Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

Mendelssohn's St. Paul with just seven instead of the usual 18 wind instruments? Thanks to this arrangement for chamber orchestra, a performance with smaller forces is now possible, and presents an at...

Mendelssohn's oratorio Elias (Elijah) was composed at a time when large choral societies were formed and music festivals involving hundreds of singers were all the fashion. 271 singers and 125 orchest...

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...

Sopran solo, Alt solo, Tenor solo, Bass solo, gemCh (SATB), Flöte (2), Oboe (2), Klarinette in b (2), Fagott (2), Serpent, Horn (2), Trommel (2), Posaune (3), Pauke, Streicher, Orgel - Partitur; Urtex...

> Informative Foreword in the score (Ger/Eng) > Text underlay in two languages (Lat/Ger) > Piano reduction by the composer The first great orchestral psalm Mendelssohn's first great orchestral psalm t...

> Informative Foreword in the score (Ger/Eng) > Text underlay in two languages (Lat/Ger) > Piano reduction by the composer The first great orchestral psalm Mendelssohn's first great orchestral psalm t...

Mendelssohn's first large orchestral psalm took almost six years to compose, from the first sketches to the first version of 1830 to the final version of 1835. The work was not premiered until 1838 in...

Mendelssohn’s contemporaries frequently mentioned his 'Hymn of Praise' in the same breath as Beethoven’s Ninth - and often enough viewed it as an imitation. Mendelssohn authority John Michael Cooper,...

Mendelssohn’s contemporaries frequently mentioned his 'Hymn of Praise' in the same breath as Beethoven’s Ninth - and often enough viewed it as an imitation. Mendelssohn authority John Michael Cooper,...

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...

Mendelssohn composed his first oratorio "Paulus" under the influence of the revival of J. S. Bach's "St. Matthew Passion" (1829), which he himself conducted. He integrated choral movements into "Paulu...

Elijah is regarded as a milestone in Mendelssohns compositional output and as a high point in the oratorio literature of the 19th century. Mendelssohn composed his second great oratorio just a year be...

Just one year before his death, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy achieved a success with his oratorio "Elijah", which has made him one of the most popular oratorio composers to this day. With gripping dram...

Just one year before his death, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy achieved a success with his oratorio "Elijah", which has made him one of the most popular oratorio composers to this day. With gripping dram...

The Critical Report on the Oratorio "Elijah" concludes the five-volume edition on this major work by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. It presents - for once in the form of a volume separate from the music...

ELIJAH (German: ELIAS), Op. 70, is an oratorio by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847) that depicts events in the life of the Prophet Elijah as told in the books 1 Kings and 2 Kings of the Old Test...

ELIJAH (German: ELIAS), Op. 70, is an oratorio by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847) that depicts events in the life of the Prophet Elijah as told in the books 1 Kings and 2 Kings of the Old Test...

ELIJAH (German: ELIAS), Op. 70, is an oratorio by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847) that depicts events in the life of the Prophet Elijah as told in the books 1 Kings and 2 Kings of the Old Test...

I had just grown particularly fond of the piece, although it is hardly something for the so-called audience; but I loved it ... Mendelssohn wrote about his setting of the 114th Psalm.

An exciting opener for any concert or festival, the educationally appropriate bowings and fingerings in this original literature will save precious rehearsal time and lead to a professional sound. A p...

An exciting opener for any concert or festival, the educationally appropriate bowings and fingerings in this original literature will save precious rehearsal time and lead to a professional sound. A p...