Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix. (1809–1847). Lobgesang. Eine Symphonie-Cantate nach Worten der heiligen Schrift. Op. 52. . Leipzig: Breitkopf & Hartel. [1841]. First edition. Partitur, full score. 223 pp. Engraved folio. [PN] 6563. Three-quarter green calf, green marbled boards. In very fine condition. This copy from the library of the organist and composer, Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911). Catalogue of the Mendelssohn Papers in the Bodleian Library, Oxford Vol.III, No.452. Hirsch IV, 851.
"Mendelssohn composed the Lobgesang somewhat hurriedly in 1840 for Leipzig's celebration of the four-hundreth anniversary of printing by movable type - an invention seen as symbolizing the end of the Middle Ages, thus inspiring the theme of light triumphing over darkness in the Lobgesang." (Jeffrey Sposato, Notes 09/98)
"Mendelssohn composed the Lobgesang somewhat hurriedly in 1840 for Leipzig's celebration of the four-hundreth anniversary of printing by movable type - an invention seen as symbolizing the end of the Middle Ages, thus inspiring the theme of light triumphing over darkness in the Lobgesang." (Jeffrey Sposato, Notes 09/98)
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix. (1809–1847). Lobgesang. Eine Symphonie-Cantate nach Worten der heiligen Schrift. Op. 52. . Leipzig: Breitkopf & Hartel. [1841]. First edition. Partitur, full score. 223 pp. Engraved folio. [PN] 6563. Three-quarter green calf, green marbled boards. In very fine condition. This copy from the library of the organist and composer, Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911). Catalogue of the Mendelssohn Papers in the Bodleian Library, Oxford Vol.III, No.452. Hirsch IV, 851.
"Mendelssohn composed the Lobgesang somewhat hurriedly in 1840 for Leipzig's celebration of the four-hundreth anniversary of printing by movable type - an invention seen as symbolizing the end of the Middle Ages, thus inspiring the theme of light triumphing over darkness in the Lobgesang." (Jeffrey Sposato, Notes 09/98)
"Mendelssohn composed the Lobgesang somewhat hurriedly in 1840 for Leipzig's celebration of the four-hundreth anniversary of printing by movable type - an invention seen as symbolizing the end of the Middle Ages, thus inspiring the theme of light triumphing over darkness in the Lobgesang." (Jeffrey Sposato, Notes 09/98)