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142 . See Todd: 1992c, 186–88; and Isabelle Bélance-Zank, “The Three-Hand Texture: Origins and Use,” Journal of the American Liszt Society , No. 38 (1995), 99–121.
143 . Brockhaus, I, 335.
144 . A facs. of the program is in Klein: 1997, 198–99.
145 . In the Album: Neue Original-Compositionen für Gesang und Piano , Berlin, A. M. Schlesinger, 1836.
146 . March 7, 1837, Felix to Fanny, MF II, 30.
147 . See Klein: 1997, 195–96, with a facsimile of the cover of the album.
148 . March 4, 1837, Felix to Lea, NYPL No. 315.
149 . R. Schumann, Tagebücher I, 31–32.
150 . April 26, 1837, Cécile to Elisabeth Jeanrenaud, in Ward Jones, The Mendelssohns on Honeymoon , 143.
151 . Lampadius, 233.
152 . AmZ 39 (1837), 209–10.
153 . NZfM 7 (1837), 73–75 (September 5, 1837).
154 . Robert Schumann: 1946, 194–95.
155 . Ibid., 198.
156 . Ibid., 198–99.
157 . See the excellent discussion of the nineteenth-century German oratorio in Smither, vol. 4; and Martin Geck, Deutsche Oratorien 1800 bis 1840 : Verzeichnis der Quellen und Aufführungen , Wilhelmshaven, 1971.
158 . AmZ 39 (1837), 522.
159 . Abraham to Felix, March 10, 1835, in P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1868, 70.
160 . Sposato: 2000, ch. 4.
161 . In the following discussion, the numbering of the oratorio’s movements begins with the overture, and includes, for Part 1, Nos. 1–22; for Part 2, Nos. 23–45.
162 . December 20, 1831; Klingemann, 90.
163 . Lampadius, 246.
164 . Sposato: 2000, 487.
165 . Klingemann, “Account of the Musical Festival at Düsseldorf,” Musical World , June 17, 1836, 1.
166 . Smither, IV, 154.
167 . Julius Schubring, “Erinnerungen,” trans. in Todd, MahW , 231.
168 . Jahn: 1866, 34n.
169 . Julius Schubring, “Erinnerungen,” MahW , 231.
170 . Lampadius, 225.
171 . See Carl Dahlhaus: 1974b, 58; and Feder, 97–117.
172 . March 10, 1835, Abraham to Felix, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1868, 67.
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1 . Felix to Moscheles, November 30, 1839, in F. Moscheles: 1888, 194.
2 . March 7, 1837, Felix to Carl Jeanrenaud, HHI, Sig. 52.234; March 24, 1837, Felix to Lea, NYPL No. 316.
3 . Petitpierre, Romance , 145–46.
4 . MDM c. 29, fols. 73–74.
5 . Paul to Cécile, November 11, 1836, cited in Ward Jones, The Mendelssohns on Honeymoon , xxii.
6 . Felix and Cécile to Elisabeth Jeanrenaud, April 15, 1837, ibid., 141.
7 . Entry of March 29, 1837, ibid., 1.
8 . Entry of April 5, 1837, ibid., 5.
9 . No. 1 (1834) was based on a subject upon which Felix had improvised at St. Paul’s in London in 1833; No. 2 was finished on December 1, 1836 (Berlin, MN 29, 121–23); and No. 3, composed in March 1833, was written for Vincent Novello.
10 . April 11, 1837, Felix to Rebecka, in Ward Jones, The Mendelssohns on Honeymoon , 136.
11 . April 27, 1837, Felix to Elisabeth, ibid., 145.
12 . First edited by Leopold Hirschberg for Jede Woche Musik (October 29, 1927), 165–66. For a modern edition see Ward Jones, The Mendelssohns on Honeymoon , 200–202.
13 . Some of his handwritten exercises for her are in MDM c. 29, fols. 1–4.
