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Who composed an overture based on Shakespeare’s a midsummer nights dream

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Felix Mendelssohn

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At two separate times, Felix Mendelssohn composed music for William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream (in German Ein Sommernachtstraum). First in 1826, near the start of his career, he wrote a concert overture (Op.

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