SKU: BR.PB-5598-07
ISBN 9790004214954. 6.5 x 9 inches.
A Programmatic Declaration of BeliefFelix Mendelssohn Bartholdy composed his Reformation Symphony for the celebrations marking the 300th anniversary of the Confessio Augustana, the Protestant declaration of faith. Owing to various and only partially explained reasons, there was no performance in 1830, the year in question; it was only two years later that the composer conducted the premiere of his work, now heavily revised, in Berlin. There was only one more performance in Mendelssohn's lifetime, this one conducted by Julius Rietz in Dusseldorf; the composer had since distanced himself from his opus.Conceived for the concert hall, the symphony formulates its theological references through the integration of various motives. This occurs in the finale, for example, in which Mendelssohn quotes the Luther chorale Ein feste Burg in the flute, from where it builds up to a triumphant principal theme. The strong extra-musical aspect must have been one of the reasons for the composer's later avoidance of this score, especially since Mendelssohn was becoming increasingly skeptical about explicitly programmatic music in the instrumental domain. Next to the Dusseldorf performance material of 1837, two scribal copies have been examined for the first time; they transmit the main stages of the version of 1830.
SKU: BR.PB-5581
ISBN 9790004213919. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.OB-5581-16
ISBN 9790004343210. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.OB-5581-23
ISBN 9790004343234. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.OB-5581-27
ISBN 9790004343241. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.OB-5581-19
ISBN 9790004343227. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.OB-5581-30
ISBN 9790004343258. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.OB-5581-15
ISBN 9790004343203. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: HL.51489819
UPC: 840126932737. 6.75x9.5x0.712 inches.
After the first sketches had been put to paper in 1815, Beethoven only finally put the finishing touches to his last completed symphony in 1824. With its extended finale in which soloists and choir perform, building the bridge to the symphonic cantata with their invocation of fraternity, it marks a caesura in the history of the symphony that echoed long into the nineteenth century. The main theme of the ode “To Joy†by Friedrich Schiller, set to music in the final movement, has become one of the most popular melodies in all of classical music and today serves as the official anthem of Europe. Based on the musical text of the Beethoven Complete Edition and furnished with a new preface, this recently prepared edition reflects the latest in Beethoven scholarship. Now,in this study edition, it is available to everyone at a reasonable price and in a handy format.
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