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

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