John Michael Cooper

Philological and Textual Issues in Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture, Op. 26

Captions

Example 1a

Hebrides Overture, mm. 1-9: familiar version (copy text: Source ER).

Example 1b

Hebrides Overture, mm. 1-9: Fassung letzter Hand (copy text: Source ES [see discussion below]).

Example 2

Hebrides Overture: AR pp. 5-6 (copy text: AR).

Example 3a

Hebrides Overture, end of exposition as it existed ca. 25 February 1831 (copy text: AR, with recourse to CO).

Example 3b

Hebrides Overture, end of exposition as it existed ca. June 1832 (copy text: CL, with recourse to AL).

Example 3c

Hebrides Overture, piano-duet version of end of exposition as it existed ca. June 1832 (copy text: APf)

Example 4a

Hebrides Overture, development section as it existed ca. 25 February 1831 (copy text: AR, with recourse to CO).

Example 4b

Hebrides Overture, development section as it existed ca. June 1832 (copy text: AL, with recourse to CL).

Example 5a

Hebrides Overture, retransition as it existed ca. 25 February 1831 (copy text: AR, with recourse to CO).

Example 5b

Hebrides Overture, retransition as it existed ca. May-June 1832 (copy text: ante correcturam of AL, with recourse to CL).

Example 6

Hebrides Overture, extension of principal subject in recapitulation, as it existed ca. 25 February 1831 (copy text: AR, with recourse to CO).

Example 7a

Hebrides Overture, coda as it existed 1830-31 (corresponding to mm. 226-44 of familiar version).

Example 7b

Hebrides Overture, coda as revised in AL (mm. 226-44).

Example 8a

Hebrides Overture, end of coda as it existed ca. 25 February 1831 (copy text: AR, with recourse to CO).

Example 8b

Hebrides Overture, end of coda as it existed ca. June 1832 (copy text: AL, with recourse to CL).

Figure 1

Letter from Mendelssohn to his family, 7-11 August 1829, with draft for opening of Hebrides Overture (New York Public Library).

Figure 2

Letter from Mendelssohn to Fanny Hensel, 25 February 1832, with characterization of “Italian musical script” (Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS M. Deneke Mendelssohn d.13, no. 42).

Figure 3

First page of earliest full-score autograph of Hebrides Overture (Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, Collection of Robert Owen Lehman).

Figure 4

AR p. 14, with inscription in blue pencil by Ignaz Moscheles

Zoom: inscription in blue pencil by Ignaz Moscheles

Figure 5

First page of AL (Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS M. Deneke Mendelssohn d. 71, fol. 2r).

Figure 6

Fol. 17r of CO, with “italienische Notenschreibesprache” (Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS M. Deneke Mendelssohn d. 58).

Figure 7

AR pp. 16-17, with deleted measures between mm. 114 and 115.

Figure 8

AR p. 33, with cross-hatched measure between mm. 221 and 222.

Figure 9

AR p. 3 (courtesy of Robert Owen Lehman collection, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York).

Figure 10

AR p. 29 (courtesy of Robert Owen Lehman collection, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York).

Figure 11

AL fol. 18r (courtesy of Bodleian Library, Oxford).

Figure 12

AL fol. 12v (courtesy of Bodleian Library, Oxford).

Table 1

Sources for the Hebrides Overture.

Table 2

Large-scale Revisions in the Hebrides Overture: Interaulic Textual Correlations (with reference to AR and AL)

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