42 . Höffner, 63.
43 . Felix to Abraham, February 21, 1832, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1865, 343; MDM GB II No. 82.
44 . Abraham to Lea, May 22, 1833, MF , I, 281.
45 . Immermann, 119.
46 . April 23, 1833, Felix to Robert Reinick, Berlin Mus. Ep. FMB 12; for an edition of the part-song, see Die Musik 8 (1908–09), Heft 9, appendix, and the brief comments in Kopfermann, 180. The festival included a prologue by Immermann, transparencies of Dürer’s paintings, tableaux vivants, the Musikantenprügelei , and scenes from Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream . Reinick to Franz Kugler, April 16, 1833, in Höffner, 64–65.
47 . Felix to Schubring, September 16, 1835, Schubring: 1892, 92–93. The unpublished orchestral version, titled Fantasie und Variationen über Preziosa , was handed down from Ignaz Moscheles’s estate to the Russian pianist Anton Rubinstein, and has recently come to light in St. Petersburg. See Wehner: 2002a, 14–15.
48 . F. Moscheles: 1888, 64.
49 . I. Moscheles, 195.
50 . Felix to Abraham, May 7, 1833, NYPL No. 160.
51 . See Jourdan, 177; G. I. C. de Courcy, Nicolò Paganini: Chronology of His Life , Wiesbaden, 1961, 59–60.
52 . Felix added the date of revision, April 10, 1833, at the end of his autograph (BN Cons. Ms. 206).
53 . Felix to Watts, April 27, 1833, in Foster, 118.
54 . Ward Jones: 1997c, 72–73.
55 . Felix to Fanny, April 7, 1834, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1868, 31–32.
56 . Atlas , May 19, 1833, 325; see Jourdan, 188–89.
57 . For the program, see Foster, 122; also appearing with Felix were the singers Rubini and Cinti-Damoreau, and the violinist Charles De Beriot.
58 . Morning Post (May 16, 1833); Jourdan: 1998, 188.
59 . Berlin, MN 28 (July 1834).
60 . The history of the work is treated in Cooper: 1994 and 2003, and the prefatory studies in Cooper and Klein.
61 . See further Spies, 103–4.
62 . Werner: 1963, 267; Konold: 1987, 28–29.
63 . As reported by Tovey, in Essays in Musical Analysis , London, 1935–39, rep. 1981, 393–94.
64 . See Michael C. Tusa, “In Defense of Weber,” in R. L. Todd, ed., Nineteenth-Century Piano Music , N.Y., 1990, 166–68; and Cooper: 2003, 188–90.
65 . The passage (mm. 195ff.) seems to have inspired a similar response by Tchaikovsky in the finale of the Capriccio Italien (1880); see mm. 500ff.
66 . Pocket diary, MDM g. 4, 13v.
67 . For the complete text, see Fischer, 14–15.
68 . Abraham to Lea, May 31, 1833; MF I, 292; text corrected in Klein: 1999, 49–75.
69 . Abraham to Lea, May 26, 1833; MF I, 283.
70 . Ibid., 283, 285.
71 . Ferdinand von Woringen, “Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy in Düsseldorf in den Jahren 1833–35,” Neue Berliner Musikzeitung 1/48, November 16, 1847, trans. in Brown: 2003, 127.
72 . See Großmann-Vendrey: 1969, 71–72.
73 . See Klein: 1999, 74–75.
74 . A. F. Schindler, Beethoven as I Knew Him , ed. D. W. MacArdle, N.Y., 1966, 436–37.
75 . Düsseldorfer Zeitung (June 5, 1833), cited in Esser, 6.
76 . Abraham to Lea, ca. June 1833 (MF I, 292).
77 . Felix to Moscheles, August 10, 1832, F. Moscheles: 1888, 29. See also 65.
78 . Fuga pro organo pleno and Andante con moto , in the fifth volume of Wm. A. Little’s edition of the organ works (1990), 60–66. On Novello’s album, see Pamela Weston, “Vincent Novello’s Autograph Album: Inventory and Commentary,” ML 75 (1994), 372.
79 . For a facsimile see F. Moscheles: 1888, 62.
80 . MDM g. 4, fol. 17r; Abraham to Lea, July 6, 1833, MF I, 299.
81 . MF I, 298.
82 . Abraham to Lea, July 13, 1833, Klein: 2001, 105.
83 . According to Abraham (MF I, 301), the soirée occurred on July 6, but other evidence suggests July 9. See Weston (n. 78), 376.
84 . M. C. Clarke, The Life and Labours of Vincent Novello , London, 1864, 36–37.
85 . Times , July 17, 1833, 2.
86 . Felix to Berlin, July 23, 1833, NYPL No. 165.
87 . See Sposato: 2000, ch. 1, for a thorough review of the episode.
88 . E. Devrient, Recollections , 57.
89 . Abraham to Lea, July 23, 1833, in Klein: 2001, 109–10.
90 . Two autographs, of which the Horsleys owned one, bear the date August 3, 1833 (Berlin N. Mus. Ms. 79 and Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ms. Horsley b. 1).
