The Hebrides (overture) The Hebrides (overture) Felix Mendelssohn's concert overture The Hebrides (; ) was composed in 1830, revised in 1832, and published the next year as his Op. 26. Some consider it an early tone poem. It was inspired by one of Mendelssohn's trips to the British Isles, specifically an 1829 excursion to the Scottish island of Staffa, with its basalt sea cave known as Fingal's Cave. It is not known whether Mendelssohn set foot on the island, the cave being best visible from the water, but the composer reported that he immediately jotted down the opening theme for his composition. He
Tragic Overture (Dvořák) Press, 2006. Tragic Overture (Dvořák) The Tragic Overture, B. 16a (also called the Dramatic Overture; ) is an orchestral composition written in 1870 by the Czech composer Antonín Dvořák. It was Dvořák's overture to his first, never published, opera "Alfred". Šourek's book "Orchestral Works of Antonín Dvořák" has a complete description of the "Tragic Overture". It was first performed on 1 April 1905, almost one year after Dvořák's death. Dramatic Overture: It is a 1 movement work, usually in a sonata-allegro form, it encapsulates in music the essential dramatic events of an opera or play. Jarmil Burghauser: Antonín Dvořák. Prague: