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Mendelssohn: A Life in Music

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by Todd, R. Larry


  139 . Chorley, Modern German Music , I, 51.

  140 . For a full account of the affair, see Werner: 1963, 327–31.

  141 . F. Moscheles: 1888, 198.

  142 . MDM c. 49, fols. 24–26. Felix to Klingemann, January 2, 1840, Klingemann, 242.

  143 . Hiller, Letters , 160–61.

  144 . Beilage for June 5, 1839, AmZ 41 (1839), after col. 452.

  145 . Chorley, Modern German Music , II, 33.

  146 . November 14 and 22, 1839; DSB MN 31 (Berlin) and 34 (Kraków).

  147 . The exception is the Lerchengesang , Op. 48 No. 4, designed as a round-like canon.

  148 . Hiller, Letters , 152.

  149 . Radcliffe: 1954, 133; Werner: 1963, 355.

  150 . See also Douglass Seaton, “Mendelssohn’s Cycles of Songs,” in Cooper and Prandi, 204–6.

  Chapter 12

  1 . Klingemann, 264.

  2 . AmZ 42 (1840), 53.

  3 . Ibid., 117.

  4 . See Todd: 1991c, 196–203.

  5 . AmZ 42 (1840), 227. According to Heinrich Brockhaus, the public was so “electrified” that it succumbed to a Mendelssohnmanie and demanded the encore of the Bach. Brockhaus, I, 385.

  6 . Ibid., 164–65.

  7 . Cooper: 1997, 157–79.

  8 . Georg Feder cites forty arrangements in “Geschichte der Bearbeitungen von Bachs Chaconne,” Bach-Interpretationen , ed. M. Geck, Göttingen, 1969, 168–89.

  9 . See especially Peter Ward Jones: 1992, 248–50.

  10 . J. Alfred Novello to Felix, February 18, 1840, MDM, GB XI, 63.

  11 . H. Probst to Breitkopf & Härtel, February 22, 1840, in H. Lenneberg, ed. and trans., Breitkopf und Härtel in Paris: The Letters of Their Agent Heinrich Probst between 1833 and 1840 , Stuyvesant, N.Y., 1990, 73.

  12 . Felix to Edward Buxton, February 25, 1840, LC (Music 1055).

  13 . John Thomson to Felix, March 13, 1840, MDM, GB XI, 125.

  14 . February 14, 1840, Felix to Klingemann, Klingemann, 243.

  15 . Felix to Joseph Mendelssohn, February 20, 1840, in Gilbert: 1975, 128–30. See also Brockhaus I, 388 (March 28, 1840).

  16 . Hiller, Letters , 169–70. One of Felix’s Boccaccio translations appeared in Reissmann, 319–20.

  17 . Sederholm to Felix, November 11, 1838, MDM GB 8, 115. See also Sposato: 2000, 452–53.

  18 . Gollmick, II, 106.

  19 . Chorley to Felix, November 3, 1839, MDM GB X, 120.

  20 . February 28, 1840, Felix to Chorley, in H. F. Chorley: 1873, I, 309–10.

  21 . Schubring to Felix, February 19–21, 1840, in Schubring: 1892, 156–57.

  22 . See Bonds, 81.

  23 . See the detailed accounts in Wm. A. Little: 1992; and Alan Walker, 345–51.

  24 . NZfM 12 (1840), 103.

  25 . Hiller, Letters , 164–65.

  26 . Ibid., 165.

  27 . Litzmann, I, 414.

  28 . D’Agoult, I, 414.

  29 . Felix to Paul, March 20, 1840, NYPL No. 576.

  30 . Litzmann, I, 416.

  31 . F. Max Müller, Auld Lang Syne , N.Y., 1898, in MahW , 253.

  32 . Felix’s invitation to the orchestra is in MDM GB XI, 97.

  33 . Details in Felix’s letter to Rebecka, March 30, 1840 (NYPL No. 436), cited in Little: 1992, 115–16.

  34 . AmZ 42 (1840), 297; NZfM 12 (1840), 118.

  35 . Felix to Moscheles, March 21, 1840, in Moscheles, 204.

  36 . Ibid., 203.

  37 . Hiller, Letters , 167.

  38 . NZfM 39 (1853), 6.

  39 . Therese Marx, 22–24.

  40 . See Smither, IV, 69ff.; and Zywietz.

  41 . April 18, 1840, Cécile to Madame Jeanrenaud, MDM d. 40, fols. 18–19.

  42 . Entries of April 21, 26, 27, May 5, 9, 17 and 18, 1840, in Clara Wieck’s diary (Zwickau, Robert-Schumann Haus).

  43 . May 10, 1840, Felix to Adam, in Tiersot, II, 333. Adam recorded the beginning of a Christe eleison in Cécile’s album (MDM c. 21, fol. 172); Felix reciprocated by inserting his Lied “O könnt ich zu dir fliegen” in the album of Adam’s traveling companion, Mlle. Chérie Couraud.

  44 . May 24, 1840, Felix to Lea, NYPL No. 434; AmZ 42 (1840), 769–70.

  45 . Felix to Falkenstein, April 8, 1840, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1868, 183–88.

