Felix Mendelssohn, Prelude Op. 104a, No. 2 (MWV U 123)
Translations
Overview
The manuscript of this prelude has been lost, and the surviving sources (an earlier draft manuscript and the first several editions, all posthumous) raise questions that cannot be answered with certainty, because it is not known which 19th-century editors had access to the lost manuscript. The critical edition presented here attempts to deal with these problems in a consistent way, as well as to enable the performer to evaluate the merits of other solutions. The performance edition suggests fingerings.
Editions
Edited by Benjamin Geer. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence.
- Critical edition (PDF), ISMN 979-0-707186-01-5
- Performance edition (PDF), ISMN 979-0-707186-02-2
Facsimiles of Sources
- A1 (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin). Shelfmark Mus.ms.autogr. Mendelssohn Bartholdy, F. 28. Copyright © 2020 Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. This reproduction is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.
- ES1 (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin). Shelfmark N.Mus. 5420-1. Copyright © 2020 Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. This reproduction is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.
- EN (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford. Shelfmark Deneke 256 (15). Copyright © 2020 Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford. This reproduction is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.
- ES2 (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Shelfmark N.Mus. 5419-1. Copyright © 2020 Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. This reproduction is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.
- EB (IMSLP). This reproduction is in the public domain.