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Symphony in A major ('Italian')

After two performing editions published in the past few years, this is the first fully source-critical edition of Mendelssohn's Symphony in A major, the 'Italian', in two volumes: the (complete) version of 1833 and the (incomplete) revision of 1834. The edition includes substantial introductions describing the genesis, history and reception of both versions, also full transcriptions and commentary of all drafts and deleted passages, primarily extant in the form of 11 leaves removed by the composer from the score during the process of composition and revision in the spring of 1833. The dating and placement of these drafts within the work as a whole is fully elucidated in the critical report, arguing for some major revisions to the work's genesis as previously described by John Michael Cooper and Wulf Konold. The same applies to the deletions from the second versions, which are fully published and discussed for the first time. The publisher (Breitkopf) has also published a conductor's score and parts of the symphony, and a number of performances have taken place on that basis.