Elijah (oratorio) thorough and speedy recognition of a great work of art'. Notwithstanding the work's triumph, Mendelssohn revised his oratorio wholesale before another group of performances in London in April 1847 - one (23 April) in the presence of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. The German version was first performed on the composer's birthday, 3 February 1848, in Leipzig, a few months after Mendelssohn's death, under the baton of the composer Niels Wilhelm Gade. Mendelssohn uses biblical episodes relating to Elijah, which in the original, :19 and , are narrated in rather laconic form, to produce intensely dramatic scenes, by adding several
Paul Hermann (composer) Paul Hermann (composer) Paul Hermann (Budapest, March 27, 1902 – unknown 1944), also known as Pál Hermann, was a virtuoso cellist and composer. Hermann was born in Budapest, Hungary, on 27 March 1902 and came from a Jewish family. About his early childhood not much more than an anecdote remains: he was only prepared to study for his piano lessons if for every étude he prepared, he would receive one cent. He studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music from 1915–1919 and developed close relationships, both musical and personal, with his teachers of composition Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály,