2009 witnessed the bicentennial of the birth of Felix Mendelssohn, but it did not lead to the kind of comprehensive recording of everything that he composed observed with the anniversaries of Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Chopin. This is merely that Mendelssohn wrote a lot of music that belongs to its era and/or original purpose and such endeavors do not travel as well as his established masterworks such as Elijah, The Hebrides overture, the "Italian" Symphony, and other works in that class. His established masterwork ...
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2009 witnessed the bicentennial of the birth of Felix Mendelssohn, but it did not lead to the kind of comprehensive recording of everything that he composed observed with the anniversaries of Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Chopin. This is merely that Mendelssohn wrote a lot of music that belongs to its era and/or original purpose and such endeavors do not travel as well as his established masterworks such as Elijah, The Hebrides overture, the "Italian" Symphony, and other works in that class. His established masterwork in the realm of incidental music for drama is unquestionably Mendelssohn's music for Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream , which dates from 1843 and therefore written a couple of years after he supplied music and choruses for an 1841 production of Sophocles' Antigone in a German version created by Ludwig Tieck and Mendelssohn himself, based on a translation by Johann Jakob Christian Donner. Surprisingly, Mendelssohn considered as his original plan something akin to...
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