The Overture in C major, the so-called  “Trumpet Overture” with its brass fanfare was  composed in 1826 and a second version with considerable revisions was made in  1833  for performances in Düsseldorf and  London .<br>
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 The Overture in C major was first published posthumously in 1867.<br>
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 Christopher Hogwood’s Urtext edition takes into account both Mendelssohn’s autograph now held in the Bibliothèque nationale in Paris which has two endings as well as the London manuscript copy made for the performance there in 1834; this manuscript  contains  three separate trombone parts in Mendelssohn’s hand.  The new Bärenreiter  edition presents the work as found in Mendelssohn’s autograph for  the first time. Christopher Hogwood also documents the development of the  overture with  facsimiles from the 1826 version.<br>