91 . Fanny Horsley to Lucy Calcott, August 28, 1833, in Gotch, 70.
92 . BadV , 29–30; Gotch, 70.
93 . Letter of ca. July 25, 1833, in Gotch, 46.
94 . See Alexander: 1975, 75ff.
95 . Mary Alexander to Felix, August 23, 1833, in ibid., 78.
96 . MF I, 307.
97 . Felix to Rosen, September 27, 1833; Klingemann, 118.
98 . Meyerbeer to Minna Meyerbeer, May 3, 1833, in Giacomo Meyerbeer, II, 311. The patent, dated May 2, 1833, is in MDM a.1 (Roll), No. 1.
99 . Felix to Abraham, December 28, 1833, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1868, 14.
100 . See Schneider: 1958, 47.
101 . Felix to Schubring, September 6, 1833, in P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1868, 6.
102 . Felix to Rebecka Dirichlet, October 26, 1833, ibid., 8. The march remains unidentified; a possible candidate is a copy of a procession march in E ♭ attributed to Felix in MDM c. 50/2, fol. 72.
103 . See further Federhofer-Königs.
104 . Großmann-Vendrey: 1969, 218–19.
105 . October 26, 1833, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1868, 10.
106 . See ibid.; Höffner, 73–80; and Cooper: 1995, 9–26.
107 . October 26, 1833, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1868, 12.
108 . Letter of April 3, 1834, to William Horlsey, GM , 110.
109 . Letter of October 26, 1833, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1868, 13; MDM GB XXVII, No. 55.
110 . Zum Fest der heiligen Cäcilia , ed. Willi Gundlach, Kassel, 1998; see Fanny’s letter of November 23, 1833, to Felix, in Citron: 1987, 117.
111 . Immermann, 133.
112 . Felix to Moscheles, February 7, 1834, F. Moscheles: 1888, 88.
113 . Esser, 19.
114 . Felix to Moscheles, February 7, 1834, F. Moscheles: 1888, 87.
115 . Felix to Abraham, December 28, 1833, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1868, 17.
116 . Felix to Breitkopf & Härtel, November 29, 1833, BadV , 31.
117 . See Mintz: 1957.
118 . R. Schumann: 1888, I, 144 (NZfM 4 [1836], 7); see further Plantinga: 1984, 14.
119 . R. Schumann: 1888, I, 142; also, Felix to Fanny, January 30, 1836, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1868, 96.
120 . Fanny Horsley to Lucy Calcott, October 20, 1833; Gotch, 78.
121 . April 7, 1834, Felix to Fanny, Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, 159.
122 . April 1834, Felix to Charlotte Moscheles, F. Moscheles: 1888, 99.
123 . See Fanny’s letters to Felix of April 27 and June 18, 1834, in Citron: 1987, 137–38, 147–48.
124 . January 16, 1834, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1868, 22.
125 . January 22, 1834, Berlin MN 28.
126 . Berlin MN 20.
127 . Klingemann, 127–66.
128 . Alexander: 1975, 87. Suzanne Summerville has edited the songs in Three Poems by Heinrich Heine in the Translations of Mary Alexander by Fanny Hensel , Fairbanks, Alas., 1995.
129 . Letter of November 9, 1833; Gilbert: 1975, 93–94.
130 . Fanny to Felix, December 1, 1833, Citron: 1987, 118.
131 . December 1, 1833, Citron: 1987, 118–19.
132 . December 28, 1833, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1868, 17; and February 19, 1834 (NYPL No. 182).
133 . F. W. Riemer, Mittheilungen über Goethe , Berlin, 1841, I, 430.
134 . See his letter of January 13,
1834, to Mary Alexander, in Alexander: 1979, 15–16.
135 . Felix to Berlin, March 28, 1834, NYPL No. 187.
136 . Felix to Berlin, July 17, 1834, NYPL No. 205.
137 . Hiller, Letters and Recollections , 39.
138 . Polko: 1987, 37.
139 . The two arrangements are in the Brotherton Collection, University of Leeds, and BN, Conservatoire Ms. 94. See Wehner: 2002, 156–61.
140 . See further Todd: 1993, 22.
141 . February 7, 1834, to I. Moscheles, F. Moscheles: 1888, 85.
142 . He did so at a Gewandhaus concert of April 4, 1839. See NZfM 10 (1839), 128.
143 . February 19, 1834, Felix to Lea (NYPL No. 182); the autograph of Infelice is in MN 28.
144 . Claves Recording, 1999. See also J. M. Cooper, “Mendelssohn’s Two Infelice Arias: Problems of Sources and Musical Identity,” in Cooper and Prandi, 43–97.
145 . The Lieder ohne Worte Op. 30 No. 5 (December 12, 1833), 30 No. 4 (January 30), and 85 No. 2 (June 9); Capriccio in A minor, Op. 33 No. 1 (April 9); Etude in F major, Op. 104b No. 2 (April 21); and the organ Fugue in C minor, Op. 37 No. 1 (July 30, 1834).
