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    Elijah in Full Score
    Elijah in Full Score
    Elijah in Full Score
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    Elijah in Full Score

    By Felix Mendelssohn

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    One of the last works of German composer Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847), the oratorio Elijah was first performed at England's Birmingham Festival in August 1846. Elated by the audience's response, Mendelssohn wrote jubilantly to his brother: "Not less than four choruses and four airs were encored." Audiences still respond enthusiastically to this splendid oratorio. A century and a half later, Elijah is one of the most frequently performed of all choral works, a favorite of audiences everywhere.
    In the Old Testament, the story is told of how the Prophet Elijah vindicates the religion of the Israelites against the nature-worship of Baal. Mendelssohn imagined Elijah as "strong, zealous and, yes, even bad-tempered, angry and brooding…yet borne aloft as if on angels' wings." His conception of Elijah comes immediately and vividly to life in an inspired series of solo and choral passages filled with compelling drama and rich musical symbolism. Elijah is reprinted here from the definitive German edition, with the text in both German and English.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateOct 29, 2013
    ISBN9780486172583
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      Elijah in Full Score - Felix Mendelssohn

      ELIJAH

      IN FULL SCORE

      Felix Mendelssohn

      FROM THE CRITICAL COMPLETE WORKS EDITION

      EDITED BY JULIUS RIETZ

      DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC.

      NEW YORK

      Copyright

      Copyright © 1995 by Dover Publications, Inc.

      All rights reserved under Pan American and International Copyright Conventions.

      Bibliographical Note

      This Dover edition, first published in 1995, is an unabridged republication of No. 86: Elias, Ein Oratorium nach Worten des alten Testaments von Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Op. 70, originally published by Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig, n.d., as part of Serie 13: Oratorien in the publishers Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s Werke / Kritisch durchgesehene Ausgabe / von Julius Rietz / Mit Genehmigung der Originalverleger. The Dover edition adds lists of background credits, voices and characters and instrumentation, and corrects minor errors in the original contents page.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809–1847.

      [Elias. English & German]

      Elijah : from the critical complete works edition / Felix Mendelssohn ; edited by Julius Rietz. — In full score.

      1 score.

      Oratorio.

      For solo voices (double quartet: SSAATTBB), chorus (SATB), and orchestra. Originally published: Leipzig : Breitkopf & Härtel ; (Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s Werke. Kritisch durchgesehene Ausgabe ; Ser. 13, Nr. 86).

      ISBN 0-486-28504-9 (pbk.)

      1. Oratorios — Scores. 2. Elijah (Biblical prophet) — Songs and music. I. Rietz, Julius, 1812–1877. II. Title.

      M2000.M56E42      1995

      94-41049

      CIP

      M

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501

      ELIJAH

      AN ORATORIO BASED ON THE OLD TESTAMENT TEXT

      OP. 70

      German Text by Julius Schubring

      based on 1 Kings xvii–xix

      English translation by William Bartholomew

      Music by Felix Mendelssohn

      Completed on 11 August 1846, Leipzig

      First performed at the Birmingham (England) Festival

      26 August 1846

      VOICES AND CHARACTERS

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