SKU: BR.SON-422
ISBN 9790004802670. 9 x 12 inches.
The music world has long been familiar with Mendelssohn's celebrated, standard-setting Piano Trio in D minor op. 49. No one, however, knew how many stages this masterpiece went through before it was finally published in 1840. According to preliminary sketches that can no longer be reconstructed, the early version of the of the work in its traditional piano-trio scoring was written in spring 1839. It was given its first performance at the Mendelssohn home in Berlin and remained unpublished. The following year, Mendelssohn brought out a version of the work with flute instead of violin at the request of an English publisher. He had already strongly reworked the original version for the publication. Another revision was made of the flute version, which not only took into account the different technical possibilities of a wind instrument, but also affected the compositional substance of the work. Thus Mendelssohn very nearly did write his D minor Piano Trio three times!
SKU: FL.FX073428
Instruments: 1 Solo Piano; Difficuly Level: Grade 5; Duration: 1 mn 50 s; Musical Style: Classical, Educational; Category: Original Composition, Republished Master Piece; Composer: Felix MENDELSSOHN;.
SKU: FL.FX073426
Instruments: 1 Solo Piano; Difficuly Level: Grade 4; Duration: 1 mn 40 s; Musical Style: Classical, Educational; Category: Original Composition, Republished Master Piece; Composer: Felix MENDELSSOHN;.
SKU: FL.FX073429
Instruments: 1 Solo Piano; Difficuly Level: Grade 4; Duration: 2 mn 05 s; Musical Style: Classical, Educational; Category: Original Composition, Republished Master Piece; Composer: Felix MENDELSSOHN;.
SKU: FL.FX073427
SKU: FL.FX072888
Instruments: 1 Solo Piano; Difficuly Level: Grade 4; Duration: 3 mn 10 s; Musical Style: Classical, Educational; Category: Original Composition, Republished Master Piece; Composer: Felix MENDELSSOHN;.
SKU: BR.SON-443
ISBN 9790004803516. 10 x 12.5 inches.
Mendelssohn's ConfessionThe Reformation Symphony, misleadingly numbered posthumously as 5 by its publishers, was Mendelssohn's first confrontation with the large symphonic form in Beethoven's wake. Linking it conceptually with the 300th anniversary of the Augsburg Confession in 1830 seems to have first occurred late in the progress of its composition, yet the premiere did not take place until 1832 and ultimately even enabled the composer to distance himself completely from his work and its concept. Thanks to access to a new source [or, ... new access to sources... or ...new access to a source...?], this edition can now finally refute the legend that a separate original or early version of the symphony once existed.
SKU: BR.OB-5364-27
Christian Martin Schmidt is laying bare to musical practice the original form of Mendelssohn's epoch-making Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream buried beneath layers of falsified material for the first time.
ISBN 9790004337424. 10 x 12.5 inches.
Autograph lays bare Mendelssohn's Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream To this day, Mendelssohns epoch-making Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream has been performed on the basis of a more than dubious transmission. Neither the first edition of the parts (1832), and certainly not the print of the score based on these parts (1835) go back directly to the autograph of the 17-year-old composer, which is now located in Krakow. No wonder, since Mendelssohn had breezily given away his original at an early date. The result: during his lifetime, versions were published with his authorization, even though they were full of unintended inconsistencies. Yet the autograph of 1826 is unequivocal: it is clear, practically free of irregularities and diverges considerably from the corrupted printed version. Christian Martin Schmidt comes up with occasionally differing musical passages, but above all with logical and compositionally compelling performance instructions, laying bare to musical practice the original form buried beneath layers of falsified material for the first time.Christian Martin Schmidt is laying bare to musical practice the original form of Mendelssohn's epoch-making Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream buried beneath layers of falsified material for the first time.
SKU: BR.PB-5364
ISBN 9790004211458. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.OB-5364-15
ISBN 9790004337387. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.OB-5364-23
ISBN 9790004337417. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.OB-5364-16
ISBN 9790004337394. 10 x 12.5 inches.