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FELIX MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY
Sinfonie
A-dur
op.90 “Italienische”
mit Kommentar von John M. Cooper und Hans-Günter Klein
[Symphony,
op.90, “Italian”, A major]
first page (1833
version)
Wiesbaden, 1997. 24 x 34 cm, 2 vols, 258 pp.
Begun during a particularly ebullient visit to Italy—”This is Italy!
And what I, ever since I started to think, have thought to be the
greatest joy of living, has now begun, and I am enjoying
it”—Mendelssohn’s Symphony in A major was composed over a period of
about 2 years. The manuscripts reproduced for this full-color facsimile
edition (to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the composer’s death)
show a conflicted composer: a “complete” autograph score of 1833, plus
11 autograph pages known as the “Oxford” fragments (removed from the
complete score prior to the 1833 premiere), and a “revised” 1834
autograph score of movements II to IV, which were never finished nor
incorporated into the symphony. Despite general acclaim by the public
and critics alike, Mendelssohn was troubled by certain aspects of the
work. Introduction in Eng-Ger. Beautiful bibliophile edition printed on
laid paper and bound with green paper boards (as the original),
with pasted label. $275
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