Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Nocturno

Bärenreiter Urtext

Edited by Christopher Hogwood
BA 9064 Score* EUR 18.95

BA 9065 Parts* EUR 28.95
Cover of Mendelssohn: Nocturno


Mendelssohn's Nocturno for wind ensemble

In 1826 Mendelssohn composed a Nocturno for a Bad Doberan spa band which consisted of 11 wind players (flute, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, trumpet and bass horn). The composition was later used as the basis for his Overture for Winds op. 24 which requires much larger forces. The Nocturno, a chamber music work in the divertimento tradition, was not published during Mendelssohn’s lifetime; it appears here in a first ever critical edition – in score and parts – edited by Christopher Hogwood.