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4 . AmZ 29 (1827), 113.
5 . E. Devrient, Recollections , 32.
6 . Zelter to Felix, September 18, 1826; in Schmidt-Beste, 44–45; see also T. Schmidt, 44–46.
7 . E. Devrient, Recollections , 32–33.
8 . AmZ 29 (1827), 156.
9 . BamZ 4 (1827), 84 (March 14, 1827).
10 . Felix to A. M. Schlesinger, March 5, 1827; BadV , 278.
11 . Valeria Gigliucci, Clara Novello’s Reminiscences , London, 1910, 70.
12 . E. Devrient, Recollections , 24. Curiously, the English translation of Devrient’s memoirs mistranslates the German text (“französischen Kirche”) as “Jewish church.” Spontini’s residence on Markgrafenstrasse was noted by W. T. Freemantle, in papers for his unfinished Mendelssohn biography (Freemantle Papers in the Whittall Collection, LC).
13 . April 6, 1827, Felix to Adele Schopenhauer; LA , 215.
14 . The revised version was performed in Oxford in February 1987; a recording appeared in 1990.
15 . Elvers: 1976.
16 . Wellek, II, 28.
17 . January 16, 1824; Elvers: 1976.
18 . E. Devrient, Recollections , 25.
19 . Harmonicon 8 (1830), 99.
20 . E. Devrient, Recollections , 27.
21 . Klein: 1997, 96.
22 . BamZ 4 (1827), 141–42 (May 2, 1827).
23 . AmZ 29 (1827), 410–11.
24 . Revue musicale (1827), 386–87 (May 1827).
25 . Berliner Schnellpost 2 (1827), No. 70, 280, quoted in Krettenauer, 26.
26 . E. Devrient, Recollections , 30.
27 . Felix to William Bartholomew, July 17, 1843, Polko: 1987, 186.
28 . Zelter to Goethe, April 24, 1827; Hecker, II, 519.
29 . E. Devrient, Recollections , 40–43. Heinrich Marschner set the libretto in 1833.
30 . Waidelich, 160ff.
31 . On January 16, 1828, the AmZ reported that the opera would be “aroused from its lethargy,” but nothing ever came of the idea. AmZ 30 (1828), 42.
32 . AmZ 31 (1829), 356 (June 3, 1829).
33 . Werner Obermann, Der junge Johann Gustav Droysen , diss., Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn, 1977, 98.
34 . Fanny to Klingemann, December 27, 1828; MF I, 164.
35 . Schubring, “Reminiscences,” 224; Droysen: 1902, 109.
36 . Lea to Henriette von Pereira Arnstein, ca. September 1827; MDM c. 29, fol. 60 (extract). The matriculation records survive in the Universitätsarchiv of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. I am indebted to Prof. S. J. Lindeman and Dr. W. Schultze for bringing the archives to my attention.
37 . Gans’s “Neueste Geschichte” (SBB MA Ms. 114); and Ritter’s “Geographie von Europa” (MDM d. 67).
38 . Hiller, Letters , 11.
39 . E. Devrient, Recollections , 33.
40 . W. L. Gage, The Life of Carl Ritter , N.Y., 1867, 208.
41 . The original Ms. of the fugue for Op. 35 No. 1 was sold in London at an auction on May 10, 1977; the second fugue was originally in MN 42, according to a catalogue of the collection prepared by Konrad Schleinitz in 1848 (MDM c. 28).
42 . Schubring, “Reminiscences,” 227; see also Todd: 1992c, 192ff.
43 . Lea to Henriette von Pereira Arnstein, August 1826; MDM c. 23 (extract).
44 . Charles Rosen, The Romantic Generation , Cambridge, Mass., 1995, 590, 594.
45 . T. Devrient, 232–34.
46 . BamZ 4 (1827), 179 (June 6, 1827).
47 . E. Devrient, Recollections , 26.
