Item Number: BA.BA9079
Text language: Latin/German. Piano reduction by the composer.
For almost six years Mendelssohn worked on his first great orchestral psalm, from the initial sketches and the first version of 1830 to the final version of 1835. Its premiere at the Leipzig Gewandhaus did not take place until 1838.
Unlike his other orchestral psalms, Mendelssohn took the Latin words from the Vulgate as his principal text which stems from Psalm 113. When he later prepared his own German translation, he made use of Psalm 115 from the Luther Bible.
This edition by the leading Mendelssohn authority John Michael Cooper incorporates all the relevant sources. In accordance with the work's genesis, the vocal parts are underlaid with the Latin text and the German text underneath.
--Informative Foreword in the score (German/English)
--Text underlay in two languages (Latin/German)
--Piano reduction by the composer.
