Mendelssohn: Te Deum a 8
“Wer Musik nicht liebt, verdient nicht, ein Mensch genannt zu werden, wer sie nur liebt, ist erst ein halber Mensch, wer sie aber treibt, ist ein ganzer Mensch.” – “He who does not love music does not deserve to be called a human being; he who merely loves it is only half a human being; but he who makes music is a whole human being.” (transl. from https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/goethe-musician-and-his-influence-on-german-song. In accordance with this Goethe quotation, Mayira Florschütz’s choice of a Favorit Work a work which not only lies especially close to her heart, but one which she also performed most recently: The Te Deum a 8 with basso continuo, by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.
