country, and uses Neapolitan dance rhythms in the finale.
Mendelssohn's final revision - the one most often performed today - had its premiere three years after his death, in 1847, in Leipzig with the Gewandhaus Orchestra conducted by Julius Rietz.
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