Die Erste Walpurgisnacht Op. 60. Ballade Von Goethe Für Soli, Chor Und Orchester. Hrsg John Michael Cooper MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY FELIX

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Preface
Vorwort
Die erste Walpurgisnacht / The First Walpurgis Night:
Dramatis Personae, Text, and Translation
Ouverture: I. Das schlechte Wetter / Bad weather
Ouverture: II. Der Übergang zum Frühling / The translation to springtime
No. 1: Es lacht der Mai / Now May again
No. 2: Könnt ihr so verwegen handeln / Know ye not a deed so daring
No. 3: Wer Opfer heut zu bringen scheut / The man who flies our sacrifice
No. 4: Verteilt euch, wackre Männer hier! / Disperse, disperse ye gallant men!
No. 5: Diese dumpfen Pfaffenchristen / Should our Christian foes assail us
No. 6: Kommt mit Zacken und mit Gabeln / Come with flappers, fire, and clappers
No. 7: So weit gebracht, dass wir bei Nacht / Restrain'd by might, we now by night
No. 8: Hilf, ach hilf mir, Kriegsgeselle / Help, my comrades, see a legion
No. 9: Die Flamme reinigt sich vom Rauch / Unclouded now, the flame is bright

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During the summer of 1799, Goethe wrote his ballad “Die erste Walpurgisnacht ” and asked his friend Carl Friedrich Zelter to set the work to music. Zelter however, felt unable to do this, and so Goethe’s wish was only realised thirty years later by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. The “heavenly words” of the pagan ballads had impressed the composer so much after a visit to Weimar, that he was inspired to set them to music. In 1832 the composition took shape and was performed a year later in the Sing- Akademie in Berlin. Mendelssohn was, however, unhappy with the first version of the work and held it back, until he decided on a radical revision ofthe work ten years after its premiere. Die “erste Walpurgisnacht” was first performed in 1843 in Leipzig in the presence of Robert Schumann and Hector Berlioz, in the form in which the work is still performed today. The publication of this edition by John Michael Cooper, Associate Professor of Music History at the University of North Texas (Denton), makes the work available in an Urtext edition for the first time – in time for the 200th anniversary of the composer’s birth. The edition reflects the latest state of research, and the volume includes a Critical Commentary. - One of Mendelssohn ’s most important secular works in an edition reflecting the latest research findings. - Bärenreiter Urtext for the Mendelssohn anniversary year 2009. - Critical Commentary (Eng) - Full score (BA9072) and vocal score (BA9072-90) for sale; performance material (BA9072-72) available for hire.