164 . Vossische Zeitung , March 13, 1829, in Geck, 52.
165 . See Geck, 30; Schünemann: 1928; and Smend.
Chapter 7
1 . I. Moscheles, 90.
2 . Felix to Moscheles, January 10, 1829, in Moscheles: 1888, 6.
3 . I. Moscheles, 149.
4 . Zelter to Goethe, March 9, 1829, Hecker, III, 129.
5 . Fanny’s diary (MA 500, 22), entry for April 1, 1829.
6 . Ibid., entries for April 1 and 8, 1829.
7 . Fanny to Klingemann, March 22, 1829, MF I, 173.
8 . Now lost, the painting was finished for Lea’s birthday. A photograph survives in the Courtauld Institute, London. See further Lowenthal-Hensel: 1997, 15–16 and Illustration 2.
9 . Felix to Klingemann, March 26, 1829, Klingemann, 51.
10 . Letter of April 13–14, 1829, in MLL , 56.
11 . Notes for a projected Mendelssohn biography, W. T. Freemantle Collection, LC.
12 . Letter of April 21, 1829, MLL , 61.
13 . Felix to Berlin, April 21, 1829 (MF I, 177).
14 . Felix to Berlin, April 25, 1829, ibid., I, 180.
15 . F. G. Edwards: 1895, 43.
16 . Unpublished passages from Felix’s letter of April 25, 1829 (NYPL No. 55).
17 . I. Moscheles, 150.
18 . Rosemary Ashton, Little Germany: Exile and Asylum in Victorian England , Oxford, 1986, 82.
19 . See Levy: 1985.
20 . Letter of July 21, 1829, MLL , 79.
21 . Revue musicale 3 (1829), June; trans. in The Atlas and reprinted in the Harmonicon 7 (1829), 241–43.
22 . BamZ 6 (1829), 278ff.
23 . Letter of July 8, 1829, in Selden-Goth, 54–55; Harmonicon 7 (1829), 193; see also the full account in Jourdan: 1998, 147ff.
24 . Robert Elkin, Royal Philharmonic (London, 1946), 25.
25 . Daniel Pool, What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew , N.Y., 1993, 52.
26 . See Joel Sachs, “London: The Professionalization of Music,” in Alexander Ringer, ed., The Early Romantic Era: Between Revolutions: 1789 and 1848 , N.Y., 1990, 212. The concert programs are given in Foster.
27 . See Jourdan: 1998, 88–95.
28 . Unpublished passage of a letter from Felix to Berlin, April 25, 1829, NYPL No. 55.
29 . Felix to Berlin, May 26, 1829, MF I, 184.
30 . Schubring, “Reminiscences,” in MahW , 228.
31 . Cox, 271.
32 . Exactly when Felix made the arrangement remains a mystery. Peter Ward Jones has suggested that it predates the English sojourn, though in a letter of May 29, 1829 (NYPL No. 64), Felix mentions the arrangement to Fanny as if it were a novelty. See Ward Jones: 1997c, 65–66; and the detailed discussion in the Vorwort to Ralf Wehner’s new ed. of Op. 11 in LAWFMB , I: 4, Wiesbaden, 2000. The arrangement was published in London in 1911 and recorded by Toscanini in 1945 but it is still rarely played today.
33 . Athenaeum (June 10, 1829).
34 . Felix to the Secretary of the Philharmonic Society, May 26, 1829, Selden-Goth, 49–50. The French version was prepared by Adolphe d’Eichthal (MDM, GB XXVII, 113–14).
35 . The Times , June 1, 1829, 2 (Argyll-Rooms).
36 . Felix to Berlin, June 25, 1829, in Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, 73–76.
37 . Ibid.
38 . I. Moscheles, 151.
39 . Moscheles’s part to the cadenza may survive in MDM c. 86 (for a facs., see Stephan D. Lindeman’s edition of the first movement of the Concerto (Madison, Wisc., 1999), xix.
40 . Harmonicon 7 (1829), 204.
41 . See Felix’s letters of June 19 to E. Devrient (Devrient, Recollections , 81); July 3 to Berlin (NYPL No. 70); and July 17, 1829, to Berlin (NYPL No. 72).
42 . See Alexander: 1975, 72–74.
43 . MDM c. 34, f. 9–10; in ibid., 74. The anthem was reviewed in The Musical World 3 (1836), 189; I am grateful to Peter Ward Jones for this reference.
44 . Abraham to Felix, July 8, 1829, in Schneider: 1962, 20. See also p. 139.
45 . Fanny to Felix, July 8, 1829 (Citron: 1987, 66).
46 . Werner: 1955b, 556; and idem: 1963, 38.
47 . See Schneider: 1962, 20–24; and Sposato: 2000, 45ff.
48 . See the letters of May 15 and 19, 1829, in MF I, 183; and E. Devrient, Recollections , 73.
49 . July 20, 1829, parts of which are published in Großmann-Vendrey: 1969, 38–39. For Zelter’s reply, dated August 9, see Schmidt-Beste, 51–52.
