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Updated: August 11, 2024
In this atmosphere the flower of Mendelssohn's genius bore early fruit, and we find him in 1826, at the age of seventeen, writing his Overture to "A Midsummer-Night's Dream," a wonderful fabric of harmony and instrumentation, which sounds like Wagner at his best, though it was written when Wagner was only thirteen years old, and had never dreamed of writing music, nor had even turned out that old-fangled and empty sonata which is beautiful only because it was his first and last offence of the sort.
"One sees more devils than vast hell can hold; That is, the madman: " Midsummer-Night's Dream. On quitting the hill, Philip had summoned his Wampanoags, and, supported by the obedient and fierce Annawon, a savage that might, under better auspices, have proved a worthy lieutenant to Caesar, he left the fields of Wish-Ton-Wish.
I cannot fix the time or place when my friend and I began to read him, but it was in the fine print of that unhallowed edition of ours, and presently we had great lengths of him by heart, out of "Hamlet," out of "The Tempest," out of "Macbeth," out of "Richard III.," out of "Midsummer-Night's Dream," out of the "Comedy of Errors," out of "Julius Caesar," out of "Measure for Measure," out of "Romeo and Juliet," out of "Two Gentlemen of Verona."
In Midsummer-night's Dream he has the same notion. With doubler tongue Then thine, O serpent, never adder stung. ACT III. SCENE i. Thou hast nor youth, nor age: But as it were an after dinner's sleep, Dreaming on both. This is exquisitely imagined.
"Couldn't we do the one they did at Cousin Rose's school?" was the next query. "Papa says we have that." "I am afraid not," her mother demurred. "Ask your teacher." The child approached her teacher on the subject. "No," the teacher said decisively. "'A Midsummer-Night's Dream' is too long and too hard. Read it, and you'll see.
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