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Mendelssohn: A Life in Music

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by Todd, R. Larry


  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.

  Chapter 11

  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.

 

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