50 . June 25, 1829, in Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, 74.
51 . SBB MA BA 161; facs. in Kleßmann, 171.
52 . June 19, 1829, in MLL 69.
53 . June 25, 1829, MF I, 189–90.
54 . Letter of May 1, 1829, in MLL , 62.
55 . Felix’s pocket diary, MDM g. 1, fol. 10; concerning the tunnel, see C. B. Noble, The Brunels: Father and Son, London, 1938.
56 . I. Moscheles, 140–41.
57 . Felix to Abraham, May 1, 1829, in MLL , 62–63.
58 . Klingemann to Fanny, April 24, 1829, in Klingemann, 52.
59 . Maggs Brothers Auction Catalogue 510, London, 1928, No. 1956; see also the edition by Thomas Christian Schmidt, Stuttgart, 1996.
60 . Fanny to Felix, February 17, 1835, in Citron: 1987, 173.
61 . Letter of March 16, 1834, cited in Großmann-Vendrey: 1969, 211. See further Zappalà: 1991, 106ff.
62 . Dated June 12, 1829 (Berlin, MA N Mus. Ms. 23), the piece was written not quite two weeks before the performance of Op. 21 on June 24. Later that year Marx published it in the BamZ .
63 . March 22, 1829, MF I, 170.
64 . Fanny to Felix, April 18, 1829, in Citron: 1987, 25.
65 . Fanny to Felix, May 27 and June 10, 1829, in ibid., 41, 50; Klingemann to Fanny, July 7, 1829, in Klingemann, 57.
66 . Fiske, 141.
67 . MDM c. 22.
68 . See Citron: 1987, 51, n. 19.
69 . Fanny to Felix, August 15, 1829, in Tillard: 1996, 161–62; and facs. 11.
70 . Fanny to Felix, May 27, 1829, in Citron: 1987, 40.
71 . Letter of June 5, 1829, NYPL No. 65; Smart’s canon is in Felix’s album, MDM d. 8, fol. 70v.
72 . Drawing of July 24, 1829, in MDM d. 2, fols. 8 and 10. In January 1847 Felix copied the Scottish drawings as a gift for Klingemann; for a facs., see Klingemann, 55.
73 . Felix to Berlin, July 28, 1829; MLL , 80.
74 . Hadden, 96–97, 103–4.
75 . SBB MA N Mus. Ms. 111; see also Seaton: 1977.
76 . Letter of July 30, 1829; MT 39 (1898), 596.
77 . Fiske, 127–28.
78 . MF I, 202.
79 . K. F. Schinkel, “The English Journey”: A Journal of a Visit to France and Britain in 1826 , ed. D. Bindman, G. Riemann, New Haven, 1993, 163.
80 . MF I, 207.
81 . Fanny to Felix, August 21, 1829; Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, 90.
82 . MF I, 204.
83 . Klingemann, August 10, 1829, MF I, 205.
84 . Ibid., I, 206.
85 . Letter of August 15, 1829 (NYPL), in Klein: 1997, 99; the letter is partially printed in MF I, 209–10.
86 . See Fiske, 141; Tillard: 1996, 154; and Hellwig-Unruh: 2000, 211–12.
87 . See Tillard: 1996, 154.
88 . Letter of August 25, 1829, MF I, 216.
89 . Austin, 426; MF I, 225–29; and Tudur.
90 . The sketch is in Felix’s pocket diary, MDM g. 1, fols. 34–35, and transcribed in Wm. A. Little’s edition of the organ works, London, 1987, II, x.
91 . PML, Heinemann Collection.
92 . Paris, BN, Conservatoire Ms. 191.
93 . Letter of April 14, 1830, to Ferdinand David. Dated April 13 in LA , 126–31; for the corrected text, see Nancy Reich, “The Rudorff Collection,” Notes of the Music Library Association 31 (1974), 253.
94 . See Nancy Reich: 1991, 268–69.
95 . Felix and Klingemann to Berlin, September 25, 1829; MF I, 232.
96 . Berlin, MA Dep. Lohs 4, 59–63.
> 97 . The text of the Ehevertrag is in Klein: 1997, 156–59.
98 . Berlin, MA Dep. Lohs 4, 65–66.
99 . Letter of October 3, 1829, from Fanny to Felix, Citron, 90–92.
100 . Letter of October 27, 1829 (NYPL No. 92).
101 . Letter of October 16, 1829 (NYPL No. 90). The copy, finished on November 6, is in Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Musiksammlung Ms. 16536.
102 . See Edwards: 1895, 4–7.
103 . Sotheby’s, November 21, 1990; No. 161.
104 . Edwards: 1895, 7.
105 . LC, Whittall Collection; the Cramer arrangement substitutes the scherzo of the Octet for the minuet.
106 . LC, W. T. Freemantle Collection.
107 . Letter of December 17, 1829, from Felix to Mantius, LC; letter of December 28, 1829, Klingemann, 68.
108 . PML, New York.
109 . For an edition, see Vana.
110 . T. Devrient, 315.
111 . Klein: 1997, 162.
