<P> Henry Purcell The Fairy - Queen by Henry Purcell consists of a set of masques meant to go between acts of the play, as well as considerable rewriting of the play to be current to 17th century audiences . </P> <P> In 1826, Felix Mendelssohn composed a concert overture, inspired by the play, that was first performed in 1827 . In 1842, partly because of the fame of the overture, and partly because his employer King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia liked the incidental music that Mendelssohn had written for other plays that had been staged at the palace in German translation, Mendelssohn was commissioned to write incidental music for a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream that was to be staged in 1843 in Potsdam . He incorporated the existing Overture into the incidental music, which was used in most stage versions through the 19th century . The best known of the pieces from the incidental music is the famous Wedding March, frequently used as a recessional in weddings . </P> <P> The choreographer Marius Petipa, more famous for his collaborations with Tchaikovsky (on the ballets Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty) made another ballet adaptation for the Imperial Ballet of St. Petersburg with additional music and adaptations to Mendelssohn's score by Léon Minkus . The revival premiered 14 July 1876 . English choreographer Frederick Ashton also created a 40 - minute ballet version of the play, retitled to The Dream . George Balanchine was another to create a Midsummer Night's Dream ballet based on the play, using Mendelssohn's music . </P> <P> Between 1917 and 1939 Carl Orff also wrote incidental music for a German version of the play, Ein Sommernachtstraum (performed in 1939). Since Mendelssohn's parents were Jews who converted to Lutheranism, his music had been banned by the Nazi regime, and the Nazi cultural officials put out a call for new music for the play: Orff was one of the musicians who responded . He later reworked the music for a final version, completed in 1964 . </P>

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