[Program for the first performance of Mendelssohn's Elias (in English, as Elijah), at the Birmingham Music Festival, on 26 August 1846, conducted by the composer].

Record ID: 
230535
Title: 
[Program for the first performance of Mendelssohn's Elias (in English, as Elijah), at the Birmingham Music Festival, on 26 August 1846, conducted by the composer].
Published: 
Birmingham : Josiah Allen and Son, printers, [1846]
Notes: 

Signed by Mendelssohn and signed and annotated by William Goodwin (librarian for the festival).
The singers' names, entered in Goodwin's hand, are Mme Caradori Allan, Miss M.B. Hawes, Messrs Bassano, W. Williams, M. Williams, Herr Staudigl, Messrs Hobbs, Lockey, Phillips, and Machin, and (in Part 3) Mme Grisi and Sigr. Mario.
At the bottom of p. 16 of the text Goodwin has written that Part 3 comprised the aria "A te fra tanti affanni" from Mozart's Davidde penitente, sung by Mario, and the recitative and aria "Ah! parlate" from Cimarosa's Sacraficio d'Abramo, sung by Grisi.
A note on the program page for Part 3, which also included the chorus "The King shall rejoice" from Handel's Coronation Anthem [Zadok the Priest], says that Moscheles conducted.

Associated names: 

Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847. Elias. Libretto. English.
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847, signer.

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