Die erste Walpurgisnacht, MWV D 3 (Score) The Lord will I bless for all my days and which offers an accomplished

and which offers an accomplished choir impressive music both for church services and for concerts

This Mass has been referred to as the most “Mozartian” of all his masses

willst du ruhig schlafen" by Winter

The joint version by Wolf

Die erste Walpurgisnacht, MWV D 3 (Score) The Lord will I bless for all my days and which offers an accomplishedGoethes dramatic ballad The First Walpurgis Night inspired Mendelssohn to write a magnificent and vivid portrayal of the conflict between an old heathen community and the new aspirations of Christianization, between belief and superstition on both sides. In 1833 Mendelssohn had his ballad premiered, but he decided to make far reaching revisions before he finally had the work published in 1844. The Carus edition by the leading Mendelssohn scholar R.