Chorus (with soloists) and orchestra (choir: SSAATTBB - 2.2.2.2. - 4.2.3.0. - timp - str) SKU: BR.PB-5188
Urtext. Composed by Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn. Edited by Christian R. Riedel. Choir; Softbound. Partitur-Bibliothek (Score Library). I had really become especially fond of this piece, although it is hardly appropriate for the so-called public; but I liked it..., wrote Mendelssohn about his setting of Psalm CXIV.
Psalm; Romantic. Full score. 84 pages. Duration 14'. Breitkopf and Haertel #PB 5188. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.PB-5188). ISBN 9790004209288. 9 x 12 inches.
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy set the 114th Psalm to music during a summer holiday in Horchheim near Koblenz in 1839. After the world premiere at the Leipzig Gewandhaus, he subjected the score to a thorough revision, altered all the tempo markings and, above all, added a considerable amount of new measures. The result satisfied even the notoriously self-critical Mendelssohn: I had really become particularly fond of this piece, even though it is hardly appropriate for the so-called public; but I liked it...The present Urtext edition follows the first prints which were published simultaneously in Leipzig (by Breitkopf & Hartel) and London.