Breitkopf & Hartel Concert Overture No. 2, The Hebrides Op. 26 MWV P 7 - Mendelssohn/Schmidt - Full Score

Urtext based on the Leipzig Mendelssohn Complete Edition edited by Christian Martin Schmidt

Composer: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (18091847)
Editor: Christian Martin Schmidt
Format: Full Score, Urtext
Instrumentation: Full Orchestra, Score Only

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy wrote the first version of the present Overture in Rome in late 1830, returning to a sketch he had made on the Hebrides in the summer of 1829.

For the world premiere in London on 14 May 1832, however, he produced a fundamentally new version and honed further details until the first edition of the score was issued by Breitkopf & Hartel in 1835.

This first edition and the autograph of the final version it became accessible once again in 2002 are the principal sources for the present edition.