Mendelssohn: The Hebrides and Other Overtures

by R. Larry Todd

The concert overtures A Midsummer Night's Dream, Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, and The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave), conceived by Mendelssohn before the age of twenty, have ranked amongst the most enduring of the nineteenth-century orchestral repertoire. R. Larry Todd offers a historical, stylistic, and analytical guide to these three remarkable works which secured for Mendelssohn no small measure of his fame. After placing the overtures in the context...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521407648
• ISBN13: 9780521407649
• Release Date: September 1993
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.6" x 8.6"