A Midsummer Night's Dream, incidental music, Op. 61 (Mendelssohn, Felix)
| Title | Musik zu ''Ein Sommernachtstraum'' |
| Alternative title | A Midsummer Night’s Dream |
| Creators | Felix Mendelssohn, composer August Wilhelm Schlegel, librettist |
| Opus | MWV M 13 |
| Instrumentation | voices, mixed chorus and orchestra |
| Number of movements | 14 |
| Keys | — |
| Composed | 1842 |
| First published | 1844 |
| Dedication | Heinrich Conrad Schleinitz |
| Tempo markings | — |
| Metronome markings | — |
| Time signatures | — |
| Average duration (sec) | — |
| Number of measures | — |
| Composition types | Incidental music |
| Language | German |
| Period | Romantic |
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Sections
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Arrangements
| Details | Section | Arranged for | Arranger |
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| View | Complete | piano | — |
| View | Selections | small orchestra | Wilhelm Pötzsch |
| View | Selections | violin, cello and piano | Renaud de Vilbac August Schulz Heinrich Plock |
| View | Selections | violin and piano | Henri Ernst |
| View | Selections | piano 4 hands | — |
| View | Selections | organ | Jørgen Ellegård Frederiksen |
| View | Scherzo (No.1) | 2 violins, viola and cello | Owen Chen |
| View | Scherzo (No.1) | flute and piano | Wilhelm Speidel |
| View | Scherzo (No.1) | 2 flutes | Joseph-Henri Altès |
| View | Scherzo (No.1) | 2 pianos | Ottilie Sutro |
| View | Scherzo (No.1) | piano 4 hands | — |
| View | Scherzo (No.1) | piano | Sergei Rachmaninoff |
| View | Scherzo (No.1) | piano | Théodore Ritter |
| View | Scherzo (No.1) | piano | Sigismond Thalberg |
| View | Notturno (No.7) | military band | Robert Stark |
| View | Notturno (No.7) | wind octet and double bass | Patrick Clements |
| View | Notturno (No.7) | horn and piano violin and piano |
Karl Stiegler |
| View | Notturno (No.7) | horn and piano | Karl Stiegler |
| View | Notturno (No.7) | viola alta and piano | Herman Ritter |
| View | Notturno (No.7) | guitar | Francisco Cimadevilla |
| View | Notturno (No.7) | piano | Moritz Moszkowski |
| View | Wedding March (No.9) | concert band | Welligton Sousa |
| View | Wedding March (No.9) | wind octet and double bass | Patrick Clements |
| View | Wedding March (No.9) | 2 violins, viola and cello | Jakub Kowalewski |
| View | Wedding March (No.9) | 2 violins, viola and cello | Yoon Jae Lee |
| View | Wedding March (No.9) | 2 violins, viola and cello | Stephen Partridge |
| View | Wedding March (No.9) | violin, cello and piano | Hans Sitt |
| View | Wedding March (No.9) | accordion, violin and cello | Arnold den Teuling |
| View | Wedding March (No.9) | piano and harmonium | Renaud de Vilbac |
| View | Wedding March (No.9) | harp and piano | Elias Parish-Alvars |
| View | Wedding March (No.9) | 2 pianos | Franz Xaver Chwatal |
| View | Wedding March (No.9) | violin and piano | Friedrich Hermann |
| View | Wedding March (No.9) | 2 violins | Nina Pečar |
| View | Wedding March (No.9) | piano 4 hands | — |
| View | Wedding March (No.9) | harp | Domenico Sodero |
| View | Wedding March (No.9) | organ | William Thomas Best |
| View | Wedding March (No.9) | organ | Théodore Dubois |
| View | Wedding March (No.9) | organ piano |
Pierre Gouin |
| View | Wedding March (No.9) | organ | Samuel P. Jackson |
| View | Wedding March (No.9) | organ | Christopher Edwin Willing |
| View | Wedding March (No.9) | piano | Henry Clough-Leighter |
| View | Wedding March (No.9) | piano | Alfred Jaëll |
| View | Wedding March (No.9) | piano | Frank Henri Klickmann |
| View | Wedding March (No.9) | piano | Charles Lenschow |
| View | Wedding March (No.9) | piano | Luis Félix Parodi Ortega |
| View | Wedding March (No.9) | piano | — |
| View | Marcia funebre (No.10) | organ | Pierre Gouin |
Scores
Recordings/Performances
| Details | Type | Section | Arranged for | Files (click to listen) |
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| View | MIDI | Wedding March (No.9) | For Violin, Cello and Accordion (Teuling) | Synthesized Performance |
| View | MIDI | Wedding March (No.9) | For Organ (Dubois) | Synthesized Performance |
| View | MIDI | Wedding March (No.9) | For Organ (Gouin) | Synthesized performance (organ) |
| View | MIDI | Marcia funebre (No.10) | — | Synthesized performance (organ) |
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