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.

„Diese vorbildliche Ausgabe erscheint sicher nicht zufällig rechtzeitig vor dem Mendelsohnjahr 2009." (Rainer Goede, Kirchenkunst)