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Die erste Walpurgisnacht : first complete version, 1832-33 / Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy ; edited by John Michael Cooper.
- Format:
- Musical score
- Author/Creator:
- Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847, composer.
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832, author.
- Series:
- Recent researches in the music of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries ; 49.
- Recent researches in Music Online. 2577-4573.
- Recent researches in the music of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries ; 49
- Recent researches in Music Online, 2577-4573
- Standardized Title:
- Erste Walpurgisnacht. English & German
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832--Musical settings.
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von.
- Cantatas, Secular--Scores.
- Cantatas, Secular.
- Cantatas, Secular--Vocal scores with piano.
- Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with orchestra--Scores.
- Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with orchestra.
- Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with orchestra--Vocal scores with piano.
- Genre:
- Scores.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 score (xxxiv, 327 pages, 4 pages of plates)) : facsimiles + 1 piano-vocal score (118 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Middleton, Wisconsin : A-R Editions, Inc., 2019.
- Language Note:
- German words by Goethe, with English translation by William Bartholomew; also printed as text (pages xxxi-xxxiii).
- Summary:
- "The first version of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's secular cantata Die erste Walpurgisnacht (The First Walpurgis Night) was composed during the last years of the composer's decade-long friendship with the work's poet, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It was premiered less than a year after Goethe's death, but despite his enthusiasm for the work Mendelssohn was unable to return to it as a publication project for several years. He did finally revise and publish it in 1842-44, and in that guise it won considerable acclaim, but by then Mendelssohn's professional standing had changed significantly, and so had the work itself. This edition represents the first publication of the young and unestablished Mendelssohn's early setting of Goethe's provocative ballad concerning the eighth-century conflict between paganism and Christianity in Germany. The work is masterful in its own right, and the similarities and differences between it and the later version offer telling insights into Mendelssohn's compositional development. The piano-vocal score incorporates Mendelssohn's own manuscript of a four-hand arrangement of the orchestral introduction." -- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Cantata; for solo voices (ATTBar), chorus (SATB), and orchestra.
- Edited principally from holograph full score (Kraków, Biblioteka Jagiellońska, Mus. ms. autogr. F. Mendelssohn Bartholdy 37).
- Includes introduction and critical report.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Online resource (A-R Editions, viewed May 29, 2019).
- OCLC:
- 1103573152
- Publisher Number:
- N049 A-R Editions, Inc. (full score)
- N049P A-R Editions, Inc. (piano-vocal score)
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