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The concert overtures A Midsummer Night's Dream, Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, and The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave), conceived by Mendelssohn before the age of twenty, have ranked amongst the most enduring of the nineteenth-century orchestral repertoire. R. Larry Todd offers a historical, stylistic, and analytical guide to these three remarkable works which secured for Mendelssohn no small measure of his fame. After placing the overtures in the context of Mendelssohn's astonishing compositional development during the 1820s, the volume disentangles the complex history of their creation and considers in turn their style and formal structure, their contents as programme music, aspects of their orchestration and their reception and influence. All this is supported by a wealth of primary documents, including Mendelssohn's correspondence, memoirs of his friends, and nineteenth-century critical reviews.

Ouverture --- Overture --- Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix , --- Œuvre --- --Ouvertures --- --Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, --- Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix --- Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, --- Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix , 1809-1847 --- Overture. --- Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, --- Overtures --- Dramatic music --- Orchestral music --- History and criticism

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Composers --- Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, --- Mendelʹson-Bartolʹdi, Feliks, --- Mendelʹson, Feliks, --- Men-te-erh-sung, F., --- Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Jakob Ludwig Felix, --- Bartholdy, Felix Mendelssohn-, --- Mendelssohn, Felix, --- Mendelssohn, F. --- Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, F. --- Mendelson-Bartoldi, F. --- Bartolʹdi, Feliks Mendelʹson-, --- Mendelson-Bertoldi, Feliḳs, --- Bertoldi, Feliḳs Mendelson-, --- Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Jacob Ludwig Felix, --- מנדלסון־ברתולדי, פליקס --- מענדעלסאהן, פעליקס, --- Mendelsohn-Bartholdy, Felix, --- Germany --- Biography --- Music --- History and criticism --- Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix --- Mendelssohn, Felix --- Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Jakob Ludwig Felix

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First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Piano music --- History and criticism. --- Music --- muziekbeoefening --- pianisten --- pianomuziek --- muziek --- anno 1800-1899

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Music --- History and criticism. --- Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, --- Hensel, Fanny Mendelssohn, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Criticism and interpretation.

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