Die erste Walpurgisnacht, MWV D 3 (Score) The Lord will I bless for all my days with the aid of the

with the aid of the appendix it is possible to perform the work in the traditional “mixed version

Umberto Pineschi è professore emerito di organo e composizione organistica dei Conservatori statali di musica “G

and which offers an accomplished choir impressive music both for church services and for concerts

before completing her first year of life

Adagio from Concerto in A minor BWV 593

Die erste Walpurgisnacht, MWV D 3 (Score) The Lord will I bless for all my days with the aid of theGoethes dramatic ballad The First Walpurgis Night inspired Mendelssohn to write a magnificent and vivid portrayal of the conflict between an old heathen community and the new aspirations of Christianization, between belief and superstition on both sides. In 1833 Mendelssohn had his ballad premiered, but he decided to make far reaching revisions before he finally had the work published in 1844. The Carus edition by the leading Mendelssohn scholar R.