Double bass (2.2.2.2 -
2.2.0.0.oph - timp - str)
SKU: BR.OB-5364-27
Concert Overture No. 1
- Urtext based on the
Leipzig Mendelssohn
Complete Edition.
Composed by Felix
Bartholdy Mendelssohn.
Edited by Christian
Martin Schmidt.
Orchestra; stapled.
Orchester-Bibliothek
(Orchestral Library).
Christian Martin
Schmidt is laying bare to
musical practice the
original form of
Mendelssohn's
epoch-making Overture to
A Midsummer Night's Dream
buried beneath layers of
falsified material for
the first time.
Overture; Romantic. Part.
8 pages. Duration 12'.
Breitkopf and Haertel #OB
5364-27. Published by
Breitkopf and Haertel
(BR.OB-5364-27).
ISBN
9790004337424. 10 x 12.5
inches.
Autograph
lays bare Mendelssohn's
Overture to A Midsummer
Night's Dream To this
day, Mendelssohns
epoch-making Overture to
A Midsummer Night's Dream
has been performed on the
basis of a more than
dubious transmission.
Neither the first edition
of the parts (1832), and
certainly not the print
of the score based on
these parts (1835) go
back directly to the
autograph of the
17-year-old composer,
which is now located in
Krakow. No wonder, since
Mendelssohn had breezily
given away his original
at an early date. The
result: during his
lifetime, versions were
published with his
authorization, even
though they were full of
unintended
inconsistencies. Yet the
autograph of 1826 is
unequivocal: it is clear,
practically free of
irregularities and
diverges considerably
from the corrupted
printed version.
Christian Martin Schmidt
comes up with
occasionally differing
musical passages, but
above all with logical
and compositionally
compelling performance
instructions, laying bare
to musical practice the
original form buried
beneath layers of
falsified material for
the first
time.
Christian
Martin Schmidt is laying
bare to musical practice
the original form of
Mendelssohn's
epoch-making Overture to
A Midsummer Night's Dream
buried beneath layers of
falsified material for
the first time.
A Summer Night
