Content
- Allegro vivace
- Andante con moto
- Con moto moderato
- Saltarello: Presto
Urtext based on the Leipzig Mendelssohn Complete Edition
"To all extents and purposes, Germany is the land of artists," wrote Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in 1831 while on his travels in Italy; but Italy, he added, "is the land of art." Indeed, everywhere he went in Italy, the 22-year-old composer found impulses for his symphony ("I have to save the work until I have seen Naples"). But although the country fired his inspiration ("It will be the merriest piece that I have ever written"), he did not actually write the "Italian" Symphony there.
This did not occur until early 1833, when Mendelssohn obtained a commission from London, where he then conducted the first performance in May 1833. Begun the following year, his revision of the piece remained fragmentary, and the composer no longer performed the work himself. The familiar "London version" thus represents the only closed form of the work which the composer presented to the public. This is the version of the "Italian" Symphony that is now appearing in the "Breitkopf Urtext" collection as a pre-print from the Complete Edition.
Instrumentation: 2.2.2.2. – 2.2.0.0. – timp – str
Leipziger Ausgabe (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 612731
LMA Serie I Ochesterwerke Bd. 6
Leipziger Ausgabe der Werke von Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (LMA
LMA I/6 (Gesamtausgabe, Urtextausgabe) (Complete edition, Urtext)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 583505
Urtext nach der Mendelsohn Gesamtausgabe (LMA (komplett) (complete)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 551709
Urtext nach der Mendelsohn Gesamtausgabe (LMA (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 493548
Urtext nach der Mendelsohn Gesamtausgabe (LMA (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 493549
Urtext nach der Mendelsohn Gesamtausgabe (LMA (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 493550
Urtext nach der Mendelsohn Gesamtausgabe (LMA (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 493551
Urtext nach der Mendelsohn Gesamtausgabe (LMA (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 551708
Monographie mit Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten
Book
Item no.: 490918
“Scottish”
Urtext based on the Leipzig Mendelssohn Complete Edition
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 487283
Klavierkonzert
for: 2 pianos
Piano reduction
Item no.: 492562