48 . SBB, MA Ms. 34, 22–24 (November 11, 1823).
49 . Schubring, “Reminiscences,” 223–24; see the piano part of m. 14.
50 . Die Ruinen des Campo vaccino in Rom ; see Büttner, 87–118.
51 . Felix to Lea, July 19, 1842; Selden-Goth, 308.
52 . Rheinblüthen. 4. Jahrgang , Karlsruhe, 1825.
53 . Harmonicon 8 (1830), 99.
54 . MF , I, 133; Droysen: 1902, 195. Not to be confused with the poet Johann Heinrich Voss (1751–1826).
55 . Berlin, MN 25.
56 . See Nancy B. Reich: 1991, 259–71.
57 . According to MF I, 133n, it was the young physicist Gustav Magnus.
58 . Felix to Zelter, February 15, 1832, in P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: 1869, 338.
59 . Felix to Fanny, September 14, 1827; NYPL, part in MF I, 136–38.
60 . H. G. Reissner, Eduard Gans: Ein Leben im Vormärz , Tübingen, 1965, 49.
61 . Thibaut, Purity in Music , trans. J. Broadhouse, London, 1882, 11.
62 . Felix to Berlin, September 20, 1827; MF I, 139.
63 . Felix to Abraham, September 29, 1827, MLL , 49–50; Felix to Lindblad, October 23, 1827, Dahlgren, 16.
64 . Reich: 1991, 260.
65 . MN 25; Fuga a tempo ordinario , November 1, 1827 (MN 18, 13–18).
66 . Felix received a copy of Beethoven’s Op. 127 from Ferdinand David as a birthday present on February 3, 1827. See Ward Jones: 1989, 12–13. Curiously, Op. 132 had appeared from Schlesinger in Berlin in September 1827, though the first movement of Felix’s Op. 13, which betrays Beethoven’s influence, was finished in late July. In a communication to the author (July 28, 2001) Peter Ward Jones has proposed that Felix had access to a prepublication copy of Op. 132.
67 . Felix to Lindblad, mid-February 1828, in Dahlgren, 19–20.
68 . Ibid., 20.
69 . MA Ms. 63, 2; for some congratulatory verses on Fanny’s birthday, see Klein: 1997, 54–55.
70 . See Fanny to Klingemann, December 23, 1827 (MF I, 152); and Lea to Klingemann, December 28, 1827 (Klingemann, 43).
71 . AmZ 30 (1828), 45.
72 . AmZ 30 (1828), 42, 46. The anonymous reviewer judged Schubert’s ballade inferior to settings by Zelter and Reichardt, and “overly rich” (überreich ) in “modulations and bizarreness.”
73. E. Devrient, Recollections , 38.
74 . MF I, 131; dated autograph in the Newberry Library, Chicago, of which a facs., ed. by Oswald Jonas, appeared in 1966.
75 . Reich: 1991, 261. The Pistor Collection was eventually sold in 1916 to the publisher C. F. Peters, and is now preserved in the Musikbibliothek of Leipzig. See Handschriften der Werke J. S. Bachs in der Musikbibliothek der Stadt Leipzig , Leipzig, 1964, 43–53. The autograph of BWV 133 formerly owned by Felix was donated by Ernst von Mendelssohn Bartholdy in 1908 to the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin.
76 . Reich: 1991, 262.
77 . Cairns, 294.
78 . Felix to Klingemann, February 5, 1828, Klingemann, 46–49.
79 . See further James Garratt, Palestrina and the German Romantic Imagination , Cambridge, 2002, 80.
80 . MF , I, 131.
81 . BamZ 5 (1828), 9–10.
82 . Droysen: 1902, 111.
83 . Fanny to Klingemann, December 8, 1828, MF I, 163.
84 . See Blumner, 71; Schünemann: 1941, 54; BamZ 6 (1829), 376, and 7 (1830), 23; and AmZ 31 (1829), 829.
