Loreley, Op.98 (Mendelssohn, Felix)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 7 movements and fragments (3 published)
Composition Year 1847
Genre Categories Operas; Theatrical Works; For voices, mixed chorus, orchestra; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring mixed chorus; Scores featuring the orchestra; For voices and chorus with orchestra; German language

Sheet Music

Full Scores

 Complete Score
#51794 - 29.40MB, 88 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 2283×⇩ - CBo

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CBo (2010/1/2)

Editor Julius Rietz (1812-1877)
Publisher. Info. Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdys Werke, Serie 15
Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1877. Plate M.B. 123.
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 Extracts
#782713 - 15.06MB, 136 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 8×⇩ - Feduol

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Feduol (2022/5/19)

Publisher. Info. Holograph manuscript, n.d.
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Misc. Notes Biblioteka Jagiellońska, Kraków (PL-Kj): Mus. ms. autogr. Mendelssohn 44/11
This file is part of the Submission Project.
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Vocal Scores

 Complete Score
#23914 - 3.16MB, 40 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 1045×⇩ - Hobbypianist

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Hobbypianist (2008/11/5)

Publisher. Info. Leipzig: C.F. Peters, n.d.[1878]. Plate 6018.
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 Complete Score
#332909 - 4.12MB, 56 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 118×⇩ - Afp0815

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Afp0815 (2014/7/7)

Language English
Translator William Bartholomew (1793–1867), English text
Publisher. Info. London: Novello, n.d. Plate 215.
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Misc. Notes This file is part of the Sibley Mirroring Project.
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 Complete Score
#774374 - 3.06MB, 42 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 12×⇩ - Alexander Reuter

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Alexander Reuter (2022/4/6)

Publisher. Info. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, n.d. Plate V.A. 143.
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 2. Ave Maria / "Hark! The Sound of Evening Bells."
#176498 - 0.89MB, 4 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 284×⇩ - Schissel

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Schissel (2012/2/7)

Language English / Latin / Italian
Translator Unidentified translator, English text
Publisher. Info. New York: J.L. Peters, 1876. Plate 11512-4.
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Misc. Notes Soprano solo, soprano chorus, altos, accompaniment.
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 3. "A Vintage Song"
#272237 - 0.29MB, 5 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 130×⇩ - Olmsted

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Olmsted (2013/3/5)

Publisher. Info. London: Novello, n.d.(ca.1870s).
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Misc. Notes TTBB, piano. In English, written by William Duthie (fl. 1860).
(An adaptation rather than a translation?)

Final six measures of music added after Mendelssohn's death.
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General Information

Work Title Die Lorelei
Alternative. Title
Composer Mendelssohn, Felix
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No. Op.98, MWV L 7
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. IFM 101
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 7 movements and fragments from Act 1:
  1. from Scene 2, Duet (31 bars, unfinished)
  2. from Scene 3, Ave Maria (41 bars)
  3. from Scene 4, Winzerchor (21 bars)
  4. from scene 7, March (115 bars, unfinished)
  5. from Scene 7, Andante (61 bars, unfinished)
  6. from Scene 7, Horch, von dem Strom (90 bars, unfinished)
  7. from Scene 8, Finale (465 bars)
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. 1847
First Publication. 1852 - Leipzig/Winterthur // London (first act finale)
1868 - Leipzig/Winterthur // London (Ave Maria and Winzerchor)
Librettist Emanuel Geibel
Language German
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Romantic
Piece Style Romantic
Instrumentation voices, chorus, orchestra
InstrDetail
Cast
The Archbishop of Mainz
Bertha, Countess of Stahleck, his niece (soprano)
Count Palatine Otto (bass)
Hubert, ferryman and innkeeper (bass)
Leonore, his daughter (soprano)
Reinald, a gleeman (tenor)
Leopold, the Count Palatine's seneschal

Mixed Chorus (SSAATTBB)

knights, vassals of the Count Palatine, ladies, priests, wine-growers, peasants

Orchestra

piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons
4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones
timpani, bass drum, cymbals, strings
External Links Orchestral parts, finale to the first act, at Göttingen
Ave Maria section mss copy, at Luzern
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