In 1826 Mendelssohn composed a Nocturno for a Bad Doberan spa band which consisted of 11 wind players (flute, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, trumpet and bass horn). The composition was later used as the basis for his Overture for Winds op. 24 which requires much larger forces. The Nocturno, a chamber music work in the divertimento tradition, was not published during MendelssohnÆs lifetime; it appears here in a first ever critical edition - in score and parts - edited by Christopher Hogwood.
First Urtext Edition With additional parts in B-flat for the clarinet and trumpet as well as parts in F for the horns