85 . Corpus Antiphonalium Officii , ed. René-Jean Hesbert, Rome, 1968, III, 184 and 260.
86 . BamZ 7 (1830), 20–23 (January 16, 1830).
87 . Reissner: 1959, 95.
88 . Schubring, “Reminiscences,” 222. In 1963 Eric Werner presented part of an “unpublished” letter from Hegel to Felix dated June 30, 1829 (Werner: 1963, 80) that appeared to discuss the relation of music to logic. But Werner gave no source for the letter, and thus far scholars have been unable to verify its authenticity.
89 . Felix’s lecture notes, privately owned in 1974, have so far not surfaced; see T. Schmidt: 1996, 53 fn. 108. For a modern edition of the philosopher’s lectures, see T. M. Knox, ed. and trans., Hegel’s Lectures on Fine Art , Oxford, 1975, 2 vols.
90 . See J. N. Findlay, Hegel: A Re-examination , N.Y., 1958, 340–41; and T. Schmidt: 1996, 53ff., drawn from the fuller discussion in Adolf Nowak, Hegels Musikästhetik , Regensburg, 1971.
91 . Zelter to Goethe (March 22, 1829), Hecker III, 153; but see also Geck, 60.
92 . Felix to Wilhe
lm Taubert (August 27, 1831), cited in T. Schmidt: 1996, 59.
93 . Cited in Hoffheimer, 6.
94 . See Reissner: 1959.
95 . Fanny to Klingemann, December 27, 1828; MF I, 164.
96 . Fanny to Klingemann, March 22, 1829; ibid., 173–74.
97 . Dated autograph of the Etude (January 4, 1828) in PML.
98 . Felix to Klingemann, February 5, 1828, Klingemann, 49.
99 . AmZ 30 (1828), 282–83.
100 . BamZ 1 (1824), 391–96.
101 . Marx, Ueber Malerei in der Tonkunst , Berlin, 1828, 60; see also Silber Ballan, 155ff.
102 . Lea to Henriette von Pereira Arnstein, June 1828; MDM c. 29, fol. 60v (extract).
103 . AmZ 31 (1829), 456.
104 . Fanny to Klingemann, September 12, 1828 (MF I, 162).
105 . Ibid., I, 156.
106 . Part of Tölken’s address is given in H. Lüdecke and S. Heiland, Dürer und die Nachwelt , Berlin, 1955, 209; Levezow’s poem is given in German and English in Hatteberg, 182–214.
107 . For Schinkel’s sketch of the decorations, see Lüdecke and S. Heiland, Pl. 26. For accounts of the festival by Fanny and Levezow, see MF , I, 157, and Levezow, Albrecht Dürer: Lyrische Dichtung zur Gedächtniß-Feier des Künstlers in Berlin, den 18. April 1828 (Berlin, 1828), in Hatteberg, 145–46.
108 . See Werner Bollert, “Die Händelpflege der Berliner Sing-Akademie unter Zelter und Rungen-hagen,” in Bollert, 69–79. Felix’s unpublished arrangement of Acis and Galatea , modernized in a scoring for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, timpani, and strings, was finished in Berlin on January 3, 1829, and survives in MDM c. 74.
109 . E. Devrient, Recollections , 42.
110 . Fanny to Klingemann, December 23, 1827, MF I, 151.
111 . Douglas Botting, Humboldt and the Cosmos , N.Y., 1973, 232.
112 . Letter of September 28, 1828, from Chopin to his family in Warsaw. F. Chopin, Selected Correspondence , ed. R. E. Sydow, trans. A. Hedley, London, 1962, 17.
113 . Fanny to Klingemann, September 12, 1828, MF I, 162.
114 . Schönewolf, 24–27.
115 . Botting (see n. 111), 253 (n. 113).
116 . See Todd: 1993, 44–47.
117 . Fanny to Klingemann, June 18, 1828, MF I, 161.
