A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Sinfonie-Cantate

SINFONIE-CANTATE. The title of Mendelssohn's Lobgesang or Hymn of Praise (op. 52). The term—accurately 'Symphonie-Cantate'—is due to Klingemann, according to Mendelssohn's own statement in his published letter of Nov. 18, 1840. Mendelssohn was so much in love with it as to propose to bestow it also on the 'Walpurgisnight' (see the same letter and that to his mother of Nov. 28, 1842). That intention was not however carried out.

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