  46 . The guidelines appeared in the Festschrift zum 75-jährigen Bestehen des Königl. Konservatoriums der Musik zu Leipzig , Leipzig, 1918, 76–77.

  47 . See the thorough discussion of the festival in Bonds, 80ff., and the account in Brockhaus I, 396–401.

  48 . Felix to Lea, June 22, 1840, NYPL No. 438.

  49 . Entry of June 24, 1840, in Clara Wieck’s diary (Zwickau, Robert-Schumann Haus).

  50 . AmZ 43 (1841), 822.

  51 . Felix to Buxton, April 30, 1843, Yale University, New Haven, Conn., Koch Collection.

  52 . MT 38 (1897), 810.

  53 . See the excellent discussion of the reception history in Bonds, 74–80.

  54 . A. B. Marx, “Ueber die Form der Symponie-Cantate. Auf Anlass von Beethoven’s neunter Symphonie,” AmZ 49 (1847), 489–98, 505–11.

  55 . Fétis, Biographie universelle , Paris, 1864, VI, 81.

  56 . NZfM 13 (1840), 13.

  57 . Hauptmann to Hauser, December 10, 1841, in A. Schöne, ed., The Letters of a Leipzig Cantor, Being the Letters of Moritz Hauptmann to Franz Hauser, Ludwig Spohr, and Other Musicians , trans. A. D. Coleridge, London, 1892; N.Y., 1972, I, 233; and Hans von Bülow, Briefe und Schriften , ed. M. von Bülow, Leipzig, 1896, III, 371. Felix’s Fremdenliste includes an entry for “v. Bülow (Dresden)” on April 3, 1840.

  58 . Felix to Klingemann, February 16 and November 18, 1840, in Klingemann, 243 and 251.

  59 . The autograph Ms. in Kraków, BJ, MN 34, is dated November 27, 1840.

  60 . Bonds, 108.

  61 . Ibid., 87–96.

  62 . Felix to Chorley, July 21, 1840, in Chorley: 1873, 314–20.

  63 . Felix to Lea, August 10, 1840, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 188.

  64 . See Pape.

  65 . NZfM 13 (1840), 56 (August 15, 1840).

  66 . See Todd: 1995.

  67 . NZfM 13 (1840), 56.

  68 . September 7, 1840, Felix to Klingemann, Klingemann, 247.

  69 . F. Hensel, 196 (entry of September 15, 1840).

  70 . Fanny to Felix, September 23, 1839, in Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, 317.

  71 . MF II, 97–98.

  72 . “Votre frère,” Ingres referred to him, “qui joue si bien de la basse.” Fanny to Lea Mendelssohn Bartholdy, December 8, 1839, in Fanny Hensel: 2002b, 27.

  73 . MF II, 108.

  74 . Kupferstich-Kabinett SMPK, Berlin; see Lowenthal-Hensel: 1997, 18.

  75 . Felix to Lea, September 18, 1840, NYPL No. 444.

  76 . Dickens, Hard Times , ch. 5.

  77 . I. Moscheles, 268.

  78 . See F. G. Edwards, “Elizabeth Mounsey,” MT 46 (1905), 718–21.

  79 . I. Moscheles, 270.

  80 . Ibid, 271.

  81 . AmZ 42 (1840), 970.

  82 . Ibid., 1007–10.

  83 . See Lockwood; and Todd: 1997, 187ff.

  84 . K. Olsen and H. Topsøe-Jensen, ed., H. C. Andersens Dagbøger : 1825–1875, Copenhagen, 1977, II, 51–52.

  85 . MN 34 (Kraków, BJ).

  86 . Felix to Lea, December 27, 1840, (NYPL), published with the incorrect date of October 27 in P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1868, 192–93.

  87 . MF II, 250.

  88 . Barclay, 68ff.

  89 . Felix to Paul, March 3 [recte 4], 1841, NYPL No. 589, published in part in P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: 1868, 225. Jakoby’s pamphlet was banned, and he was prosecuted, though ultimately acquitted, for lèse majesté .

  90 . See C. H. Porter, The Rhine as Musical Metaphor , Boston, 1996, 39ff.

  91 . Felix to Paul, November 20, 1840, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: 1868, 202; in February 1840 Felix had set Carl Simrock’s poem Warnung vor dem Rhein , published posthum
ously in 1849, but its text deals with the Lorelei legend, not the threat of French aggression.

  92 . Josias Freiherr von Bunsen, aus seinen Briefen geschildert von seiner Witwe , Leipzig, 1869, II, 142; see also Dinglinger: 1997b, 23–25.

  93 . MDM GB XII, 141.

  94 . Felix to Paul, December 20, 1840, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1868, 205–7.

  95 . Fanny to Felix, December 5, 1840, in Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, 347.

  96 . Kraków, BJ, MN 34. A fair copy was finished two days later (BL Add. 31801). See Brodbeck: 1991, 43–64.

  97 . Unpublished portion of Felix to Paul, January 9, 1841, NYPL No. 587.

  98 . Felix to Klingemann, March 10, 1841, Klingemann, 257–79.

  99 . P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1868, 233–35; for a facs., see Wolff: 1909, facing p. 148.

