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 (1969 film) TV, a critic at WDR remarked: "Rather than being accused of having too few ideas, Averty has created a colourful phantasmagoria against which categories like arts, crafts, or kitsch fail." A Midsummer Night's Dream (1969 film) "Le Songe d'une nuit d'été" (A Midsummer Night's Dream) is a French TV film from 1969. It is based on "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare, and was directed by Jean-Christophe Averty. The four lovers Hermia (Christine Delaroche), Helena (Claude Jade), Lysander (Michel Ruhl), and Demetrius (Dominique Serina) have fled to a forest near Athens to escape from their parents' marriage plans. The