14 . April 25, 1837, Felix to Simrock, in BadV , 210.
15 . Berlin, MN 29, 135–36.
16 . April 17, 1837, Felix to Breitkopf & Härtel, in BadV , 60-61.
17 . Review of Op. 38 in NZfM 7 (1837), 58; from the trans. in Schumann: 1946, 212.
18 . November 29 and December 12, 1837, Schubring to Felix and Felix to Schubring, in Schubring: 1888, 113 and 116.
19 . See further Jost: 1988, 133–37.
20 . AmZ 39 (1837), 25. Felix’s copy of Op. 23 is in the Bodleian Library, Deneke 57 (10).
21 . Ward Jones, The Mendelssohns on Honeymoon , 49 (June 2, 1837).
22 . Ibid., 57 (June 25, 1837).
23 . June 24, 1837, Felix to Klingemann, in Klingemann, 216.
24 . Ward Jones, The Mendelssohns on Honeymoon , 52 (June 7, 1837).
25 . June 7, 1837, Lea to Felix; MDM GBVI, 44, cited in Citron: 1987, xli, n. 30.
26 . June 24, 1837, Felix to Lea, in Ward Jones, The Mendelssohns on Honeymoon , 167.
27 . MF II, 33.
28 . Now incorporated in SBB, MA Sammelband Ms. 44. See Fanny Hensel, Songs for Pianoforte , vii–xvii, Ch. 10, n. 123.
29 . June 2, 1837, Fanny to Felix; Citron: 1987, 233.
30 . Ward Jones, The Mendelssohns on Honeymoon , 61.
31 . See ibid., 65, fn. 1.
32 . For a facs. see Max F. Schneider: 1960, and Ward Jones, The Mendelssohns on Honeymoon , 66.
33 . SBB MN 29, 145–49.
34 . E. Devrient, Recollections , 94; see also Todd: 1997, 117.
35 . Felix to Klingemann, February 18, 1837; Klingemann, 212.
36 . July 14, 1837, Felix to Schubring, in P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: 1868, 117.
37 . Ward Jones, The Mendelssohns on Honeymoon , 73, fn. 9.
38 . Polko: 1868, 67–68; Ward Jones, The Mendelssohns on Honeymoon , 82 (August 21, 1837).
39 . Entry of August 26–27, 1837, ibid., 86.
40 . The draft survives in MDM c. 27, 42–44, and is transcribed in Sposato: 2000, II, 235ff. See also the diary entries of August 30 and 31 in Ward Jones, The Mendelssohns on Honeymoon , 90–91.
41 . Entry for September 3–4, 1837; ibid., 94.
42 . From an eyewitness account of H. J. Gauntlett in Musical World 6 (1838), 8–10 (September 15, 1837), rep. in Brown: 2003, 213.
43 . Ibid.
44 . The fugue is in BL Ms. Add. 35007, fol. 99b; for the canon (September 7, 1837) see Ludwig Altmann, ed., Samuel Wesley and Dr. Mendelssohn: Three Organ Fugues , London, 1962.
45 . Ward Jones, The Mendelssohns on Honeymoon , 103 (September 11, 1837), and Philip Olleson, “Samuel Wesley,” in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , 2d ed., London, 2001, XXVII, 307.
46 . September 12, 1837; Michael Broyles, ed., A Yankee Musician in Europe: The 1837 Journals of Lowell Mason , Ann Arbor, 1990, 125.
47 . Ward Jones, The Mendelssohns on Honeymoon , 103–5 (entry for September 11, 1837).
48 . Felix to Cécile, n.d., cited in Cécile to Lea, September 21, 1837 (NYPL No. 337), in ibid., 192.
49 . Entry for September 18, 1837, ibid., 109.
50 . See Großmann-Vendrey: 1969, 131.
51 . Communication of Peter Ward Jones.
52 . See Ward Jones: 1992, 246–47.
