Overture in C major Op.101 Trumpet Overture

The Overture in C major, the so-called “Trumpet Overture” with its brass fanfare was composed in 1826 and a second version with considerable revisions was made in 1833 for performances in Düsseldorf andLondon.

The Overture in C major was first published posthumously in 1867.

Christopher Hogwood’s Urtext edition takes into account both Mendelssohn’s autograph now held in the Bibliothèquenationale in Paris which has two endings as well as the London manuscript copy made for the performance there in 1834;
this manuscript contains three separate trombone parts in Mendelssohn’s hand.  ThenewBärenreiter edition presents the work as found in Mendelssohn’s autograph for the first time.  Christopher Hogwood also documents the
development of the overture with facsimiles from the 1826version.

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