Elijah (oratorio) Austrian bass Joseph Staudigl. Mendelssohn had discussed an oratorio based on Elijah in the late 1830s with his friend Karl Klingemann, who had provided him with the libretto for his comic operetta "Die Heimkehr aus der Fremde", which resulted in a partial text that Klingemann was unable to finish. Mendelssohn then turned to , the librettist for his earlier oratorio "St. Paul", who quickly abandoned Klingemann's work and produced his own text that combined the story of Elijah as told in the Book of Kings with psalms. In 1845, the Birmingham Festival commissioned an oratorio from Mendelssohn, who worked with
Paul Thomson (composer) "Discovery: Project Earth" (2008) and "The Genius of Charles Darwin" (2008). Thomson was a lead composer on "LittleBigPlanet 2" created by Media Molecule creating all of the cinematics for the game, and several adaptive music tracks. He also worked with the company on the first game's downloadable content, scoring the "Pirates of the Caribbean" premium level pack and the "Marvel" premium level pack. He has also worked on LittleBigPlanet Karting, LittleBigPlanet Vita, and most recently, LittleBigPlanet 3. Paul Thomson (composer) Paul Ross Thomson (born 18 February 1972 in Walsall, Staffordshire) is an English composer for film, television, and video games