  100 . E. Devrient, Recollections , 221.

  101 . Felix to Paul, June 5, 1841, NYPL No. 596; Felix to Moscheles, June 15, F. Moscheles, 223–24. See also F. Hensel, 201 (entry of January 20, 1841).

  102 . Felix to Klingemann, July 15, 1841, Klingemann, 264; Felix to Paul, June 15, 1841, MLL , 252–54.

  103 . Reissmann, 230.

  104 . SBB MA Ep. 376; facs. in Klein: 1997, 233.

  105 . Heinrich Brockhaus, Tagebücher , I, 429.

  106 . Felix to Spohr, January 8, 1841, MDM c. 42, fols. 25–26.

  107 . NZfM 14 (1841), 88.

  108 . Felix to Fanny, February 14, 1841, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1868, 221.

  109 . Ibid., 222.

  110 . Kraków, BJ, MN 35.

  111 . See Daverio: 1997, 229ff.

  112 . Schumann, Tagebücher II, 122–23.

  113 . See Todd, “Zu Mendelssohns ‘Allegro brillant’ op. 92: Ein Duo für Clara Schumann,” forthcoming in the Kongreß-Bericht of the Leipziger Mendelssohn Festtage 1997.

  114 . In an edition by E.-G. Heinemann (Munich, 1994).

  115 . Felix to Paul, January 2, 1841, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1868, 209.

  116 . See further the program notes to accompany Christoph Spering’s recording of the 1841 version (Paris, Opus 111, 1992).

  117 . Felix to Eduard Bendemann, April 15, 1841, LA , 35. The March was evidently performed in Weimar on April 19, after Felix had returned to Leipzig. The author is grateful to Ralf Wehner for this information.

  118 . AmZ 43 (1841), 613.

  119 . No. 2 (February 24, 1835, MDM c. 1); No. 1 (February 28, 1839, MDM Horsley b. 1, fols. 17–18); and No. 3 (March 14, 1839, Berlin MN 31, 115–18).

  120 . Horsley, in MahW , 241.

  121 . Dresden, Sächsische Landesbibliothek, Mus. 5543 (May 1, 1841).

  122 . See LA , 233 n. 26. In 1842 Simrock brought out six of the Lieder ohne Worte with Christern’s texts. See Cooper: 1998.

  123 . BJ MN 35, p. 36.

  124 . For a facsimile of the title page and thorough discussion of this source, see Jost: 1992.

  125 . MDM d. 68; reproduced in Marek, 260.

  126 . Dibdin to Felix, May 25 and June 19, 1841, in GB XIII, 147 and 258.

  127 . The prelude appeared, along with a facsimile of the autograph, in Exeter Hall 1 (1868), 54–57; for a modern ed., see Mendelssohn, Complete Organ Works , I, 91–93, and also MQ 5 (1919), 496–97.

  128 . Felix to Rebecka, July 30, 1841, NYPL No. 508.

  129 . Felix to Kistner, August 7, 1841, in BadV , 311.

  130 . AmZ 44 (1842), 2.

  131 . MDM GB XIV, 47.

  Chapter 13

  1 . P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1868, 289–90.

  2 . August 9, 1841, to David, August 14 and 23 to Verkenius, September 6 to Klingemann, and August 28 to Rebecka; LA , 156, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1868, 241–46, Klingemann, 266, and NYPL No. 515.

  3 . NZfM 15 (1841), 94–95.

  4 . E. Devrient, Recollections , 224.

  5 . From the trans. of Paul Roche, The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles (N.Y., 1958), 210; following quotations from the play are also from Roche’s translation.

  6 . Paulin, 337.

  7 . For a recent study of the composing manuscript, see Boetius.

  8 . Meyerbeer, III, 375.

  9 . Becker, 88.

  10 . Felix to Droysen, December 2, 1841, in Wehmer, 71.

  11 . Steinberg, 137–57.

  12 . E. Devrient, Recollections , 235.

  13 . For an illustration, see Jacob, facing 256.

  14 . Felix to Fanny, March 25, 1845, MF II, 317.

  15 . See Flashar: 1979, 359–60, idem: 1989, 66–81; and Andraschke.

  16 . E. Devrient, Recollections , 225–26.

  17 . On the variety of scorings, see Seaton: 2001b, 197.

  18 . Felix to George Macfarren, December 8, 1844, GM , 166.

  19 . Böckh, “Ueber die Darstellung der Antigone,” AmZ 43 (1841), 965.

  20 . Felix to Droysen, December 2, 1841, Wehmer, 72.

  21 . NZfM 22 (1845), 147; trans. in MahW , 347.

  22 . Berlin, MA Ep. 376.

  23 . Felix to Klingemann, September 6, 1841, Klingemann, 206.

  24 . Felix to the Directeur and Scribe, January 14, 1841, and January 14, 1842, in Tiersot, 333–34.

  25 . Felix to B. Schott, December 28, 1841, BadV , 336.

  26 . Bartholomew to Felix, September 21, 1841, MDM GB XIV, 87.

  27 . Klingemann to Bartholomew, September 18, 1841, in Klingemann, 267.

 

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