53 . Felix to Klingemann, November 17, 1837, Klingemann, 224.
54 . Schumann: 1946, 208.
55 . Fanny to Cécile, October 5, 1837, MF II, 36.
56 . Ibid., II, 37.
57 . F. Hensel, 86 (entry of July 8, 1839).
58 . From Clara’s journal, cited in Averil Mackenzie-Grieve, Clara Novello: 1818–1908 , London, 1955, 50.
59 . Felix to J. Alfred Novello, November 18, 1837, ibid., 52. To Felix’s dismay, Novello distributed lithographed facsimiles of the letter to his friends (Ward Jones: 1992, 247).
60 . Mackenzie-Grieve, 54; Felix to Lea, November 13, 1837, NYPL No. 343.
61 . AmZ 39 (1837), 770.
62 . Felix to Fanny, January 13, 1838, Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, 273; Felix to Hiller, January 20, 1838, Hiller, Letters , 111–12.
63 . Felix to Lea, July 22, 1837, Ward Jones, The Mendelssohns on Honeymoon , 177.
64 . Felix to the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde , October 12, 1837, MLL , 236–37.
65 . For a facs. see F. Moscheles: 1888, 161.
66 . Dated autographs for Opp. 59 No. 1, 41 No. 5, 120 Nos. 3 and 1, and 41 No. 1 between November 23, 1837, and January 1838 survive (SBB MN 31, 97; BN Ms. Cons. 197 and 200/201;
SBB MN 29, 143–44; and MDM c. 16).
67 . Felix to Lea, November 13, 1837, NYPL No. 343.
68 . Schumann: 1946, 206.
69 . Radcliffe: 1954, 152.
70 . Werner: 1963, 347.
71 . Hiller, Letters , 93.
72 . Lampadius, 244.
73 . Felix to Klingemann, January 9, 1838, Klingemann, 228; Edwards: 1896, 7–8.
74 . Das Waldschloss and Pagenlied , January 26, 1838.
75 . April 14, 1838, Felix to Hiller, Hiller, Letters , 115; February 8, 1838, Felix to Lea, NYPL 356. See also E. Werner: 1980, 355; and Gantzel-Kress.
76 . Felix to Lea, February 11, 1838, NYPL No. 357; Fanny to Klingemann, February 27, 1838, MF II, 37; Klein: 1997, 194–95.
77 . The Athenaeum (1838), cited in Sirota, 91–92.
78 . GB IV, 208. See Großmann-Vendrey: 1969, 159–60.
79 . Felix to Rebecka, February 24, 1838, NYPL No. 362.
80 . Felix to Droysen, March 5, 1838, in Wehmer, 59.
81 . J. R. Planché, I, 279–316.
82 . Felix to Lea, April 2, 1838, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1868, 135 (NYPL No. 373).
83 . See Hellmundt: 1999, 77–102; an edition is now available (Wiesbaden, 1997).
84 . MF II, 43.
85 . July 15, 1838, Felix to Hiller, Hiller, Letters , 124.
86 . See Lowenthal-Hensel: 1975, 205, n. 13.
87 . See Eric Werner: 1975, 21; Seaton: 1977, 110ff.
88 . Felix to David, July 30, 1838, in LA , 143.
89 . Schumann: 1946, 216.
90 . Werner: 1963, 304.
91 . Felix to Ferdinand David, July 30, 1838, LA , 144.
92 . Fanny to Klingemann, November 30, 1838, MF II, 48. See also F. Hensel, 90–91.
93 . A modern reprint prepared by Rudolf Elvers has been published (Leipzig, 1977).
94 . Fanny to Felix, September 7, 1838, Citron: 1987, 261.
95 . Dörffel, 92.
96 . See Clive Brown: 1984, 216ff.
97 . Felix to Rebecka, April 10, 1839, NYPL No. 400.
