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Mendelssohn wrote the incidental music, Op. 61, for A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1842, 16 years after he wrote the overture. It was written to a commission from King Frederick William IV of Prussia. Mendelssohn was by then the music director of the King's Academy of the Arts and of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. [8]
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy play written by William Shakespeare in about 1595 or 1596. The play is set in Athens, and consists of several subplots that revolve around the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta. One subplot involves a conflict among four Athenian lovers.
A Midsummer Night's Dream, with a text taken from A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) and narration adapted from the play by Evans Mirageas and Seiji Ozawa Overture, Op. 21 (1826) 1 (11:55) Overture, Allegro di molto; Incidental Music, Op. 61 (1843) 2 (4:47) No. 1, Scherzo, Allegro vivace
Felix Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" in C major, written in 1842, is one of the best known of the pieces from his suite of incidental music (Op. 61) to Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream. It is one of the most frequently used wedding marches, generally being played on a church pipe organ.
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, is an opera with music by Benjamin Britten and set to a libretto adapted by the composer and Peter Pears from William Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream. It was premiered on 11 June 1960 at the Aldeburgh Festival , conducted by the composer and with set and costume designs by Carl Toms . [ 1 ]
The title track off of “Barbie,” last summer’s runaway blockbuster movie, Dua Lipa’s “Dance the Night” is the essential song to kick off your summer songs playlist and promises to ...
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Edwin Landseer, Scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream (1851) Titania adoring Bottom.Oil on canvas by Henry Fuseli, c. 1790. Nick Bottom is a character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream who provides comic relief throughout the play.