The Reformation

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Felix Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 5 was written as a tribute to the Protestant Reformation on the occasion of the third centenary of the Augsburg Confession (1530), which was the first official description of the principles of Lutheranism. The composer was a scholar of Baroque music and, in particular of Johann Sebastian Bach, so this symphony can be construed as a tribute to the moral and religious principles of the Eisenach-born composer.

The symphony's programmatic structure traces the evolution of Lutheranism in Germany through the incorporation of different chorales and liturgical hymns, like the Dresdner Amen (Dresden amen) sequence by Johann Gottlieb Naumann or the chorale Ein feste Burg is unser Gott (A Mighty Fortress is our God) by Luther.

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