CONCERTO • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Concerto

... the passionate expression in music; Mendelssohn's music is of the refined, delicate type—like his own bringing up. The perfectly polished "Songs without Words," the smoothly flowing symphonies, the lyric violin concerto—these are most typical of his genius. Only here and there in his works are there fitful flashes of deeper significance, as in certain dramatic passages of the "Elijah" oratorio. And so, when Felix found himself possessed of a passion for Cecile Jeanrenaud, the beautiful, ...

— The Loves of Great Composers • Gustav Kobb