[16] The Polish Revolution.
[17] An opera by Kurpinski, performed with great success in Warsaw.
[18] See Moschelesʼs Life.
[19] This work was first performed in England at one of the trials for the Kingʼs Scholarship, at the Royal Academy of Music.—Translatorʼs Note.
[20] The author says, in a note, that he does not know to what critique or to which Mazurkas Elsner refers. There are eight sets of these “cabinet pictures,” as Liszt calls them, and, as one of Chopinʼs most enthusiastic critics remarks, they vividly portray his patriotic and home feelings. He calls them green spots in the desert, quaint snatches of melancholy song, outpourings of an unworldly and trustful soul, musical floods of tears and gushes of pure joyfulness.—Translatorʼs Note.
[21] The God of festive mirth is represented in the Greek mythology as a winged youth.
[22] “Mendelssohnʼs Letters.” Second Series.
[23] This letter bears no date, but was probably written about the end of September, 1835. It is to be found in the autograph collection of Hermann Scholtz, at Dresden.
[24] “Eine Biographie,” von Joseph Wilhelm von Wasietewski, Dresden, 1869.
[25] In what was formerly called the Reichenbach, but now the Gerhard Gardens, there is a monument of Prince Poniatowski, who was drowned in the Elster, October 19th, 1813.