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Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Ein Sommernachtstraum. Ouvertüre op.21 A Midsummer Night's Dream. Overture op.21 Autograph, Biblioteka Jagiellońska, Kraków Commentary by / Kommentar von Friedhelm Krummacher Documenta Musicologica II/41 27 x 37 cm, xiii, 60, 57 pp. ISBN 978-7618-2116-9 Reduced Price: $249 (reg.$440) |
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Full-color
facsimile of the elegant fair copy autograph score
(formerly Deutsche Staatsbibliothek, Mus. ms.
autogr. Mendelssohn 21), and monochrome
reproduction of a fragmentary autograph score
(Bodleian Library, Ms. Deneke-Mendelssohn B 5)—the
only surviving sources of the overture. This work
of youthful genius was written in 1826 during a carefree summer
spent at the summer house among his siblings at a time when the
composer became immersed in the works of
Shakespeare through Schegel and Tieck
translations. 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. This is without doubt
Mendelssohn’s most popular concert overture. |
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The score is
innovative as well, for example, in the ordering
in the instruments—proceeding woodwinds,
percussion, strings, with the bass fiddle at the
bottom—, though peculiar for the time, coincides
with modern accepted convention. The autograph
score also calls for the rare "corno inglese di
basso", usually substituted by the ophecleide,
bass bassoon or bass trombone. Deluxe edition
issued on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of
the composer's birth. Handsome binding with
decorative paper boards, burgundy linen spine, and
pasted title etikette. Commentary in
Eng-Ger-Jap. Special OMI price
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$465 A "BÄRENREITER FACSIMILE"—Synonymous for authenticity and high quality. |
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