Die schöne Melusine (The Fair Melusine) Op.32
Concert Overture
Bärenreiter's new editions of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s great orchestral overtures, edited by the internationallyacclaimed conductor and scholar Christopher Hogwood, are pioneer publications of his most important and popular
concert overtures.
This overture in its first version, dedicated to his sisterFanny as a birthday gift in 1833, is published in the new Bärenreiter Urtext edition for the first time together with the later version. This later version which Felix Mendelssohn
Bartholdy saw into print (1836)isalso not available today.
In the new Bärenreiter Urtext edition of “Die schöne Melusine” Christopher Hogwood makes use of all known sources. It contains both versions back-to-back in scoreand parts.
The preface addresses the compositions' genesis and sources. There is also a critical report.
This publication of Mendelssohn’s “Die schöne Melusine” marks the firstinstance of a scholarly-critical edition of one of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s concert overtures.
- Score and large format orchestral parts with both versions back-to-back
- Firstever Critical Edition
- Edited by Christopher Hogwood
| Instrument (fx guitar, sang m.m.) | Orkester |
| Type (fx Instrumentskole o.lign.) | Stemmer |
| Media (fx Bog, CD, DVD m.m.) | Noder |
| Publisher/Producent | Bärenreiter-Verlag |
| Bidragydere | Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Felix(Composer) Hogwood, Christopher(Artist) |
| ISMN | 9790006522637 |