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Felix Mendelssohn

Mendelssohn: Die erste Walpurgisnacht, MWV D 3, Op. 60

The First Walpurgis Night

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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. 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 of the 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.

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Mendelssohn: Die erste Walpurgisnacht, MWV D 3, Op. 60

From ¥2,800

Description

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. 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 of the 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.

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