An Edition of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's Incidental Music 'Antigone' (op. 55)

费利克斯·门德尔松·巴托尔迪的附带音乐“安提戈涅”版本（作品 55）

• 批准号: AH/G005133/1
• 负责人: Thomas Schmidt
• 金额: $ 4.13万
• 依托单位: Bangor University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2009 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FG005133%2F1
• 关键词: Edition; Felix; Mendelssohn; Bartholdy; Incidental

The proposed project will provide the scholarly world as well as the world of music as a whole with the first-ever critical edition of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's Incidental Music for the Sophoclean tragedy 'Antigone' (1841). Such an edition is most timely because research interest in 18th/19th-century incidental music (i.e., music accompanying an otherwise spoken play) both by musicologists and by drama scholars is burgeoning: two recent musicological research projects in Germany and several books have been specifically devoted to this genre.Mendelssohn's 'Antigone' occupies a special place in this context as it stands at the beginning of King Frederick Wilhelm IV of Prussia's attempts to revive classical drama in all its aspects. Written for eight-voice male chorus with orchestra and consisting of an overture, eight choruses and a number of melodramatic passages (instrumental music accompanying spoken dialogue), Mendelssohn's composition (together with its sister work, 'Oedipus at Colonos') is a fascinating and in many ways unique attempt to reconcile classical drama with 19th-century style and sensibilities. However, all previous research has been concerned with contextual questions and in some cases aspects of musical style, text setting etc.The provision of a definitive text is all the more urgent as the source situation is far from straightforward. No full-score autograph is extant - instead, there are sketches, drafts, a short-score autograph of the choruses, a piano-vocal reduction, two separate autographs of the overture and a number of contemporary handwritten score copies (partly authorised by the composer). Mendelssohn himself only supervised the publication of the piano-vocal score - the full score was published after his death. Under these circumstances, a critical edition taking into account all available sources will almost certainly result in substantial revisions to the musical text as is available to us thus far. The edition will consist of two parts - the piano-vocal score and the full score; both will take into account and document all contemporary sources, including an edition of all sketches, drafts, preliminary versions and deleted passages, as well as a detailed introduction outlining the work's genesis and performance history.In the introduction to the Critical Report, the edition will also address the overarching question of the reliability and authority of 'approved' copies where the autograph is lacking. Specifically, it will use external and internal criteria to determine the reliability of each copy. The methodology developed by way of this process will be usable for any subsequent edition of works with similar source situations.The availability of a reliable text will also facilitate performances of this work - Breitkopf & Härtel will publish a study score and performance parts with the main Complete Edition volume. This will include a 'practical' score for singers and actors, combining the choruses in piano-vocal score and the full text of the drama (with the Donner and the Boeck version presented synoptically as the two authorised versions) as they appear in the play. This has never been done for editions of incidental music and will enormously facilitate performances.This coincides with increased interest by theatres to experiment with performances including 18th/19th-century incidental music, as well as a increased presence of Mendelssohn's works in the concert hall. The 200th anniversary of Mendelssohn's birth in 2009 will further increase public interest. Riccardo Chailly (director of the Leipzig Gewandhaus orchestra), has indicated his interest in staging a performance based on my new edition, and possibly a CD release based on this performance (only one commercial recording exists to date).

拟议中的项目将为学术界和整个音乐界提供费利克斯·门德尔松·巴托尔迪为索福克利悲剧《安提戈涅》(1841年)创作的首个批评版《偶然音乐》。这样的版本是最及时的，因为音乐学家和戏剧学者对18/19世纪偶发音乐(即伴随着其他口语的戏剧的音乐)的研究兴趣正在迅速增长：德国最近的两个音乐学研究项目和几本书都专门致力于这一流派。门德尔松的《安提戈涅》在这方面占据了特殊的地位，因为它是普鲁士国王弗雷德里克·威廉四世试图从各个方面复兴古典戏剧的开始。门德尔松的作品(与其姊妹作品《科隆诺斯的俄狄浦斯》一起创作)由序曲、八个合唱团和一些情节戏剧段落(伴奏口述对话的器乐)组成，是一种引人入胜的独特尝试，在许多方面都是协调古典戏剧与19世纪风格和情感的独特尝试。然而，以前的所有研究都关注语境问题，在某些情况下还涉及音乐风格、文本设置等方面。由于来源情况远不直接，提供明确的文本变得更加迫切。没有完整的乐谱签名存在--取而代之的是素描、草稿、合唱团的短乐谱签名、钢琴嗓音缩减、序曲的两个单独的签名和一些当代手写乐谱副本(部分由作曲家授权)。门德尔松本人只是监督了钢琴声乐乐谱的出版，完整的乐谱是在他去世后出版的。在这种情况下，考虑到所有可用的来源的批判性版本几乎肯定会导致对我们目前所能获得的音乐文本的实质性修改。版本将由两部分组成--钢琴声乐配乐和完整配乐；两者都将考虑并记录所有当代来源，包括所有草稿、草稿、初步版本和删除的段落的版本，以及概述作品起源和表演历史的详细介绍。在关键报告的引言中，版本还将解决最重要的问题，即签名缺乏的经批准的副本的可靠性和权威性。具体地说，它将使用外部和内部标准来确定每一份副本的可靠性。通过这一过程开发的方法将适用于具有类似来源情况的任何后续版本的作品。可靠文本的可用性也将促进这部作品的表演--Breitkopf&Härtel将出版研究分数和表演部分，以及主要的完整版卷。这将包括为歌手和演员准备的一份实用配乐，将钢琴声乐配乐中的合唱与该剧的全文(唐纳和博克版本作为两个授权版本概括性地呈现)相结合。伴奏音乐的版本从来没有这样做过，这将极大地促进表演。这与剧院对试验包括18/19世纪伴奏音乐在内的表演的兴趣增加，以及门德尔松的作品在音乐厅出现的增加不谋而合。2009年是门德尔松诞辰200周年，这将进一步提高公众的兴趣。里卡多·查利(莱比锡Gewandhaus交响乐团指挥)表示，他有兴趣根据我的新版演出上演一场演出，并可能根据这场演出发行CD(到目前为止只有一张商业录音)。

项目成果

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Symphony in A major [op. 90 ('Italian')], 1834 version

费利克斯·门德尔松·巴托尔迪，A 大调交响曲 [作品。

• 发表时间: 2011
• 作者: Schmidt-Beste, T.

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Symphony in A major [op. 90 ('Italian')], 1833 version

费利克斯·门德尔松·巴托尔迪。

• 发表时间: 2010
• 作者: Schmidt-Beste, T.

Hoffentlich viel besser als die zur Antigone'. Zu Mendelssohns Vertonung der griechischen Trag?die in ?dipus in Kolonus.

Hoffentlich viel besser als die zur Antigone。

• 发表时间: 2013
• 期刊: Mendelssohn-Studien
• 作者: Schmidt-Beste, T.