Edition : Piano Reduction/Vocal Score; Urtext Edition Editor : Seaton, Douglass Binding : paperbound Instrumentation : 2 Soprano solo, 2 Alto solo, 2 Tsolo, 2 Bass solo, Mixed Choir: SSAATTBB, Orchestra Duration : 130' Preface / Vorwort Verzeichnis der Nummern / Index of Numbers Elias / Elijah: Erster Teil / First Part Zweiter Teil / Second Part Anhang / Appendix
SKU: CA.4013008
ISBN 9790007217761. Language: German/English.
Elijah is regarded as a milestone in Mendelssohn's compositional output and as a high point in the oratorio literature of the 19th century. Mendelssohn composed his second great oratorio just a year before his premature death. This excitingly dramatic work also expresses a fervent belief in God, a belief which in the 19th century was no longer self-evident. Mendelssohn transposed the visible world of the Old Testament into numerous musical expressive possibilities in which Old Testament texts, including psalm texts and commentaries from the words of the Prophets, were shaped into biblical dramas. For a subject like Elijah ... the drama must reign supreme ... the characters must be introduced speaking and acting like living people ... a quite vivid world of the sort we find in every chapter of the Old Testament. Mendelssohn to his librettist. Score available separately - see item CA.4013000.
SKU: CA.4013094
Language: German.
SKU: CA.4013019
ISBN 9790007097165. Language: German/English.
Elijah is regarded as a milestone in Mendelssohn's compositional output and as a high point in the oratorio literature of the 19th century. Mendelssohn composed his second great oratorio just a year before his premature death. This excitingly dramatic work also expresses a fervent belief in God, a belief which in the 19th century was no longer self-evident. Mendelssohn transposed the visible world of the Old Testament into numerous musical expressive possibilities in which Old Testament texts, including psalm texts and commentaries from the words of the Prophets, were shaped into biblical dramas. For a subject like Elijah ... the drama must reign supreme ... the characters must be introduced speaking and acting like living people ... a quite vivid world of the sort we find in every chapter of the Old Testament. Mendelssohn to his librettist. Score and parts available separately - see item CA.4013000.
SKU: CA.4013091
SKU: CA.4013005
ISBN 9790007217754. Text language: German/English.
SKU: CA.4013093
SKU: CA.4013002
ISBN 9790007187835. Language: German/English.
SKU: CA.4013092
SKU: CA.322650
ISBN 9790007178024. Key: D major. Language: German.
SKU: CA.322510
ISBN 9790007177959. Key: D major. Language: German.
Arrangement.
SKU: CA.322480
ISBN 9790007158033. Key: G major. Language: German.
SKU: CA.339110
ISBN 9790007311209. Key: G major. German.
Arrangement. Score available separately - see item CA.339100.