Scherzo from "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (arr. Blair)
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General Info
Year: 1826 / 1842 /
Duration: c. 4:50
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Manuscript
Cost: Score and Parts - Unknown
Instrumentation
Flute (doubles piccolo & alto)
Oboe
B-flat Soprano Clarinet
Horn in F
Bassoon
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
At two separate times, Felix Mendelssohn composed music for William Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream. First in 1826, near the start of his career, he wrote a concert overture (Op. 21). Later, in 1842, only a few years before his death, he wrote incidental music (Op. 61) for a production of the play, into which he incorporated the existing Overture. The incidental music includes the world-famous Wedding March. The German title reads Ein Sommernachtstraum.
- Program Note from Wikipedia
Media
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State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- United States Army Field Band (Ft. Meade, Md.) Woodwind Ambassadors – 16 December 2015 (2015 Midwest Clinic)
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Scherzo (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Ambrose) (1823/2021)
All Wind Works
- Concertpiece No 1 (tr. Mooren). See: Konzertstück nr. 1
- Concertpiece No 2 (arr. Gee) (1831 / 1964)
- Elegy (arr. Erickson) (1961)
- Fingal's Cave (tr. Mahaffey) (1832/2013)
- Fingal's Cave Overture (tr. Winterbottom) (1832/1910)
- Fingal's Cave Overture (tr. Seredy) (1832/1946)
- Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (arr. Holcombe) (1840/1997)
- Notturno (arr. Hautvast) (1842/2005)
- Konzertstück nr. 1 (tr. Mooren) (1833/1998)
- Konzertstück No. 1 in F minor (tr. Knox) (1833/)
- March, Opus 108 (arr. Stalter) (1841/2011)
- Midsummer Night's Dream (ed. Laurendeau) (1826/1904/1909)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (arr. De Meij) (1826/2022)
- Nottorno. See: Ouvertüre in C für Harmoniemusik
- Ouvertüre in C für Harmoniemusik (ed. Hogwood) (1824/1838/2005)
- Overture for Band (ed. Garofalo) (1824/1838/1998)
- Overture for Band (adapt. Greissle) (1839/1948)
- Overture for Band, Opus 24 (tr. Fred) (1824/1981)
- Overture for Winds (adapt. Boyd) (1824/1981)
- Overture for Winds (ed. Patterson) (1824/2008)
- Piano Concerto in G minor: First Movement (tr. Dahnert) (1831/1954)
- Ruy Blas Overture (tr. Moses-Tobani) (1839/1900)
- Scherzo (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Ambrose) (1823/2021)
- Scherzo from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (arr. Blair) (1842)
- Selections from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (arr. Tarkmann) (1842/1997)
- Spring Song (arr. Laurendeau) (1844/1898)
- Symphony No. 2
- Choral (tr. Aubin) (1840/2011?)
- Trauermarsch (ed. Leidzen) (1836/1954)
- War March of the Priests (1845/2013) (arr. Balfoort)
- War March of the Priests (1845/2013) (ar. Stalter)
Resources
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (Mendelssohn), Wikipedia Accessed 13 December 2015