Leipzig Edition of the Works of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Complete Works
by Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn
Mixed Choir - Sheet Music

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Soprano voice solo, alto voice solo, tenor voice solo, bass voice solo, mixed choir, orchestra

SKU: BR.SON-419

Complete Works. Composed by Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn. Edited by Annette Birgit and Thein Muller. Linen. Complete Works. Romantic period. Complete Works. 304 pages. Breitkopf and Haertel #SON 419. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.SON-419).

ISBN 9790004803059. 10 x 12.5 inches.

The year 1828 was a Durer Year (300th anniversary of death), and the Berlin Durer Festival was looking for a suitable composer to write the festival cantata. The renowned Carl Friedrich Zelter turned down the offer and recommended his pupil instead, the 18-year-old Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. He accepted, and, within a few weeks, the Festmusik MWV D1, was finished, his first full-scored sacred vocal work. Mendelssohns Festmusik subsequently fell into oblivion despite its much-applauded world premiere. The specific context and the rather wooden libretto most likely proved too prohibitive even though the young composer had given his best. This can now be confirmed for the first time by consulting the new printed edition.