Felix Mendelssohn Melusine (Die schöne Melusine)" (1830). A contemporary writer considered these works as "perhaps the most beautiful overtures that, so far, we Germans possess". Mendelssohn also wrote in 1839 an overture to "Ruy Blas", commissioned for a charity performance of Victor Hugo's drama (which the composer hated) His incidental music to "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (Op. 61), including the well-known Wedding March, was written in 1843, seventeen years after the Overture. The Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 (1844), was written for Ferdinand David. David, who had worked closely with Mendelssohn during the piece's preparation, gave the premiere of the
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935 film) out on the screen". Today, the film gets mostly good reviews. Emanuel Levy notices: "Bold and impressive, Reinhardt's screen version of his famous Hollywood Bowl Shakespearean production was nominated for the Best Picture Oscar." , Reinhardt's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" holds an 88% rating on the film-critics aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes, based on 8 reviews. The film is often used as a comparison to modern comedy: slapstick, insults, puns, the battle of the sexes, witty retorts, mockery are just some of the ways that the art of Shakespeare and Reinhardt is as relevant as ever. The film won two Academy