118 . Lea to Henriette Pereira Arnstein, September 1828 (MDM c. 29, fol. 61v, extract).
119 . Droysen: 1902: 116.
120 . Felix to Leopold Ganz, October 19, 1828; GM , 186–88.
121 . Entry of January 4, 1829, in Fanny’s diary, Berlin, MA Depos. 500, 22.
122 . Letter of ca. October 24, 1828, from Felix to Berlin (NYPL No. 51).
123 . Klein: 1993, 155; a facs. of the autograph faces 151; Fanny to Klingemann, December 8, 1828, MF I, 163.
124 . See Fanny’s letter of September 7, 1838, to Felix; Citron: 1987, 261.
125 . Tillard: 1996, 130.
126 . Charles Gounod, Autobiographical Reminiscences , trans. W. Hely Hutchinson, London, 1896, rep. N.Y., 1970, 91. Gounod confused the Lieder ohne Worte with Felix’s texted Lieder , which, of course, do contain several of Fanny’s Lieder, in Opp. 8 and 9.
127 . AmZ 31 (1828), 18–20.
128 . Steiger and Reimann, VIII, 148. A facs. of Felix’s autograph, Festlied zu Zelters siebzigsten Geburtstag MDCCCXXVIII, gedichtet von Goethe, vertont von Mendelssohn , appeared in Leipzig in 1928.
129 . December 27, 1828, Fanny to Klingemann, MF I, 164.
130 . Regarding Dirichlet’s life and career, see further Hans Lausch, “‘Der Mathematiker schwimmt in Wollust.’ Mathematik bei Moses Mendelssohns—Mathematiker im Familienstammbaum,” MS 7 (1990), 97–101.
131 . MF I, 166.
132 . Benjamin, 181. Hensel also gave Felix a small diary that he used during his visit to England and Scotland in 1829 (MDM g. 1), and Rebecka a star-shaped diary.
133 . Schadow, 238.
134 . Poem of January 23, 1829, in Klein: 1997, 155–56.
135 . Fanny’s diary, Berlin, MA Depos. 500, 22, entry of February 4, 1829.
136 . MF I, 167.
137 . Ibid.
138 . Helmig and Maurer, 139–61.
139 . All conveniently examined in Geck.
140 . Schubring, “Reminiscences,” 227.
141 . See Geck, 23ff.
142 . E. Devrient, Recollections , 38; T. Devrient, 303.
143 . E. Devrient, Recollections , 39.
144 . E. Devrient, Erinnerungen , 62.
145 . Schünemann: 1928, 159.
146 . Fanny to Klingemann, December 27, 1828 (MF I, 165; translation modified).
147 . Felix to Zelter, January 8, 1829, MLL , 52.
148 . Benjamin, 185; the passage is an early version of bars 47–51 of the finale.
149 . MDM c. 8, fols. 21–25.
150 . LC, Whittall Foundation Collection.
151 . Fanny to Felix, April 15, 1829, MF I, 177.
152 . Fanny’s diary (MA , 500, 22) entry of February 4, 1829; Hensel’s gift, which included a double portrait of Fanny and Rebecka as a frontispiece, is in MDM e. 11.
153 . See Geck, 34, based on Schünemann: 1941, 54.
154 . E. Devrient, Recollections , 60.
155 . T. Devrient, 307–8; Marx, report of the performance, Geck, 40.
156 . Fanny to Klingemann, March 22, 1829; MF I, 171.
157 . MA Depos. 500, 22, entry of March 9, 1829.
158 . See Klein: 1993, 155–56. After Felix left for England in April, Paganini was again invited to the Mendelssohn residence, where he recorded eight measures of a violin Capriccio in Fanny’s album.
159 . Geck, 36–37.
160 . Marissen.
161 . Sposato: 2000, 131.
162 . Geck, 38.
163 . Felix to Schubring, November 18, 1830, in Schubring: 1892, 15.