John Michael Cooper

Philological and Textual Issues in Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture, Op. 26

Table 1 - Sources for the Hebrides Overture. ("A . . ." refers to autographs; "C . . ." refers to copies; and "E . . ." refers to editions).

 

Source

Description

  AS1

Sketch of first 21 mm. (New York Public Library)
  AS2

Sketches for development and recapitulation (Bodleian Library, Oxford)
  AR

Rome, 16 December 1830 (Pierpont Morgan Library, New York)
  APf

Autograph arrangement for piano duet dated at end London, 19 June 1832 (Bodleian Library, Oxford)
  AL

Full-score autograph dated at end London, 20 June 1832 (Bodleian Library, Oxford)
  AX

Full-score autograph produced in May-June 1832 (lost)
  CO

Copy of full score in another hand, with autograph entries by the composer (Bodleian Library, Oxford)
  CD

Copy of full score in another hand, with title page linking it to "Rietz" (Sächsiche Landesbibliothek, Dresden)
  CL

Copy of full score in hand of William Goodwin (British Library, London)
  CX

Parts (now lost) produced from AX and used as source for CL
  EPf1

First edition of arrangement for piano four hands (October 1833)
  EP

First edition of orchestral parts (March 1834)
  EPf2

First edition of arrangement for piano solo, by F. Mockwitz (fall 1834)
  ES

First edition of full score (late March 1835)
  ER

Edition published in Mendelssohn’s Werke, ed. Julius Rietz, 1874

 

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  Table 2 - Large-scale Revisions in the Hebrides Overture: Interaulic Textual Correlations (with reference to AR and AL)

 

Revision no.

Measures affected (in terms of familiar version)

AR

CO

CD

CL

APf

AL
1 30-47  X AR AR AL AL  X
2 70-96 X AR AR AL (post correcturam) AL (post correcturam) X (ante and post correcturam)
3 112-23 X (two readings) AR (post correcturam) AR (post correcturam) AL AL X
4 131-47 X AR AR AL (ante correcturam) AL X
5 169-74 X AR AR AL (post correcturam) AL (post correcturam) X (two readings)
6 188-93 X AR AR AL AL X
7 221-22 X AR AR AL AL X
8 231-44 X (two readings) AR (ante correcturam) AR (ante correcturam) AL (post correcturam) AL (post correcturam) X (two readings)
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