Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: New Edition Of The Complete Organ Works, Volume 1 (1820-1845)

SKU: HL.49020883

ISBN 9783254002433. German.

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy gehort zu den Komponisten, deren Rang nicht immer nach unvoreingenommenen Massstaben bestimmt wurde und die einem Schubladendenken zum Opfer fielen. In jungerer Zeit allerdings entdecken kompetente Autoren bislang unberucksichtigt gebliebene Aspekte seines Wirkens, ohne die so mancher musikgeschichtliche Strang nicht hatte fortgefuhrt werden konnen.Mit neuen Kapiteln uber Mendelssohns Erziehung zum burgerlichen nichtjudischen Menschen, uber die kompositorische Wechselwirkung zwischen den Geschwistern Felix und Fanny, uber die Bedeutung der Sonntagsmusiken im Hause der Mendelssohns auf die kompositorische Entwicklung Felix', sowie neuen asthetischen und sozialhistorischen Erkenntnissen, aktualisierter Diskographie und aktualisiertem Werkverzeichnis unter Berucksichtigung der Funde neuer Autographe.

SKU: BR.SON-419

ISBN 9790004803059. 10 x 12.5 inches.

The year 1828 was a Durer Year (300th anniversary of death), and the Berlin Durer Festival was looking for a suitable composer to write the festival cantata. The renowned Carl Friedrich Zelter turned down the offer and recommended his pupil instead, the 18-year-old Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. He accepted, and, within a few weeks, the Festmusik MWV D1, was finished, his first full-scored sacred vocal work. Mendelssohns Festmusik subsequently fell into oblivion despite its much-applauded world premiere. The specific context and the rather wooden libretto most likely proved too prohibitive even though the young composer had given his best. This can now be confirmed for the first time by consulting the new printed edition.

SKU: 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.

SKU: BR.SON-435

ISBN 9790004803134. 9 x 12 inches.

Works for male chorus or mens voices a cappella run through Mendelssohns oeuvre like a fine red thread. Whoever is only familiar with the six Lieder op. 50, which were printed during the composers lifetime, will be surprised that the Mendelssohn Work Catalogue lists altogether 38 such pieces written between 1820 and 1847. Mendelssohn apparently wrote a number of individual vocal pieces for private occasions, commissions, or as gifts to male vocal societies. Some of them are being published for the first time ever in this volume. The works are so conceived that they can be performed both by solo voices and by a chorus.

Consists of two subvolumes and a supplement.

SKU: BR.SON-411

Awarded the German Music Edition Prize 2006 (SON  411-413)

ISBN 9790004802380. 9 x 12 inches.

The Leipziger Ausgabe der Werke von Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy pursues the goal of making accessible to the public in an adequately scholarly form all of Mendelssohn's accessible compositions, letters and writings, along with all other documents of his artistic oeuvre. A considerable number of Mendelssohn's works are still waiting to be published; many others have been published in an unsatisfactory manner.Though the new Mendelssohn Complete Edition follows the ten volumes of the Leipziger Mendelssohn Ausgabe (LMA) published by the Deutscher Verlag fur Musik (DVfM) in Leipzig since 1961, it sees itself as a fundamentally new conception which reflects the present-day standard of scholarly editions.The first volumes of the new Complete Edition were presented in Leipzig on 3 November 1997 at Mendelssohn Festtage in Leipzig.SON 411 - 413 have been awarded the German Music Edition Prize 2006.

Editorial Board: Christian Martin Schmidt (chairman), Peter Ward Jones, Friedhelm Krummacher, R. Larry Todd, Ralf Wehner; research associates: Ralf Wehner, Clemens Harasim, Birgit Muller.

SKU: BR.SON-413

Awarded the German Music Edition Prize 2006 (SON  411-413)

ISBN 9790004802519. 9 x 12 inches.

The Leipziger Ausgabe der Werke von Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy pursues the goal of making accessible to the public in an adequately scholarly form all of Mendelssohn's accessible compositions, letters and writings, along with all other documents of his artistic oeuvre. A considerable number of Mendelssohn's works are still waiting to be published; many others have been published in an unsatisfactory manner.Though the new Mendelssohn Complete Edition follows the ten volumes of the Leipziger Mendelssohn Ausgabe (LMA) published by the Deutscher Verlag fur Musik (DVfM) in Leipzig since 1961, it sees itself as a fundamentally new conception which reflects the present-day standard of scholarly editions.The first volumes of the new Complete Edition were presented in Leipzig on 3 November 1997 at Mendelssohn Festtage in Leipzig.SON 411 - 413 have been awarded the German Music Edition Prize 2006.

Editorial Board: Christian Martin Schmidt (chairman), Peter Ward Jones, Friedhelm Krummacher, R. Larry Todd, Ralf Wehner; research associates: Ralf Wehner, Clemens Harasim, Birgit Muller.