Midsummer Night's Dream / ManfredIn the Overture and Incidental Music to William Shakespeare's 'Midsummer Night's Dream,' Felix Mendelssohn brings the illustrious company of elves, lovers' passions and the solitude of the forest or a moonlit night to musical life. It became a model for other literary reflections in music like Peter Tchaikovsky's 'Manfred Symphony.' It's four movements or "images," as the composer himself named them capture the world weariness of George Byron's

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and "Sissy Man Blues"

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Even great composers have enjoyed arranging the works of their predecessors and have thus transported them into their time and era of music history and lent their own interpretations to them

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"Don't Go Home" and "What Is Love"

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