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Felix Mendelssohn:
Music Based on Shakespeare
Probably no playwright has had more music based on his work than William Shakespeare. Felix Mendelssohn, Henry Purcell, Hector Berlioz, Giuseppe Verdi are just a few of the composers who've been inspired by Shakespeare's plays.
Music heard in this episode:
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream: Overture
Purcell: Fairy Queen
Korngold: Viel Lärmen um Nichts
Berlioz: Beatrice et Benedict
Nicolai: Merry Wives of Windsor Overture
Verdi: Falstaff
Vaughan Williams: Variations on Greensleeves
Verdi: Macbeth
Verdi: Otello
Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance
Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night's Dream: Scherzo
Purcell: Fairy Queen
Korngold: Viel Lärmen um Nichts
Berlioz: Beatrice et Benedict
Nicolai: Merry Wives of Windsor Overture
Verdi: Falstaff
Vaughan Williams: Variations on Greensleeves
Verdi: Macbeth
Verdi: Otello
Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance
Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night's Dream: Scherzo
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