Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Midsummer Night's Dream: SSAA: Vocal Score

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.

A Midsummer Night's Dream-Hawkes School Series 101 (score & parts). Mendelssohn-b.

A Midsummer Night's Dream / The Hebrides-2 Mendelssohn classics in Eulenburg Study Score format complete with high quality NAXOS recordings.

Mendelssohn was 34 when the premiere of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream 'in 1843 took place. 'Dance Of The Clowns' is a part from this wonderful work but is also in the overture to be heard. He wrote the famous overture at the age of 17 (!).

Mendelssohn was 34 when the premiere of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream 'in 1843 took place. 'Dance Of The Clowns' is a part from this wonderful work but is also in the overture to be heard. He wrote the famous overture at the age of 17 (!).

Christopher Hogwood’s first ever critical edition of the much performed concert overture goes back for the first time to all the sources. Hogwood examines not only Mendelssohn’s autograph but also the first edition of the score and orchestral parts which Mendelssohn saw to print. A manuscript copy with additional music thought to have been performed under Mendelssohn’s direction but later deleted as well as the composer's own two and four-hand piano arrangements of the composition were also taken into account.As with the other overtures in this series the score contains a lengthy introduction a critical commentary andfacsimiles.First ever critical edition of this concert overture.Additional music included in score and parts stemming from a source used by Mendelssohn for a performance of the work.Full score & parts (BA9056) and study score format 22.5 x 16.5cm (TP396) available for sale

5 ORCHESTRAL PIECES INSTRUMENTATION : ORCHESTRA VERSION : STUDY SCORE CONTENU : PREFACE - VORWORT - I. SCHERZO. ALLEGRO VIVACE - II. INTERMEZZO. ALLEGRO APPASSIONATO - III. NOTTURNO (NOCTURNE). ANDANTE TRANQUILLO - IV: HOCHZEITSMARSCH (WEDDING MARCH). ALLEGRO VIVACE - V. EIN TANZ VON RÜPELN (DANCE OF THE CLOWNS). ALLEGRO DI MOLTO NOMBRE DE PAGES : 126 COLLECTION : EULENBURG MINIATURE SCORES FORMAT : ETP SMALL