Elijah (Elias)
An Oratorio Based on the old Testament Text
by Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn
4-Part - Sheet Music

Orchestra SATB vocal soli, SATB choir, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, ophicleide, timpani, 2 violins, viola, cello, contrabass, organ - Grade 4

SKU: CA.4013000

An Oratorio Based on the old Testament Text. Composed by Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn. Edited by R. Larry Todd. This edition: urtext. Awards / Prizes: Deutscher Musikeditionspreis "Best Edition". Awards / Prizes: Deutscher Musikeditionspreis "Best Edition"; Carus sheet music series: Vocal scores XL. German title: Elias. Innovative practice aids, Oratorios. Full score. Composed 1845-1846. MWV A 25, Op. 70. Duration 130 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 40.130/00. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.4013000).

ISBN 9790007087784. Language: German/English.

Elijah is regarded as a milestone in Mendelssohn's compositional output and as a high point in the oratorio literature of the 19th century. Mendelssohn composed his second great oratorio just a year before his premature death. This excitingly dramatic work also expresses a fervent belief in God, a belief which in the 19th century was no longer self-evident. Mendelssohn transposed the visible world of the Old Testament into numerous musical expressive possibilities in which Old Testament texts, including psalm texts and commentaries from the words of the Prophets, were shaped into biblical dramas. "For a subject like Elijah ... the drama must reign supreme ... the characters must be introduced speaking and acting like living people ... a quite vivid world of the sort we find in every chapter of the Old Testament." Mendelssohn to his librettist.