CHANT - CHORALE
ROMANTIQUE

Choir

SKU: BR.SON-442

Complete Works. Composed by Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn. Edited by Clemens Harasim. Linen. Complete Works. Romantic period. Complete Works. 188 pages. Breitkopf and Haertel #SON 442. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.SON-442).

ISBN 9790004803509. 10 x 12.5 inches.

This volume contains three reworkings and orchestrations of religious works by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy which were originally set for smaller ensembles (solo voices, four-part chorus and organ). They were composed at different times and for different occasions, two of them as commissions. The anthem ,,Why, o Lord, delay forever MWV A 19 was originally the sacred vocal piece MWV B 33, published in England in 1841 with the additional title ,,[…] The Thirteenth Psalm, and in Germany in the same year as ,,Lass, o Herr, mich Hilfe finden with the title ,,Drei geistliche Lieder which was composed at the suggestion of the English literature and music lover Charles B. Broadley who also provided the paraphrase of the psalm text. After Mendelssohn had refused an initial request by Broadley to furnish the anthem post festum with an organ prelude, the composer did not want to turn down a second request to orchestrate the work and he even expanded the existing material with a lengthy closing fugue involving additional trumpets and timpani. The ,,Ave Maria MWV B 19 was written in connection with Mendelssohn's appointment as municipal music director, a position which at the same time included the responsibility for the musical organization of church services. The instrumentation of the work with an accompaniment of two clarinets and two bassoons as well as low strings was due to the fact that the organ in Dusseldorf's principal church St. Lambertus was out of order for an extended period of time, and Mendelssohn considered this solution explicitly only as a surrogate for the organ should there be none. A further psalm paraphrase in English, this time by William Bartholomew, of the hymn ,,Hear my prayer MWV B 49 was set to music in early 1844; the orchestration of the organ part commissioned by the distinguished Dublin musician Joseph Robinson was not completed until 1847 so that the premiere finally only took place after Mendelssohn's death. In the further course of the century ,,Hear my prayer would, particularly in the version with organ accompaniment, come to enjoy great popularity in Great Britain and Ireland.

Chorus and piano

SKU: BR.SON-453

Complete Works. Composed by Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn. Edited by Clemens Harasim. Choir; Linen. Complete Works. Romantic period. Complete Works. 700 pages. Breitkopf and Haertel #SON 453. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.SON-453).

ISBN 9790004803639. 10 x 12.5 inches.

This Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy anthology contains 19 sacred vocal works in various choral and sometimes additional solo settings, with organ, harpsichord, or basso continuo accompaniment. Among these pieces composed from 1821 to 1847 are six works that were not published during Mendelssohn's lifetime. Seven of the works presented are each extant in at least one other authorized version that has also been edited here. The occasions and circumstances of their composition vary as much as their musical structures and characteristics: Several were intended for specific performances; others were written from the outset for publication.

Chorus a cappella

SKU: BR.SON-455

Complete Works. Composed by Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn. Edited by Ralf Wehner. Choir; Linen. Complete Works. Romantic period. Complete Works. Breitkopf and Haertel #SON 455. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.SON-455).

ISBN 9790004803653. 9 x 12 inches.

Between 1834 and 1847 Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy composed a total of 28 songs for mixed voices, i.e. for two female (soprano and alto) and two male (tenor and bass) voices each. The pieces are arranged so that they can be sung by four individual singers as well as by smaller ensembles or large choirs. The composer had almost two-thirds of these works published by Breitkopf and Hartel in the collections opp. 41, 48 and 59, combining partly already existing and partly newly composed songs into a loose cycle of six songs each. The purpose of such occasional music was clear to him: ... the most natural music of all is when four people go for a walk together, in the forest, or on a boat, and then immediately carry the music with them and in them. The present volume contains all the songs published and unpublished during his lifetime, as well as their versions, which owe their various performance contexts.

Composed by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847), edited by Michael Cooper. Vocal score for mixed choir and piano accompaniment. With introductory text. Urtext Edition. Text language German & English. Published by Baerenreiter-Ausgaben (German import).

SKU: BR.SON-437

Complete Works. Composed by Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn. Edited by Clemens Harasim. Linen. Complete Works. Romantic period. Complete Works. 392 pages. Breitkopf and Haertel #SON 437. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.SON-437).

ISBN 9790004803158. 10 x 12.5 inches.

Nine variegated Sacred Vocal Works with Orchestra by Mendelssohn have been compiled in this volume. They stem not only from various creative phases of the composer, but also in view of their vocal settings show up marked differences and thus reflect the variety of Mendelssohns creative oeuvre. One shared aspect is that all nine works remained unprinted during the composers lifetime. Only the Lauda Sion achieved celebrity; it was published with the posthumously attributed opus number 73 and took its place next to other choral works by Mendelssohn already in the 19th century. Now published within the Mendelssohn Complete Edition, it boasts a text-critically revised score available in many cases for the first time, and from which impulses for musical practice are sure to arise.