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Athalia von Racine . Op. 74. No. 2 der nachgelassenen Werke. Klavierauszug ohne Worte . Pr. 2 Thlr. 10 Ngr. Piano solo

1852Best.-Nr. 36207Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel PN 7884 1852. Folio. Original publisher's yellow wrappers. 1f. recto title verso blank 3-51 i blank pp. Engraved. Overture with plate number 7899 from the piano-vocal score. With publisher's catalog "Publications Nouvelles pour le Pianoforte" to verso of lower wrapper. Wrappers somewhat worn soiled and split. Slightly worn and browned; occasional foxing. First Edition. MWV M16 p. 213. Scarce 1 copy only located in the U.S. at the Carnegie Library Pittsburgh. Not in Krause Catalogue of the Mendelssohn Papers in the Bodleian Library or Hoboken. Mendelssohn composed his incidental music for a production of Jean Racine's Athalie 1691 commissioned by King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia. It was staged for the court at the Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin on 1 December 1845. "Though little-known today the music for Athalie merits performance. Especially striking are Mendelssohn's paraphrases of chorales including Ach Gott vom Himmel sieh' darein and in a scene in which the high priest Joad describes a vision of the New Jerusalem Vom Himmel hoch. "One of the most gifted and versatile prodigies Mendelssohn stood at the forefront of German music during the 1830s and 40s as conductor pianist organist and above all composer. His musical style fully developed before he was 20 drew upon a variety of influences including the complex chromatic counterpoint of Bach the formal clarity and gracefulness of Mozart and the dramatic power of Beethoven and Weber. Mendelssohn's emergence into the first rank of 19th-century German composers coincided with efforts by music historiographers to develop the concept of a Classic-Romantic dialectic in 18th and 19th-century music. To a large degree his music reflects a fundamental tension between Classicism and Romanticism in the generation of German composers after Beethoven." R. Larry Todd in Grove Music Online. Breitkopf & Härtel [PN 7884] unknown

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MENDELSSOHN, Felix 1809-1847ABAA

Athalia von Racine . Op. 74. No. 2 der nachgelassenen Werke. Klavierauszug ohne Worte . Pr. 2 Thlr. 10 Ngr. Piano solo

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MENDELSSOHN, Felix 1809-1847Biblio.com

Athalia von Racine . Op. 74. No. 2 der nachgelassenen Werke. Clavierauszug nach der Original-Partitur bearbeitet von J. Rietz . Pr. 5 Thlr. Piano-vocal score

1851Best.-Nr. 36208Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel PN 7899 1851. Folio. Original publisher's brown wrappers with titling within decorative border. 1f. recto title verso blank 3-93 i blank pp. Engraved. Text in German and French. Scharfenberg & Luis New York handstamp to blank lower margin of upper wrapper and again to lower margin of title along with publisher's stamp. Wrappers quite worn and chipped; spine reinforced with tape. Slightly browned; edges of some leaves chipped. First Edition later issue. MWV M16 p. 213. Krause 8. Catalogue of the Mendelssohn Papers in the Bodleian Library III 316. Not in Hoboken. Mendelssohn composed his incidental music for a production of Jean Racine's Athalie 1691 commissioned by King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia. It was staged for the court at the Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin on 1 December 1845. "Though little-known today the music for Athalie merits performance. Especially striking are Mendelssohn's paraphrases of chorales including Ach Gott vom Himmel sieh' darein and in a scene in which the high priest Joad describes a vision of the New Jerusalem Vom Himmel hoch. "One of the most gifted and versatile prodigies Mendelssohn stood at the forefront of German music during the 1830s and 40s as conductor pianist organist and above all composer. His musical style fully developed before he was 20 drew upon a variety of influences including the complex chromatic counterpoint of Bach the formal clarity and gracefulness of Mozart and the dramatic power of Beethoven and Weber. Mendelssohn's emergence into the first rank of 19th-century German composers coincided with efforts by music historiographers to develop the concept of a Classic-Romantic dialectic in 18th and 19th-century music. To a large degree his music reflects a fundamental tension between Classicism and Romanticism in the generation of German composers after Beethoven." R. Larry Todd in Grove Music Online. Breitkopf & Härtel [PN 7899] unknown

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MENDELSSOHN, Felix 1809-1847ABAA

Athalia von Racine . Op. 74. No. 2 der nachgelassenen Werke. Clavierauszug nach der Original-Partitur bearbeitet von J. Rietz . Pr. 5 Thlr. Piano-vocal score

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