Editing Felix Mendelssohn (section)

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[[File:Mendelssohn Wedding March Theme.jpg|thumb|upright=1.8|alt= |Trumpet part (top) and the main theme in the violin part (bottom), of the "[[Wedding March (Mendelssohn)|Wedding March]]" from Mendelssohn's Op. 61]]
Mendelssohn wrote the [[Overture#Concert overture|concert overture]] ''[[The Hebrides (overture)|The Hebrides]]'' (''Fingal's Cave'') in 1830, inspired by visits to Scotland around the end of the 1820s. He visited [[Fingal's Cave]], on the [[Hebrides|Hebridean]] isle of [[Staffa]], as part of his [[Grand Tour of Europe]], and was so impressed that he scribbled the opening theme of the overture on the spot, including it in a letter he wrote home the same evening.{{sfn|Mercer-Taylor|2000|p=85}} He wrote other concert overtures, notably ''[[Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage (Mendelssohn)|Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage]]'' (''Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt'', 1828), inspired by a pair of poems by Goethe{{sfn|Mercer-Taylor|2000|pp=69–70}} and ''[[Die schöne Melusine|The Fair Melusine]] (Die schöne Melusine)'' (1830).{{sfn|Mercer-Taylor|2000|p=130}} A contemporary writer considered these works as "perhaps the most beautiful overtures that, so far, we Germans possess".{{sfn|Brown|2003|p=359}}

Mendelssohn also wrote in 1839 an overture to ''[[Ruy Blas]]'', commissioned for a charity performance of [[Victor Hugo]]'s drama (which the composer hated).{{sfn|Mercer-Taylor|2000|p=154}} His [[incidental music]] to ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream (Mendelssohn)|A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'' (Op. 61), including the well-known "[[Wedding March (Mendelssohn)|Wedding March]]", was written in 1843, seventeen years after the Overture.{{sfn|Mercer-Taylor|2000|pp=180–181}}