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After the new conception of the 'Leipzig Edition of the Works of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy' (LMA) initially produced volumes of juvenilia, it was followed in 2000 by 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', a w...

It was common practice in the 19th century to arrange symphonies for chamber music ensembles and thus make them more playable. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy arranged his C minor symphony op. 11, which i...

Leipziger Ausgabe der Werke von Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Gesamtausgabe Serie V (Bühnenwerke) Band 9 Gesamtausgabe (Koch, Armin) - Serie V (Bühnenwerke) - Vol. 9: 'Athalia' by Racine (op. 74) MWV M...

The four great concert overtures in the versions intended by Mendelssohn for printing To this day, Mendelssohn's epochal Midsummer Night's Dream overture is performed according to a more than question...

Felix Mendelssohn’s impressive Symphony in D minor MWV N 15, known as the 'Reformation Symphony', is a masterpiece of immense musical depth, solemn dignity, and dramatic expression. Incorporating famo...

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy lived in the heyday of male singing. The composer had come into contact with the genre early on through his teacher Carl Friedrich Zelter and the Berlin Liedertafel, which...

The great social and musical-aesthetic upheavals of the first half of the 20th century had a decisive impact on the biography of Hanns Eisler as well as on his compositions and writings. The significa...

Sibelius' beginning as a symphonist. The content of Jean Sibelius' first orchestral works is influenced by Finnish legends (Kullervo, En saga). Even a few years later, he initially planned a multi-mov...

Virtanen, Timo - 2 versions, 1 first printing 'Cassazione op. 6' continues to be considered a Sibelius secret: both the hitherto unpublished version with large orchestra and the version with reduced i...

JSW - Jean Sibelius Complete Works (Ed.: National Library of Finland and Sibelius Society of Finland)

JSW - Jean Sibelius Sämtliche Werke (ed.: National Library of Finland and Sibelius Society of Finland) Lemminkäinen's 'Happy End' The four orchestral scores that come together in 'Lemminkäinen op. 22'...

Ed.: National Library of Finland and Sibelius Society of Finland The 'American' tone poems Jean Sibelius wrote his last two tone poems Aallottaret op. 73 and Tapiola op. 112 as commissioned works for...

In the end, Jean Sibelius wrote his Violin Concerto more or less twice. The differences between the original version of 1903/04, which the composer self-critically withdrew immediately after the first...

It seems hard to believe today that Bedrich Smetana initially met with repeated rejection when he wanted to promote the 'Moldau', which was extremely popular in the concert hall from the very beginnin...

With his Symphony No. 1 in E minor, Op. 39, Jean Sibelius created a stunning masterpiece brimming with Nordic expansiveness, passionate drama, and poignant melancholy. From the solitary, plaintive cla...

Faust' Overture for the first time in the original text The question 'Why music to such accomplished poetry?' moved Schumann long and intensely. In 1844 his compositional approach to Goethe's 'Faust'...

Hrsg.: Internationale Hanns Eisler Gesellschaft (Rittig-Becker, J./Schmidt, Chr. M.) Aus Eislers Jugendzeit Die Publikation der mehr als 40 Liedkompositionen, die der Hanns Eisler im Alter von 19 bis...

Insgesamt komponierte Jean Sibelius weit über 100 Lieder für Singstimme und Klavier. Band 4 enthält zum großen Teil Erstdrucke. Diese Lieder sind in der Regel unbekannt, nur wenige waren in Abschrifte...

'Der schwierige Spagat zwischen den Erfordernissen praktischer Brauchbarkeit und philologischer Akribie ist auf einem Niveau gegelückt, welches die Messlatte für vergleichbare Bemühungen beängstigend...