By the time Mendelssohn's "Elijah" is released for sale in its entirety – with score, parts, and piano reduction – in the Mendelssohn anniversary year 2009, it will already have proven itself in practice: In January 2009, Kurt Masur used the performing parts which the publisher prepared in anticipation of his performances in Paris. The new "Breitkopf Urtext" edition presents the music text of the "Leipziger Mendelssohn-Ausgabe," which was able to take into consideration the newly accessible autograph score for the first time. Moreover, the bilingual piano-vocal score contains the first-ever correct underlay of the English vocal text which William Bartholomew worked out in close collaboration with Mendelssohn.