Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809 – 1847)
Hymn of Praise op. 52 MWV A 18
A Symphony-Cantata after Texts from the Holy Scriptures Bärenreiter Urtext
3 soloists (SST), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
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Details
- For
- 3 soloists (SST), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
- Product Type
- Choir score (Urtext edition)
- Author / Composer
- Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
- Product number
- 695979
- Languages
- german, english
- Release Year
- 2020
Description
English Text by Charles Henry Monicke as approved by the composer
Mendelssohn’s contemporaries frequently mentioned his Hymn of Praise (Lobgesang) in the same breath as Beethoven’s Ninth – and often enough viewed it as an imitation. Mendelssohn authority John Michael Cooper, in his extensive Introduction to this new Urtext edition, shows that the comparison is completely unfounded: with this work Mendelssohn created a new genre to which he gave the name “symphony-cantata”. Later he added ...