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I'm afraid I can't offer an authoritative answer but having read your question with interest (I love the "War March of the Priests" scored for organ), I did a bit of reading and found out from Wikipedia that Athalie was not a very nice person! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athalie Perhaps that's why "Athalie" is not often performed in its entirety, due to the unsavory nature of the biblical Athalie? To support this idea, elsewhere, an entry in the French version of Wikipedia http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athalie states that the play "Athalie" by Jean Racine (on which Mendelssohn's "Athalie" was based), published in 1691, "was the victim of opposition by moralists at the time of its creation". Anyway, my search also turned up the following recording which you may find of interest, if you would like to hear other parts of Athalie: http://www.amazon.ca/Athalie-Incidental-Music-Felix-Mendelssohn/dp/B000001SUE Do read Nicholas A Deutche's review on this page under "Customer Reviews"; it's very informative!

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