The First Walpurgis Night op. 60 -Ballade by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Ballade by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 孟德爾頌菲利克斯 敘事曲 敘事曲 騎熊士版

1799年夏天，歌德寫了一首民謠 "Die erste Walpurgisnacht"，並請他的朋友卡爾-弗裡德里希-澤爾特（Carl Friedrich Zelter）為這首作品譜曲。然而，澤爾特認為自己無法做到這一點，因此歌德的願望直到三十年後才由菲力克斯-孟德爾松-巴托爾迪實現。作曲家在訪問魏瑪後，異教民謠中的 "天籟之音 "給他留下了深刻印象，激發了他將其譜曲的靈感。1832 年，這首作品成型，一年後在柏林的 Sing- Akademie 演出"

作曲家: Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Felix
校訂者: Cooper, John Michael
樂器: scores 總譜
出版社: Bärenreiter 騎熊士(小熊版)
難度: 3
原文簡介:
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 Bartholdy . 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. The publication of this edition by John Michael Cooper, Associate Professor of Music History at the University of North Texas ( Denton ), makes the work available in an Urtext edition for the first time – in time for the 200th anniversary of the composer’s birth. The edition reflects the latest state of research, and the volume includes a Critical Commentary.

- One of Mendelssohn’s most important secular works in an edition reflecting the latest research findings

- Bärenreiter Urtext for the Mendelssohn anniversary year 2009

- Critical Commentary (Eng)