112 . Lea to Klingemann, December 30, 1829, in Klingemann, 70.
113 . See Elvers: 1990.
114 . Felix to Lindblad, April 11, 1830, in Dahlgren, 34.
115 . According to F. G. Edwards, Felix wrote the words (Musical Haunts , 39).
116 . Caprice caractéristique , Op. 76; see Krettenauer, 319–26.
117 . Ibid., 260.
118 . E. Devrient, Recollections , 93.
119 . Krettenauer, 274–76.
Chapter 8
1 . GM , 56.
2 . February 10, 1830, to Klingemann, Klingemann, 74.
3 . E. Devrient, Recollections , 98.
4 . For a thorough treatment see Silber: 1987, 14ff.
5 . Friedlaender: 1889, 483–89.
6 . Silber: 1987, 100–106.
7 . Recently, Wolfgang Dinglinger has related it to a Corpus Christi procession Felix witnessed in Munich in June 1830 (Dinglinger: 2002, 117); however, Felix completed the score of the symphony in mid-May.
8 . Jourdan: 2000, 118.
9 . For the rejected recitative, see Silber: 1987, 129–33.
10 . E. Devrient, Recollections , 97.
11 . Berlin, MN 56. See Cooper: 2002, 300–317; and Seaton: 2002, 214–17.
12 . Schubring, “Reminiscences,” 229. Rust’s father was the Dessau violinist F. W. Rust (1739–1796), whose sonatas attracted attention late in the nineteenth century when his grandson, Wilhelm Rust, heralded them as anticipating romanticism. But Wilhelm Rust had rewritten and doctored several of the compositions, which were exposed in the twentieth century as a hoax.
13 . May 18, 1830, MLL , 118.
14 . From Faust II, Act I. MDM d. 8, fols. 16–17; for a facs. see Wolff: 1906, 81.
15 . May 25, 1830, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: 1865, Letters , 8. The drawing, by Johann Joseph Schmeller, is in the Stiftung Weimarer Klassik, Weimar. For a facs., see Kleßmann, 181.
16 . Letter of May 25, 1830, in Sutermeister, 21.
17 . Albumblatt , ed. J. Draheim, Wiesbaden, 1984.
18 . Ottilie von Goethe, ed., Chaos , modern rep. ed. by Reinhard Fink, Bern, 1968.
19 . Chaos , first series (1830), Nos. 36 and 43, 142–43 and 170–71.
20 . Kretschman, 306.
21 . June 22, 1830, Felix to Zelter, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Reisebriefe , 18.
22 . H. A. Köstlin, “Josephine Lang,” Sammlung musikalischer Vorträge , ed. P. Waldersee, Leipzig, 1881, 59.
23 . Letter of July 23, 1830 (NYPL No. 110).
24 . MDM g. 2. For an edition of the diary, see Zappalà: 2002.
25 . Felix to Rebecka, June 15, 1830, in Silber: 1987, 225; Lea to Felix, June 22, 1830, MDM, GB II, 38.
26 . The autograph, BN Ms. 198, is dated June 13, 1830.
27 . A. B. Marx to Fanny Hensel, July 21, 1830, MF I, 261.
28 . MDM d. 8, fol. 66v–67.
29 . Berlin, MA Depos. 500, 22 (entry for August 6, 1830).
30 . Felix to Fanny, June 14, 1830, Sutermeister, 29.
31 . S. Hensel: 1911, 13.
32 . Felix to Fanny, June 26, 1830; MF I, 266–70.
33 . Felix to Rebecka, August 22, 1830; MLL , 132.
34 . Ibid., 134.
35 . Felix to Devrient, September 5, 1830, in E. Devrient, Recollections , 109–10.
36 . February 18, 1836, Felix to Lea, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1868, 99.
37 . See Herfrid Kier, Raphael Georg Kiesewetter (1773–1850): Wegbereiter des musikalischen Historismus , Regensburg, 1968.
38 . See Hanslick, trans. in MahW , 275–309.
39 . On the provenance of the sketchbook see Douglas Johnson, Alan Tyson, and Robert Winter, The Beethoven Sketchbooks , Berkeley, 1985, 253–59.
40 . Rollett, 35–36. Rollett, who attended the event, misdated it to the year 1829.
41 . Felix to Paul, September 27, 1830, in Selden-Goth, 84.
42 . Unpublished letters to Lea and Abraham of September 10 and 11, 1830 (NYPL Nos. 118 and 119).
43 . See R. L. Todd: 1983b. The painting is now known to be by Antonio del Castillo y Saavedra.
44 . Felix to Fanny, August 22, 1830, MLL , 136. See also the Preface to my edition of the cantata (Madison, Wisc., 1981), viii–ix.
45 . Letter of September 26, 1841, Schumann to Krüger, in Jansen, 207.
46 . Felix to Abraham, October 6, 1830 (NYPL No. 121).
47 . October 18, 1830 (NYPL No. 122).
48 . October 10 and 16, 1830, in Sutermeister, 42; Selden-Goth, 89.
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