Record ID
70330
Accession number
PMC 127
Creator
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847.
Object title
Die erste Walpurgisnacht : Ballade für Chor und Orchester : Op. 60 / gedichtet von Goethe ; componirt von Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.
Uniform title
Erste Walpurgisnacht
Published
Leipzig : F. Kistner ; London : Novello, Ewer, [1844?]
Notes
Secular cantata.
First edition, engraved.
Seven-line printed quotation from a letter from Goethe to Mendelssohn : p.[2]; text of Goethe's poem: p. [1] (2nd group).
Variant of Hoboken-Sammlung, no. 233: t.p. engraved, not lithographed; plate no. 1400. 1403 does not appear on p. [2].
Inscription: An F. David, zu freundlicher Erin[ner]u[n]g[?], Leipzig 16 April [18]44, F MB--T.p.
First edition, engraved.
Seven-line printed quotation from a letter from Goethe to Mendelssohn : p.[2]; text of Goethe's poem: p. [1] (2nd group).
Variant of Hoboken-Sammlung, no. 233: t.p. engraved, not lithographed; plate no. 1400. 1403 does not appear on p. [2].
Inscription: An F. David, zu freundlicher Erin[ner]u[n]g[?], Leipzig 16 April [18]44, F MB--T.p.
Associated names
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832.
David, Ferdinand, 1810-1873, former owner.
David, Ferdinand, 1810-1873, former owner.
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