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Author Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847, composer.

Uniform Title Erste Walpurgisnacht. English & German
Title Die erste Walpurgisnacht : first complete version, 1832-33 / Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy ; edited by John Michael Cooper.

Publication Info. Middleton, Wisconsin : A-R Editions, Inc., 2019.
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (1 score (xxxiv, 327 pages, 4 pages of plates)) : facsimiles + 1 piano-vocal score (118 pages).
notated music ntm rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series Recent researches in the music of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries ; 49
Recent researches in Music Online, 2577-4573
Recent researches in the music of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries ; 49.
Recent researches in music online. 2577-4573
Note Cantata; for solo voices (ATTBar), chorus (SATB), and orchestra.
Language German words by Goethe, with English translation by William Bartholomew; also printed as text (pages xxxi-xxxiii).
Note Edited principally from holograph full score (Kraków, Biblioteka Jagielloska, Mus. ms. autogr. F. Mendelssohn Bartholdy 37).
Full and keyboard-vocal scores are available separately from the publisher.
Includes introduction and critical report.
Summary "The first version of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's secular cantata Die erste Walpurgisnacht (The First Walpurgis Night) was composed during the last years of the composer's decade-long friendship with the work's poet, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It was premiered less than a year after Goethe's death, but despite his enthusiasm for the work Mendelssohn was unable to return to it as a publication project for several years. He did finally revise and publish it in 1842-44, and in that guise it won considerable acclaim, but by then Mendelssohn's professional standing had changed significantly, and so had the work itself. This edition represents the first publication of the young and unestablished Mendelssohn's early setting of Goethe's provocative ballad concerning the eighth-century conflict between paganism and Christianity in Germany. The work is masterful in its own right, and the similarities and differences between it and the later version offer telling insights into Mendelssohn's compositional development. The piano-vocal score incorporates Mendelssohn's own manuscript of a four-hand arrangement of the orchestral introduction." -- Provided by publisher.
Note Online resource (A-R Editions, viewed May 29, 2019).
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Subject Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 -- Musical settings.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJbtrhcCX8cjqWBhh7bcfq
Cantatas, Secular -- Scores.
Cantatas, Secular -- Vocal scores with piano.
Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with orchestra -- Scores.
Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with orchestra -- Vocal scores with piano.
Cantates profanes -- Partitions.
Cantates profanes -- Partitions chant et piano.
Chœurs profanes (Voix mixtes) acc. d'orchestre -- Partitions.
Chœurs profanes (Voix mixtes) acc. d'orchestre -- Partitions chant et piano.
Cantatas, Secular -- Scores
Cantatas, Secular -- Vocal scores with piano
Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with orchestra -- Scores
Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with orchestra -- Vocal scores with piano
Genre/Form Musical settings
Scores
Scores.
Partitions (Musique)
Added Author Bartholomew, William, 1793-1867, translator.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832, author.
Cooper, John Michael, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847. Erste Walpurgisnacht. English & German. Erste Walpurgisnacht. Middleton, Wisconsin : A-R Editions, Inc., 2008. (OCoLC)244824539 9780895796240
Print version: Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847. Erste Walpurgisnacht: Piano-Vocal Score. Middleton, Wisconsin : A-R Editions, Inc., 2008. (OCoLC)245233384 9780895796363
ISBN 9781987201963 (online full score)
1987201965
9780895796240 (print full score)
9781987201970 (online piano-vocal score)
1987201973
9780895796363 (print piano-vocal score)
Standard No. 10.31022/N049 doi
Music No. N049 A-R Editions, Inc. (full score)
N049P A-R Editions, Inc. (piano-vocal score)

 
    
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