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) Paul Thomson (composer) Paul Ross Thomson (born 18 February 1972 in Walsall, Staffordshire) is an English composer for film, television, and video games who lives in Los Angeles. He won the 2012 Royal Television Society Craft & Design Award for "Music Original Title" for his theme music "The Fades" featured on BBC's cult series. Thomson has written for a variety of films and television shows. Recent work also includes the multiple award winning movie Missed Connections, the film adaptation of "Half of a Yellow Sun", the BAFTA Best Drama winning and BANFF Best Youth Fiction award winning "The Fades" (2011),