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 Verhoeven (German director) Paul Verhoeven (German director) Paul Verhoeven (, Unna, Westphalia – ) was a German actor, writer, and film and theatre director. He had 13 siblings and the family lived in modest circumstances. He directed and acted in over 50 films, and wrote over 20 film scripts, the first of which was "Das kleine Hofkonzert" in 1935, an operetta with music by Edmund Nick based on a comedy by Verhoeven and . From 1945 to 1948 he was artistic director at the Residenz Theatre/Staatsschauspiel in Munich. Verhoeven was married to the actress Doris Kiesow, with whom he had three children: Lis