Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Elijah MWV A 25
An Oratorio Based on the old Testament Text
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Elijah MWV A 25
An Oratorio Based on the old Testament Text
- Instrumentation 4 Soloists (SATB), Mixed Choir (SATB), 2 Flutes, 2 Oboes, 2 Oboes d'Amore, 2 Violins, Viola and 2 Viole da Gamba
- Composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
- Editor R. Larry Todd
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Difficulty Level
- Edition Instrumental Parts: Wind Instruments and Timpani
- Publisher Carus-Verlag
- Order no. CV40130-09
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Description:
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 before his premature death. This excitingly dramatic work also expresses a fervent belief in God, a belief which in the 19th century was no longer self-evident. Mendelssohn transposed the visible world of the Old Testament into numerous musical expressive possibilities in which Old Testament texts, including psalm texts and commentaries from the words of the Prophets, were shaped into biblical dramas.
'For a subject like Elijah ... the drama must reign supreme ... the characters must be introduced speaking and acting like living people ... a quite vivid world of the sort we find in every chapter of the Old Testament.' Mendelssohn to his librettist
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'For a subject like Elijah ... the drama must reign supreme ... the characters must be introduced speaking and acting like living people ... a quite vivid world of the sort we find in every chapter of the Old Testament.' Mendelssohn to his librettist
This work is now available in carus music, the choir app!