Orchestra (2.2.2.2 -
2.2.0.0 - timp - str)
SKU: BR.PB-5522-07
Version 1833 - Urtext
based on the Leipzig
Mendelssohn Complete
Edition. Composed by
Felix Bartholdy
Mendelssohn. Edited by
Thomas Schmidt-Beste.
Orchestra; Softbound.
Partitur-Bibliothek
(Score Library). To all
extents and purposes,
Germany is the land of
artists, wrote
Mendelssohn in 1831 while
on his travels in Italy;
but Italy, he added, is
the land of art.
Everywhere he went in
Italy, the 22-year-old
composer found impulses
for his symphony.
Symphony; Romantic. Study
Score. 96 pages. Duration
28'. Breitkopf and
Haertel #PB 5522-07.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel
(BR.PB-5522-07).
ISBN
9790004212530. 6.5 x 9
inches.
To all
extents and purposes,
Germany is the land of
artists, wrote Felix
Mendelssohn Bartholdy in
1831 while on his travels
in Italy; but Italy, he
added, is the land of
art. Indeed, everywhere
he went in Italy, the
22-year-old composer
found impulses for his
symphony: I have to save
the work until I have
seen Naples. But although
the country fired his
inspiration: It will be
the merriest piece that I
have ever written, he did
not actually write the
Italian Symphony there.
This did not occur until
early 1833, when
Mendelssohn obtained a
commission from London,
where he then conducted
the first performance in
May 1833. Begun the
following year, his
revision of the piece
remained fragmentary, and
the composer no longer
performed the work
himself. The familiar
London version thus
represents the only
closed form of the work
which the composer
presented to the public.
This is the version of
the Italian Symphony that
is now appearing in the
Breitkopf Urtext
collection based on the
Complete Edition.