Ouvertüre. Autograph: Biblioteka Jagiellonska Kraków-An enchanted night virtually fragrant dreams floating fairies – the sensory associations evoked and fashioned by the music of Mendelssohn’s overture “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” are almost inexhaustible.Written by the composer in 1826 in a carefree summer spent between the summerhouse and his siblings this is without doubt Mendelssohn’s most popular concert overture.The renowned musicologist Friedhelm Krummacher shows in the introduction how finely Mendelssohn interwove motifs and themes. He also looks into the origins of the work especially a conjectural firstsketch which is reproduced in facsimile in the appendix.To mark the 200th anniversary of Mendelssohn’s birth B renreiter in cooperation with the Biblioteka Jagiellonska Krak w published a high-quality facsimile designed for the bibliophile vividly bringing the composer’s delicate handwriting to life.
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UPC: 888680864095. 5.5x7.5 inches.
Felix Jacob Ludwig Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Overture from 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (PH115) (Orchestra).
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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.