A Midsummer Night's Dream – Overture MWV P 3 Op. 21 [wind parts] Hermann Dechant solemn scoring suggests that the

solemn scoring suggests that the work was composed for a worship service on the occasion of the birth of the Electoral Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony

“For a subject like Elijah

as Matthew Arnold puts it “of human misery”

The work underwent a long period of gestation and first attained its final form in 1963

A Midsummer Night's Dream – Overture MWV P 3 Op. 21 [wind parts] Hermann Dechant solemn scoring suggests that theChristian Martin Schmidt is laying bare to musical practice the original form of Mendelssohn's epoch making Overture toA Midsummer Night's Dream buried beneath layers of falsified material for the first time. Autograph lays bare Mendelssohn's Overture to A Midsummer Nights Dream To this day, Mendelssohns epoch making Overture to A Midsummer Nights Dream has been performed on the basis of a more than dubious transmission. Neither the first edition of