Michael Cooper publishes cantata

Michael Cooper, associate professor of music, published the premier edition of the first complete version of Mendelssohn’s secular cantata Die erste Walpurgisnacht (The first Walpurgis night) as part of the series “Recent Researches Concerning the Music of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries” (Madison, Wisconsin; A-R Editions), based on a 1799 ballad by Goethe. The edition is based on manuscripts held in Cracow, Paris, Berlin and Oxford.