Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Die erste Walpurgisnacht Ballade von Goethe für Chor und Orchester
Op. 60


A full-color Facsimile of the Autograph Piano-Vocal Score
Held in the Museum of Educational Heritage at Tamagawa University
Commentary by Dr. Hiromi Hoshino (Rikkyo University, Tokyo)

Cloth Bound, Size (320 x 244mm); Tokyo, 2005.
Part I: Facsimile, 48pp., Part II: Commentary, 76pp. Ca. 120pp.
Text in English & Japanese
ISBN: 4-8419-0396-8
Price: 47,500 yen
(Customers in Japan add 5% consumption tax)

This is the facsimile edition of the recently discovered Mendelssohn autograph in Japan. Reproduced here in high quality full-color, the facsimile highlights Mendelssohn’s complex revisions as well as the flow of his beautiful handwriting, including the shades of his ink. Critical commentary is given in both English and Japanese, in which the Mendelssohn scholar, Dr. Hiromi Hoshino examines this autograph (1843) in detailed comparison with other known sources and provides a new insight into Mendelssohn’s compositional process. This autograph of Die erste Walpurgisnacht was presented to the late Spanish cellist, Gaspar Cassadó by his patron, Giulietta Gordigiani von Mendelssohn, and upon Cassadó’s death it was inherited by his Japanese wife, the late pianist Chieko Hara. Subsequently it was donated by her family to Tamagawa University as part of a large collection of Cassadó’s former possessions.

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