MENDELSSOHN COMPLETE WORKS Series V (Stage Works) '' Vol. 11: Minor Stage Works

The circumstance that Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy searched all his life in vain for suitable material for an opera easily obscures the fact that he actually produced a considerable output of incidental music '' from the Singspiele of his childhood and youth up to the large-scale works of incidental music of the 1840s for the Prussian king Friedrich Wilhelm IV. also an opera fragment based on the Loreley material has survived.The volume 'Kleinere BUhnenwerke' (Minor stage works) of the complete edition contains '' with the exception of the above-mentioned scores '' all other works that can be attributed to the genre of musical drama, whereby the term 'stage works' is applied in a broad sense, since they also comprise pieces that are on the border between a concertante and a stage performance: several fragments from his childhood years, the contribution, published in 1833, for a festival of the Berlin poet Wilhelm Emil Julius, four works of incidental music for the DUsseldorf theatre (1

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