Antigone, Op.55 (Mendelssohn, Felix)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 8 sections
Composition Year 1841
Genre Categories Incidental music; Theatrical Works; For narrator, 2 voices, 2 male choruses, orchestra; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring a narrator; Scores featuring the tenor voice; Scores featuring the bass voice; Scores featuring male chorus; Scores featuring the orchestra; For voices and chorus with orchestra; German language

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Editor Julius Rietz (1812–1877)
Publisher. Info. Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdys Werke, Serie 15
Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1874-82. Plate M.B. 735.
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Vocal Scores

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Language German
Publisher. Info. Leipzig: C.F. Peters, n.d.(ca.1895). Plate 8367
Reprinted Frankfurt, n.d.(after 1950).
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Arrangements and Transcriptions

Selections

2. Vieles Gewaltige for Piano (Reinecke)
See: Transcriptionen für Pianoforte (No.9)
4. O Eros for Piano (Reinecke)
See: Transcriptionen für Pianoforte (No.22)
6. Bacchus-Chor for Piano (Reinecke)
See: Transcriptionen für Pianoforte (No.7)

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General Information

Work Title Antigone
Alternative. Title Muzik zu Antigone des Sophokles
Composer Mendelssohn, Felix
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No. Op.55 ; MWV M 12
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. IFM 9
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 8 sections:
Overture (C minor, 101 bars)
1. "Strahl des Helios, schönstes Licht" (C major, 165 bars)
2. "Vieles Gewaltige lebt" (A major, 116 bars)
2a. "Dort naht vom Tor Ismene sich uns" (5 bars)
3. "Ihr Seligen, deren Geschick nie kostet' Unheil!" (F major, 189 bars)
4. "O Eros, Allsieger im Kampf" (G major, 182 bars)
5. "Noch toset des Sturmes Gewalt" (E minor, 165 bars)
6. Bacchus-Chor: "Vielnamiger! Wonn' und Stolz der Kadmos-Jungfrau" (D major, 207 bars)
7. "Hier kommt er ja selbst" (E♭ major, 186 bars)
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. 1841
First Performance. 1841-10-28 in Potsdam, Schloßtheater (first production)
narrator, voices, male chorus, orchestra, Felix Mendelssohn (conductor)

1842-03-05 in in Leipzig (first public production)

First Publication. 1841 - Leipzig: Kistner // London: J. J. Ewer & Co.
Librettist Johann Jakob Christian Donner (1799–1875) and August Böckh (1785–1867)
after Sophocles
Language German
Dedication Friedrich Wilhelm IV
Average DurationAvg. Duration 55 minutes
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Romantic
Piece Style Romantic
Instrumentation narrator, voices (tenor, bass), double male chorus, orchestra
InstrDetail
2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons
2 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani, strings
External Links WIkipedia article
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