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Allegro Brillant (Mendelssohn)

work by Felix Mendelssohn

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ85741585 ↗
Source-derived summary

Allegro Brillant, Op. 92, MWV T 4 is a composition written for Piano four hands by Felix Mendelssohn consisting of a theme in A major, written in 1841 and dedicated to Clara Schumann.

The expressive Andante theme alternates between the Secondo and Primo, segueing into the virtuosic Allegro assai vivace movement with a rush of scales. All fingering, metronome marks, and notational omissions have been supplemented by the editors. Allegro brillant is considered one of the most challenging pieces in the entire piano duet repertoire.

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External links

Allegro brillant: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project

Blair Johnston. Allegro Brillant, for piano, 4 hands in A major, Op. 92 at AllMusic

"Allegro Brillant, Op.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Allegro Brillant (Mendelssohn)” as work by Felix Mendelssohn. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1841—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Allegro, Brillant and Mendelssohn can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as work by Felix Mendelssohn. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q85741585. VIAF identifies the subject as 186513239. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1841.

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This entry incorporates text from “Allegro Brillant (Mendelssohn)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.