Mendelssohn: The Hebrides and Other Overtures: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave): (Cambridge Music Handbooks Series)

The concert overtures A Midsummer Night's Dream, Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, and The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave), conceived by Mendelssohn before the age of twenty, have ranked amongst the most enduring of the nineteenth-century orchestral repertoire. R. Larry Todd offers a historical, stylistic, and analytical guide to these three remarkable works. His clearly structured and accessible text is supported by a wealth of primary documents, including Mendelssohn's correspondence, memoirs of his friends, and nineteenth-century critical reviews.Todd, R. Larry is the author of 'Mendelssohn: The Hebrides and Other Overtures: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave): (Cambridge Music Handbooks Series)', published 1993 under ISBN 9780521404198 and ISBN 0521404193.