Elias, MWV A 25 [score, 布装丁] Peter Griesbacher Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

has the Passion as its theme

This new edition serves the needs of practical performance as well as the interest in the history of the Passion as it has been handed down to the present day

Michael Haydn

An agreeable and easily performable “little sacred concerto” for soprano or mezzo-soprano (e1–e2)

Elias, MWV A 25 [score, 布装丁] Peter Griesbacher Heinrich Ignaz Franz von BiberElijah is regarded as a milestone in Mendelssohns compositional output and as a high point in the oratorio literature of the 19th century. Mendelssohn composed his second great oratorio just a year before his premature death. This excitingly dramatic work also expresses a fervent belief in God, a belief which in the 19th century was no longer self evident. Mendelssohn transposed the visible world of the Old Testament into numerous musical expressive