A Midsummer Night's Dream Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy / Arr. Gerard Posch

Titel / Title: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Untertitel / Subtitle: Nocturne
Herausgeber / Publisher: Baton Music
Instrumentation: concert band
Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen
Serie / Series: Baton Music orchestral series

Mendelssohn wrote the incidental music, for Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' in 1842, 16 years after he wrote the Overture. It was written to a commission from King Frederick William IV of Prussia. The music became one of Mendelssohn's most popular works. The purely instrumental movements (Overture', Scherzo', Intermezzo', Nocturne', Wedding March', and Bergamask') are often played as a unified suite or as independent pieces at concert performances. The Nocturne' is the seventh movement. Dutch arranger Gerard Posch transcribed this movement for a small Symphonic Band.