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Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Elias/Elijah, ed. Christian Martin Schmidt (Wiesbaden, Leipzig, Paris: Breitkopf & Härtel, 2008). Full score xi + 449pp. Piano vocal score viii + 248pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2011

Douglass Seaton
Affiliation:
The Florida State University

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References

1 Bartholdy, Felix Mendelssohn, Elias, , op. 70, ed. Christian Martin Schmidt, in Leipziger Ausgabe der Werke von Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Ser. VI, Geistliche Vokalwerke, Bd. 11 (Wiesbaden, Leipzig, Paris: Breitkopf & Härtel, 2009).Google Scholar

2 The leaf in question is in the Bodleian Library in Oxford, in the ‘Green Books’ collection of Mendelssohn's correspondence, shelfmark Margaret Deneke Mendelssohn c. 27, fol. 7.

3 Altogether, in addition to the Ewer and Simrock first editions themselves, these include:

(1) the manuscript piano score, Bodleian Library, Oxford, shelfmark Margaret Deneke Mendelssohn c.39;

(2) an autograph piano score of no. 23, mm. 47–118, Bodleian Library, shelfmark Margaret Deneke Mendelssohn c. 51, fols. 45-46 (related to item 1);

(3) an autograph four-hand piano arrangement of the oratorio's Overture, Library of Congress, Hans Moldenhauer Archive;

(4) proof pages for Ewer's first English edition of the piano score with Mendelssohn's corrections, Joseph Regenstein Library, University of Chicago;

(5) proofs for Simrock's first German edition of the piano score with Mendelssohn's corrections, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, Cary Collection;

(6) a proof copy with Mendelssohn's emendations of Simrock's first German edition of the piano score, Lila Acheson Wallace Library, The Juilliard School, New York.