Background: Mendelssohn wrote two musical works for Shakespeare's comedy "A Midsummer Night's Dream"***, one of which was a four-hand piano piece written in 1826 when the author was seventeen years old. He played the overture to "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and adapted it into an orchestral piece the following year. It is known as the first romantic title concert overture in the history of music;

The other one was "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in 1843. The overture of the drama soundtrack written by "The Dream" was selected from the overture composed that year. The music in order is: Intermezzo/Enter the Craftsman/Dance of the Goblin/March of the Imps/Song and the Goblin Chorus "The Striped Snake"/Wedding March/Fantasy March/Scherzo/Nocturne/Finale.

Mendelssohn (1809.2.3 - 1847.11.4) German composer and conductor

Felix Mendelssohn was born in Hamburg to a Jewish family in 1809. His grandfather was the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, his father was a successful banker, and his mother was an excellent piano player. In a superior and cultural family environment, he began to perform publicly at the age of 9, began composing music at the age of 10, wrote his first piano quartet at the age of 12, organized his own private band at the age of 14, and published his first song at the age of 16. The masterpiece "String Octet" and the overture to the masterpiece "A Midsummer Night's Dream" were completed at the age of 17. At the age of 20, he conducted the first public performance of the "Matthew Passion", which attracted the world's attention to Bach and became a famous conductor.

In the following years, Felix Mendelssohn's musical career made great achievements. At the Birmingham Music Festival in 1846, he conducted his oratorio "Elijah" with great success. But by this time his health was deteriorating. The death of his sister the following year was a heavy blow to him. Six months later, the music master Felix Mendelssohn died at the age of only 39.