ExclusiveMendelssohn: A Midsummer Nights Dream Incidental Music Op 61 Mwv M 13 Scherzo

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The Concert Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream was composed in the summer of 1826 (at the age of 17) after Mendelssohn had read Shakespeare's comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream in the Schlegel-Tieck translation. The composer completed the work on 26 August 1826, and when it was published in 1835, it was given the opus number 21 and dedicated to the Prussian Crown Prince and later King Frederick William IV. After the premiere at Abraham Mendelssohn's home at Leipziger Strasse 3, the former Prussian residence, the first public performance took place on 20 February 1827 in Stettin under the direction of Carl Loewe.

The inspiration for the incidental music came after a successful performance of Sophocles' Antigone at the Neues Palais in Potsdam with incidental music by Mendelssohn (op. 55). Frederick William IV asked the composer, then music director of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, to write further incidental music for performances at the Neues Palais. In late 1842, Mendelssohn added instrumental interludes, songs, choruses and melodramas to the existing overture. He used the translation by August Wilhelm von Schlegel, whose translations of Shakespeare's plays into German were authoritative at the time. The first performance of the incidental music to A Midsummer Night's Dream to an invited audience took place on 14 October 1843, conducted by Ludwig Tieck. The public premiere took place in Berlin on 18 October 1843.
The music to William Shakespeare's comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of the composer's most popular and frequently performed works and has achieved worldwide fame, particularly for the Wedding March it contains. The concert overture lasts about 13 minutes, and the entire incidental music lasts about 47 minutes.

The video was shot in Switzerland on Lake Thun and edited by Wenjing Ma. (We can't remember who set up the camera and pressed the record button. It could have been Christian or Simone Schlegel, sorry)





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