[21] In the "Liederheft," Opus 15 of his posthumous works.
[22] Ludwig Berger, Mendelssohn's instructor on the piano.
[23] Mendelssohn jokingly alludes to a poem of Bürger,—Der Abt von St. Gallen.
[24] Vide the letter from [Rome] of the 1st of February, 1831.
[25] Felix Mendelssohn, during his stay in Munich, received a commission from the director of the theatre, to write an opera for Munich.
[26] The lady who instructed Mendelssohn in the piano in Paris, when the family resided there for a time in 1816.
[27] Mendelssohn had been thrown out of a cabriolet in London in 1829, and his knee seriously injured.
[28] A "Kinder-Sinfonie," composed by Mendelssohn in the year 1829, for a Christmas family fête.
[29] A play upon Fanny Hensel's house, in a court—No. 3, Leipziger Strasse.
[30] At that time the residence of the St. Simoniens.