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  • toniq
    toniq Posts: 29,340 Forumite
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    edited 3 April 2010 at 5:04PM
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    Question:How old was Mendelssohn when he composed the Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream?

    Answer: 17

    here says 17

    wiki

    17 def correct checked 7 sources
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  • Jokey
    Jokey Posts: 8,801 Forumite
    I think it may be 33??
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  • sarahh31
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    Mendelssohn wrote the incidental music, Op. 61, for A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1842, 16 years after he wrote the Overture. (overture whan he was 17)
  • Jokey
    Jokey Posts: 8,801 Forumite
    Ignore meeeeeeee!!
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  • toniq
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    Phew! that confirms again what i thought 17, i knew they would get tricky! On one site it mentioned 16 so hence i checked quiet a few places xx
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  • Jokey
    Jokey Posts: 8,801 Forumite
    sarahh31 wrote: »
    Mendelssohn wrote the incidental music, Op. 61, for A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1842, 16 years after he wrote the Overture. (overture whan he was 17)

    The question does say overture tho then Wiki says...

    The A Midsummer Night's Dream Overture, Op. 21, originally written as an independent piece 16 years earlier, was incorporated into the Op. 61 incidental music as its overture
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  • Jokey
    Jokey Posts: 8,801 Forumite
    OMG, how hard is it?? It doesn't really explain, it could be 17 or 33!!!
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  • toniq
    toniq Posts: 29,340 Forumite
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    Felix Mendelssohn's score for William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is probably the most famous incidental music ever written (with Beethoven's music for Goethe's Egmont a close second). Mendelssohn composed the miraculous overture as a 17-year-old,
    #JusticeForGrenfell
  • Jokey
    Jokey Posts: 8,801 Forumite
    showArticleImage?image=images%2Fpages%2Fdtc.33.tif.gif&doi=10.2307%2F905298

    Have a look top right!!
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  • Jokey
    Jokey Posts: 8,801 Forumite
    Op. 21 was written when he was 17 xx
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