On the 29th of August Mendelssohn left London; and after a short stay in Berlin, he proceeded to Düsseldorf to assume his new duties as “Musikdirector.” He had accepted this position for three years, at a salary of six hundred thalers per annum, with three months’ leave of absence.
The original score of his Overture to the “Isles of Fingal” he gave to Moscheles. We reproduce
10. Fac-simile of Humorous Note. ([See page 70].)
the first page of it. On perusing it some fifty years after it was written, Gounod made the note at the foot.[23]
Sept. 13, 1833.