Letters of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy from 1833 to 1847
MENDELSSOHN’S LETTERS, FROM 1833 TO 1847.
“AND AFTER THE FIRE THERE CAME A STILL SMALL VOICE AND IN THAT STILL SMALL VOICE ONWARDS CAME THE LORD.” ELIJAH
EDITED BY PAUL MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY, OF BERLIN; AND DR. CARL MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY, OF HEIDELBERG: WITH A CATALOGUE OF ALL HIS MUSICAL COMPOSITIONS COMPILED BY DR. JULIUS RIETZ. Translated BY L A D Y W A L L A C E. LONDON: LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, ROBERTS, & GREEN. 1863. PRINTED BY JOHN EDWARD TAYLOR, LITTLE QUEEN STREET, LINCOLN’S INN FIELDS.
The Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland, have amply fulfilled the purpose of their publication, by making him personally known to the world, and, above all, to his countrymen.
Those Letters, however, comprise only a portion of the period of Mendelssohn’s youth; and it has now become possible, by the aid of his own verbal delineations, to exhibit in a complete form that picture of his life and character which was commenced in the former volume.
This has been distinctly kept in view in the selection of the following letters. They commence directly after the termination of the former volume, and extend to Mendelssohn’s death. They accompany him through the most varied relations of his life and vocation, and thus lay claim, at least partially, to another kind of interest from that of the period of gay, though not insignificant enjoyment, depicted by him in the letters written during his travels. For example, the negotiations on the subject of his appointment at Berlin take up a large space; but this is inevitable, so characteristic are they of the manner in which he conceived and conducted such matters, while they reveal to us much that lies outside his own personal character, and thus possess a more than merely biographical value.
On the other hand, the minute details of the pure and elevated happiness which Mendelssohn enjoyed in his most intimate domestic relations, are expressly withheld, as being the peculiar treasure of his family, and a few passages only have been selected for publication from these letters, which however are sufficiently clear on the point. In conclusion, it should be observed, that no letter addressed to any living person has been published without express permission readily accorded.
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
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PREFACE.
To Pastor Bauer, Beszig.
To Pastor Bauer, Beszig.
To Pastor Julius Schubring, Dessau.
To I. Moscheles, London.
To Rebecca Dirichlet, Berlin.
To his Father.
To His Family.
To I. Moscheles, London.
To his Father.
To Fanny Hensel, Berlin.
To his Mother.
To Pastor Julius Schubring, Dessau.
To I. Fürst, Berlin.
To his Parents.
To Pastor Schubring, Dessau.
To his Mother.
To Fanny Hensel, Berlin.
To Rebecca Dirichlet, Berlin.
To Carl Klingemann, London.
To Rebecca Dirichlet, Berlin.
To Pastor Bauer, Beszig.
To Herr Conrad Schleinitz, Leipzig.
To Capellmeister Spohr, Cassel.
To his Father.
To his Father.
To Herr Conrad Schleinitz, Leipzig.
To the Herr Regierungs-Secretair Hixte, Cologne.
To his Family.
To Pastor Julius Schubring, Dessau.
To Pastor Bauer, Beszig.
To Ferdinand Hiller.
To Fanny Hensel, Berlin.
To his Mother.
To his Mother.
To Rebecca Dirichlet, Berlin.
To Rebecca Dirichlet, Berlin.
To Ferdinand Hiller.
To Fanny Hensel, Berlin.
To his Mother.
To his Mother.
To Pastor Julius Schubring, Dessau.
To his Mother.
To Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy.
To Ferdinand Hiller, Milan.
To Edouard Franck, Breslau, (now director of the berne conservatorium.)
To the Hon. Committee of this year’s Lower Rhine Musical Festival.
To Rebecca Dirichlet.
To his Family.
To A. Simrock, Bonn.
To Ferdinand Hiller.
To Concertmeister Ferdinand David, Leipzig.
To Herr Advocat Conrad Schleinitz, Leipzig.
To I. Moscheles, London.
To Pastor Julius Schubring, Dessau.
To his Family.
To Pastor Julius Schubring, Dessau.
To A. Simrock, Bonn.
To his Mother.
To Fanny Hensel, Berlin.
To Carl Klingemann, London.
To his Mother.
To Professor Naumann, Bonn.
To I. Moscheles, London.
To Fanny Hensel, Rome.
To Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy.
To his Mother.
To the Kreis-Director von Falkenstein, Dresden.
To his Mother.
To Fanny Hensel, Berlin.
To his Mother.
To Fanny Hensel, Berlin.
To Carl Klingemann, London.
To Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy.
To Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy.
To Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy.
To Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy.
To Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy.
To Herr X——.
To his Mother.
To Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy.
To Fanny Hensel, Berlin.
To Pastor Julius Schubring, Dessau.
To Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy.
To Julius Rietz, Music Director at Düsseldorf, (now capellmeister at dresden.)
To Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy.
To Carl Klingemann, London.
To Concert-Meister Ferdinand David, Leipzig.
To President Verkenius, Cologne.
To President Verkenius, Cologne.
To Concert-Meister Ferdinand David, Leipzig.
To Professor Köstlin, Tübingen.
To his Mother.
To Carl Eckert, Paris.
To his Mother.
To his Mother.
To A. Simrock, Bonn.
To A. Simrock, Bonn.
To Wirklich Geheimrath Herr von Massow.
To Carl Klingemann, London.
To his Mother.
To Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy.
To His Mother.
To Pastor Julius Schubring, Dessau.
To Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy.
To Professor Köstlin, Tübingen.
To Fanny Hensel, Berlin.
To A. W. Gade, Professor of Music, Copenhagen.
To Carl Klingemann, London.
To Madame Emma Preusser.
To A. W. Gade, Professor of Music, Copenhagen.
To I. Moscheles, London.
To M. Simrock, Bonn.
To G. Otten, Hamburg.
To Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy.
To Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy.
To Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy.
To Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy.
To the King of Prussia.
To the Wirklich Geheimrath Bunsen.
To Julius Stern, Paris, (now professor in berlin.)
To Carl Klingemann, London.
To Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy.
To Fanny Hensel, Berlin.
To Fanny Hensel, Berlin.
To Professor Verhulst, the Hague.
To Minister Eichhorn, Berlin.
To Geheim Cabinetsrath Müller, Berlin.
To I. Moscheles, London.
To Rebecca Dirichlet, Florence.
To Senator Bernus, Frankfort.
To Pastor Bauer, Beszig.
To Pastor Julius Schubring, Dessau.
To I. Moscheles, London.
To Herr Velten, Carlsruhe.
To Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy.
To Frau Doctorin Frege, Leipzig.
To Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy.
To Professor Edward Bendemann.
To Carl Klingemann, London.
To his Brother-in-Law, Professor Dirichlet, Berlin,
To Frau Geheimeräthin Steffens, geb. Reichardt, Berlin.
To his Nephew, Sebastian Hensel.
To his Nephew, Sebastian Hensel.
To Rebecca Dirichlet, Berlin.
To Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy.
To Rebecca Dirichlet.
To Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy.
To General von Webern, Berlin.
To Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy.
PREFACE.
INDEX.
