The History of Mendelssohn's Oratorio 'Elijah'

Note 46 — Chapter III

Reading edition

This section of the chorus (No. 41), which Mendelssohn rejected almost at the eleventh hour, was a somewhat extended movement in D, eighty-six bars long. It started with the following subject in the soprano:

SOPRANO. He shall open, shall open the blind eyes, and He shall bring the prisoners from the prison; and them that sit, that sit in darkness out of the prison house.

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