146 . October 5, 1833, Schubring to Felix, in Schubring: 1892, 48–63.
147 . See Felix’s letter to Lea of November 4, 1834 (P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: 1868, 49), where, however, he confuses the scriptural citation, and associates Paul with Jupiter.
148 . January 12 and 13 in Elberfeld and Barmen; February 27 and March 9 in Cologne and Elberfeld.
149 . Fétis, “Mendelssohn-Bartholdy,” in Biographie universelle des musiciens , Paris, 1864, VI, 79.
150 . Felix to Lea, May 23, 1834. P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1868, 34.
151 . November 19, 1834, Felix to Mde. Voigt, and March 14, 1835, Felix to Hiller; “More Letters by Mendelssohn,” Dwight’s Journal of Music 31 (1871), 58, and Hiller, Letters , 47.
152 . MDM c. 49, fol. 16v.
153 . See Esser, 13–15.
154 . May 6, 1834, to Lea, NYPL No. 192.
155 . Concerning Burgmüller see Heinrich Eckert, Norbert Burgmüller , Augsburg, 1932.
156 . Felix to Bauer, January 12, 1835, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1868, 63.
157 . Schumann: 1980, 102.
158 . Ferdinand von Woringen: 1847, cited in Brown: 2002, 130.
159 . See Großmann-Vendrey: 1969, 61.
160 . Probably one of the three marches in MDM c. 50/2.
161 . October 12, 1834, MLL , 200.
162 . Webern, 71–72.
163 . March 28, 1834, Felix to Abraham, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1868, 26.
164 . MF I, 100.
165 . MN 20, 51–52, finished on December 9, 1833, and performed on April 26, 1834.
166 . Felix to Abraham, March 28, 1834, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1868, 28.
167 . March 10, April 24, and June 7, 1834; LC (Music 1055); only the first has been published (MLL , 194–96).
168 . Felix to E. Devrient, November 26, 1834, E. Devrient, Recollections , 185.
169 . September 27, 1834, Felix to H. Baermann, Nohl: 1873, 323.
170 . F. Hensel: 2002, 61 (entries of September 29 and November 20, 1834).
171 . Felix to Abraham, October 14, 1834 (NYPL No. 210).
172 . Diary of Clara Wieck, October 2, 1834, cited in N. Reich: 1985, 218.
173 . The librettist, Friedrich Rochlitz, had earlier offered the subject to Felix, already underway with Paulus . See Ernst Rychnowsky, “Ludwig Spohr und Friedrich Rochlitz,” Sammelbände der Internationalen Musikgesellschaft 5 (1903–4), 284.
174 . Among Felix’s papers is his refutation of claims made by Immermann concerning Felix’s duties (MDM c. 49, fols. 9–14).
175 . Recently rediscovered at the Brotherton Collection in the University of Leeds. For a full account, see Wehner: 2002.
176 . November 4, 1834, Felix to Lea, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1868, 48.
177 . November 26, 1834, Felix to E. Devrient, E. Devrient, Recollections , 185.
178 . Undated letter (1835?), Abraham to Felix, cited in P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Briefe , 1865, 68n.
179 . November 23, 1834, Felix to Rebecka, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1868, 55.
180 . Immermann, 420–23.
181 . January 26, 1835, Felix to Lea (NYPL No. 222).
182 . Immermann, 427, 428–38, 441–50. See also Fellner, 302–9.
183 . February 26, 1835, Felix to Abraham (NYPL No. 224).
184 . Cited in Benno von Wiese, Karl Immermann: Sein Werk und sein Leben , Bad Homburg, 1969, 158.
185 . Chrysander: 1870.
186 . Reproduced in color in Petitpierre, Romance , 120.
187 . February 11, 1835, Felix to Fanny, Berlin, MA Depos. Berlin 3, 7 (Klein: 1997, 172).
188 . February 26, 1835, Felix to Hiller, Hiller, Letters , 45.
189 . December 25, 1834, and February 7, 1835, Felix to Ignaz and Charlotte Moscheles (F. Moscheles: 1888, 119 and 129), February 26, 1835, Felix to Hiller, Hiller, Letters , 44.
190 . Ed. Günter Marx, Wiesbaden, 1988. Recent research has shown that two of the movements of the quartet are based on an unfinished piano sonata from 1829. See Hellwig-Unruh: 2000, 222, 254, and the literature cited therein.
191 . January 30, 1835, Felix to Fanny, Berlin MA Depos. MG 28 (Klein: 1997, 188).
192 . February 17, 1835, Fanny to Felix, Citron: 1987, 173. See also 255.
193 . July 17, 1833, Felix to Charlotte Moscheles (F. Moscheles: 1888, 74); November 23, 1834, Felix to Rebecka, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1868, 57.
194 . Berlin MN 28, 143–44.
195 . Isaac Nathan, A Selection of Hebrew Melodies, Ancient and Modern , ed. Frederick Burwick and Paul Douglass, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1988, 29; see also Hennemann, 143.
196 . BN Bibliothèque du Conservatoire Ms. 200/201 (May 22, 1835).
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