Mendelssohn: Miscellaneous Works for Orchestra

Description

This volume concludes Series I of this edition presenting the composer's orchestral works, and contains all of the orchestral works that are neither included in the volumes with the concert overtures and symphonies, nor are grouped with the concert pieces published in Series II.

Six compositions are presented here, only one of which the composer had published in his lifetime, the Ouvertüre for Harmoniemusik, Op. 24. The appendix includes one 78 measure-long symphony fragment as well as the remaining elements of a short fanfare. A further six works, for which no sheet music has survived, are also documented here, among them, children's symphonies and multiple marches. The volume additionally contains sketches of themes for two symphonies (MWV Z 4c and Z 4f). Sketches for the incomplete Symphony in B-flat Major MWV N 17 can be viewed in the companion edition that presents the work with which that piece is closely connected, the symphony cantata Lobgesang (Hymn of Praise) MWV A 18.

Pieces

• Overture for Winds in C Major, MWV P 1, Op. 24
• Trauermarsch in A Minor ("Funeral March"), MWV P 14, Op. posth. 103
• March in D Major, MWV P 16
• March in E-flat Major, MWV P 17
• March in E-flat Major, MWV P 18
• Professional March in E Major, MWV P 19
• Sinfonie in C Major, MWV N 19
• Tusch in E-flat Major, MWV P 10