... the lonely island. Mendelssohn composed the Hebrides over just under a 3- year period but there were 2 different versions written. The first version was finished in Rome in December 1830 and he headed it Die Hebriden bur someone took a copy of it before Mendelssohn had made most of his alterations called Die einsame Insel. In January 1832 he wrote to his sister Fanny and said that he still considered the overture unfinished, 'The loud DMaj section in the middle is very stupid, and the so-called development smacks more of counterpoint than of oil and seagulls and dead fish; and it should be just the opposite.' He then completed the second version of the overture in London on 20th June 1832. In the first edition of his dictionary, Sir George Grove mentioned that the published score and parts did not always agree, e.g. bars 7 and 87. This was ...

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