98 . See Deutsch: 1952; the important corrective in Krause; and “Briefe Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s an Herrn Professor Ferdinand Schubert in Wien,” Wiener allgemeine Musik-Zeitung 8/4 (1848), 13–14.
99 . Ferdinand Schubert to Felix, April 10, 1839, cited in Krause, 246.
100 . See Todd, “The Unfinished Mendelssohn,” in MahW , 163–84.
101 . See the Foreword to Pietro Zappalà’s edition, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Neun Psalmen und Cantique , Stuttgart, 1997.
102 . AmZ 41 (1839), 176.
103 . “Denn Sein ist das Meer,” Berlin DSB MN 31, 51–66, April 11, 1839, published in an English edition by Sir George Grove (London, 1876).
104 . Felix to Friedrich Kistner, July 14, 1839, BadV , 309.
105 . Felix to Lea, March 18, 1839, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: 1868, 151.
106 . D. F. Tovey, Essays in Musical Analysis: Symphonies and Other Orchestral Works , N.Y., 1981, 404.
107 . Grey: 2001, 488.
108 . April 23, 1839, Felix to Breitkopf & Härtel, BadV , 93.
109 . Oswald Lorenz, rev. of Op. 47 in NZfM 12 (1840), 126; trans. in Seaton: 2001, 699.
110 . June 2, 1839, Felix to Lea, NYPL No. 405.
111 . See Ulrich Tank, Die Geschwister Schloss , Cologne, 1978, 2.
112 . Averil Mackenzie-Grieve, Clara Novello: 1818–1908 , London, 1955, 100–101.
113 . Großmann-Vendrey: 1969, 105–6.
114 . Felix to Lea, June 2, 1839, NYPL No. 405.
115 . Felix to Lea, July 3, 1839, NYPL No. 408.
116 . P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1868, 159–60; and Heinrich Hoffmann, Lebens-Erinnerungen , Frankfurt, 1985, 170.
117 . Abendmusik an der Oberschweinsteige bei Frankfurt , Berlin, SBB, Mendelssohn, 24.
118 . Felix to Klingemann, August 1, 1839, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1868, 157.
119 . Berlin, MN 31, 121–26 (July 13, 14, and 18, 1839); for an edition see Mendelssohn, Complete Organ Works , ed. Wm. A. Little, London, 1989, I, 65–87.
120 . See Parkins and Todd: 1983.
121 . Felix to Fanny, June 18, 1839, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1868, 152–53. Felix was offered an autograph as a gift and chose the chorale preludes (four preludes from the Orgel-Büchlein ), which were inserted in one of Cécile’s albums; recent research, however, has shown them not to be autograph. I am grateful to Peter Ward Jones for this information.
122 . Felix to Ferdinand David, July 24, 1839, LA , 148.
123 . Schumann, review of Op. 49 in NZfM 13 (1840), 198, trans. in Schumann: 1946, 217.
124 . Hiller, Letters , 154–55.
125 . Berlin, MN 31, 129–68.
126 . Felix to Lea, August 5, 1839, NYPL No. 410.
127 . Felix to Lea, August 16, 1839, NYPL No. 411.
128 . The dated autograph is in Berlin, MN 31.
129 . Grove: 1890, II, 304.
130 . Dinglinger: 1993b, 117.
131 . Sposato: 2000, 485.
132 . See further the analysis in Dinglinger: 1993b, 146.
133 . AmZ 42 (1840), 27–28.
134 . NZfM 12 (1840), 144.
135 . F. Hensel, 94 (entry of August 27, 1839).
136 . Henry F. Chorley, Modern German Music , London, 1854, I, 9.
137 . Ibid., 7–54; AmZ 41 (1839), 791–97; and Felix to Lea, September 11, 1839, NYPL No. 412.
138 . See David B. Levy, “Wolfgang Robert Griepenkerl and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony,” in Essays on Music for Charles Warren Fox , ed. J. C. Graue et al ., Rochester, 1979, 103–13.