55, MWV M 12, is a suite of incidental music written in 1841 by Felix Mendelssohn to accompany the tragedy Antigone by Sophocles, staged by Ludwig Tieck.

The music was published that year by Kistner in Leipzig, with a dedication to his patron, King Frederick William IV of Prussia.

Mendelssohn had been appointed as court composer to Frederick William IV, who had ascended the throne in June the previous year.

The king had encountered Donner's translation of the play and passed it on to Tieck, the Vorleser (stage reader) of the court.

[2] The play with the music was performed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, on 2 January 1845, conducted by George Alexander Macfarren, with less success.