A Midsummer Night's Dream Overture
Concert Overture
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SKU: BA.BA09056
Concert Overture. Composed by Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn. Edited by Christopher Hogwood. This edition: urtext edition. Paperback. Barenreiter Urtext. Urtext Edition. Classical Period. Full score. With introductory text, facsimile copies and critical commentary. Opus 21. 66 pages. Duration 12 minutes. Baerenreiter Verlag #BA09056. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag (BA.BA09056).ISBN 9790006523139. UPC: 9790006523131. 9x12 inches.
Christopher Hogwood’s first ever critical edition of the much performed concert overture goes back for the first time to all the sources. Hogwood examines not only Mendelssohn’s autograph but also the first edition of the score and orchestral parts which Mendelssohn saw to print. A manuscript copy with additional music thought to have been performed under Mendelssohn’s direction, but later deleted, as well as the composer's own two and four-hand piano arrangements of the composition were also taken into account.
As with the other overtures in this series, the score contains a lengthy introduction, a critical commentary and facsimiles.
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