Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

The setting of the 42nd Psalm 'Wie der Hirsch schreit nach frischem Wasser' op. 42 for soloists, choir and large orchestra was composed in 1837. For the present edition, the renowned Mendelssohn speci...

When Mendelssohn learned from his publisher Nikolaus Simrock that he was to receive an additional honorarium for a part of his 'Lieder ohne Worte', he effusively thanked him for this gift. However, th...

Clear the stage for the children! - Playing music together is fun! Good ensemble-playing, however, must be learned at an early age. This series has been designed to support those music teachers who wa...

originally for Violin and Orchestra.

Die Urtext-Ausgabe der 'Lobgesang'-Symphonie berücksichtigt erstmals Stimmenmaterial, das für die ersten Aufführungen in Leipzig erstellt wurde und zur Klärung etlicher unterschiedlicher Lesarten beit...

Lobgesang was written for the 400th anniversary of the invention of moveable typeby Johannes Gutenberg, an event celebrated inLeizig in the Summer of 1840. The work unitesdome of Mendlessohn's most pr...

When Mendelssohn learned from his publisher Nikolaus Simrock that he was to receive an additional honorarium for a part of his 'Lieder ohne Worte', he effusively thanked him for this gift. However, th...

A piano piece in E flat major, with the simple title 'Lied' (song) was Felix Mendelssohn's surprise present to his sister Fanny on her birthday on 14 November 1828. Shortly afterwards she referred to...

Das original für Violine und Klavier geschriebene Jugendwerk Mendelssohns ist besonders prädestiniert für die Darstellung auf der Flöte. Diese Ausgabe basiert auf einer 1832 erschienenen Edition für F...

Ballad by Goethe for soloists, choir and orchestra - piano reduction by the composer Edited by John Michael Cooper Text by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In the summer of 1799, Goethe wrote his ballad Th...

Mendelssohn schrieb das Konzert im Alter von 12 Jahren. Das Werk lässt klassische Vorbilder (Hummel, Dussek u. a.) durchscheinen

Mendelssohn's viola sonata is one of his many early works which remained unpublished in his lifetime. The autograph is dated 'd. 14 Febr. 1824'. Thus Mendelssohn was 15 years old when he completed the...

This standard work of the cello literature has been extracted from volume II of the Complete Works for Violoncello and Pianoforte (BA9096 and BA9097) which was published in 2016. Mendelssohn scholar R...

With 48 compositions, the piano pieces under the title Songs without Words are amongst Mendelssohn Bartholdy's most popular compositions. Andreas Ottensamer has arranged ten of these works for clarine...

At the precocious age of fourteen, Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) scribbled out his Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in E major. He wrote a second, this time longer, double piano concerto the foll...

Seine musikalische Ausbildung erhielt Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy vor allem bei Carl Friedrich Zelter, dem Direktor der Berliner Singakademie. Hier wurde Mendelssohn mit Kirchenmusik konfrontiert, die...

It is hard to imagine today that the music of J. S. Bach fell into oblivion for about half a century after the composer’s death. His successors at the Thomaskirche preferred simpler homophonic composi...

Immediately after completing Paulus in 1836, Mendelssohn considered composing another oratorio. However, a whole decade was to pass before he composed 'Elijah', which is based on the story of the bibl...

Mendelssohn describes to his friend Klingemann the 1840 work as 'a 'symphony for chorus and orchestra'… First three symphonic movements, to which 12 choral- and solo- movements are appendaged; the wor...

In association with the Mendelssohn House, Leipzig, Edition Peters proudly presents the Mendelssohn ‘Souvenir’ edition, containing a selection of piano works intended by Mendelssohn to be played in th...