Symphony in C major, MWV N 19 (Mendelssohn, Felix)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	2 movements
Composition Year	1842-1846 ca.
Genre Categories	Sketches; For orchestra; Scores featuring the orchestra

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Arrangements and Transcriptions

Short Score (Taylor)

Excerpt from 2 movements
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Arranger	Franklin Taylor (1843-1919)
Publisher. Info.	London: Macmillan and Co., 1880.
Copyright	Public Domain [tag/del]
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General Information

Work Title	Symphony in C major
Alternative. Title
Composer	Mendelssohn, Felix
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No.	MWV N 19
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.	IFM 177
Key	C major
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	2 movements
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp.	1842-1846 ca.
First Publication.	1880 – London: Macmillan and Co.
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Romantic
Piece Style	Romantic
Instrumentation	orchestra

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Excerpts from the opening of the first movement and a section believed to be part of the slow movement were published in short score in A Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Vol.2 (1880). The manuscript full score was in the possession of Mendelssohn’s oldest daughter. This work is an arrangement of the Symphony in C major (sketches) N 19 which Grove 1980 reports as existing as an autograph manuscript.

Todd refers to this symphony in Mendelssohn: A Life in Music, pages 492–493 – the C major fragment exists in manuscript (and reduced in Grove II as above) and is mentioned in letters from February to April 1845. The Mendelssohn Werkverzeichnis lists letters as early as 1842 that mention the symphony.

It seems that the original of the symphony (however orchestrated it is (?)) is in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

Symphonies by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Early Sinfonias for strings Sinfonia I in C major (1821) Sinfonia II in D major (1821) Sinfonia III in E minor (1821) Sinfonia IV in C minor (1821) Sinfonia V in B♭ major (1821) Sinfonia VI in E♭ major (1821) Sinfonia VII in D minor (1821–22)	Early Sinfonias for strings Sinfonia VIII in D major (1822) Sinfonia IX in C major (1823) Sinfonia X in B minor (1823) Sinfonia XI in F major (1823) Sinfonia XII in G minor (1823) Sinfonia XIII in C minor (1823)	Symphonies for full orchestra Symphony in D major (rev. of Sinfonia VIII, 1822) Symphony No.1 in C minor, Op.11 (orig. titled Sinfonia XIII, 1824) Symphony No.2 in B♭ major, Op.52 (“Lobgesang”, 1840) Symphony No.3 in A minor, Op.56 (“Scottish”, 1841–42) Symphony No.4 in A major, Op.90 (“Italian”, 1833) Symphony No.5 in D minor, Op.107 (“Reformation”, 1829–30) Symphony in B♭ major (unfinished fragment, 1839) Symphony in C major (unfinished fragment, 1845)