49 . Felix to Zelter, October 16, 1830, in Selden-Goth, 90.
50 . Abraham to Felix, March 10, 1835, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Letters : 1868, 68.
51 . December 28, 1830, and February 15, 1831, in Sutermeister, 100, and MLL , 155.
52 . Felix to Paul, October 30, 1830, MLL , 130.
53 . Letter of November 8, 1830, Sutermeister, 65.
54 . Zelter to Goethe, November 2, 1830, Hecker, III, 327.
55 . November 8, 1830, Sutermeister, 63.
56 . Memorie storico-critiche della vita e delle opere di Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina , Rome, 1828.
57 . Santini to Zelter, ca. 30 December 1830, Hecker, III, 358.
58 . SBB MA Ep. 380; for a facs. see Klein: 2002, 49.
59 . November 23, 1830, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1865, 68.
60 . November 30, 1830, ibid., 70.
61 . February 15, 1831, in MLL , 159.
62 . Gert Schiff, “An Epoch of Longing: An Introduction to German Painting of the Nineteenth Century,” in German Masters of the Nineteenth Century , N.Y., 1981, 16.
63 . Felix to Abraham, December 11, 1830, Sutermeister, 87.
64 . February 1, 1831, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1865, 107.
65 . December 10 and 20, 1830, and March 1, 1831, Sutermeister, 83, 96, 115.
66 . Armand Dayot, Les Vernet , Paris, 1898, 126.
67 . See “A Long-Lost Portrait of Mendelssohn,” MT 46 (1905), 165–66; unpublished letter of September 16, 1831 (NYPL No. 136).
68 . January 17, 1831; P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: 1865, Letters , 104.
69 . August 27, 1830, MF , I, 257.
70 . Cairns, 193.
71 . May 6, 1831, Berlioz to Gounet et alia ; Hector Berlioz, Correspondance Générale I: 1803–1832 , ed. Pierre Citron, Paris, 1972, 441.
72 . Cairns, 293.
73 . Ibid., 168n.
74 . Ibid., 293.
75 . March 15, 1831, Sutermeister, 120.
76 . March 29, 1831, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1865, 126.
77 . December 11, 1830, ibid., 87.
78 . Goethe, Italian Journey , trans. W. H. Auden and E. Mayer, N.Y., 1962, 450.
79 . Felix to Abraham, February 15, 1831, in MLL , 157–58.
80 . June 16, 1831, to Zelter, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: 1865, Letters , 184–85.
81 . Ibid.
82 . April 4, 1831, ibid., 134; see also June 16, 1831.
83 . November 22, 1830, MLL , 144.
84 . NZfM 12 (1840), 144.
85 . Zappalà: 1991, 126.
86 . December 20, 1830, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1865, 90.
87 . The unpublished autograph is in Berlin, MN 49.
88 . October 18, 1830; NYPL (No. 122).
89 . No autograph survives of the first version; a manuscript copy bearing the title is in MDM d. 58.
90 . See Todd: 1993, 81.
91 . A facs. of the autograph, now in PML, was published by Hugo von Mendelssohn Bartholdy in 1947.
92 . See E. Walker and Abraham.
93 . February 25, 1831; MDM d. 13; see Todd: 1993, 33–34.
94 . June 6, 1831, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1865, 164.
95 . May 17, 1831, ibid., 151.
96 . April 27, 1831, ibid., 149.
97 . June 6, 1831, ibid., 166.
98 . J. Cottrau, Lettres d’un Mélomane , Naples, 1885, cited in Hanslick: 1991, 278.
99 . April 27, 1831, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1865, 147.
100 . May 28, 1831, ibid., 156.
101 . Ibid.
102. Unpublished letter of June 11, 1831, LC (Music 1055).
103 . Pocket diary, MDM g. 3, fol. 17.
104 . May 28, 1831 P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1865, 159, and June 11, 1831, to Attwood, unpublished letter in LC (Music 1055).
105 . Fanny’s diary, entry of March 4, 1831 (Berlin, MA Depos. 500, 22).
106 . December 28, 1831, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1865, 319.
107 . June 25, 1831, ibid., 193; Butler, The Way of All Flesh , ch. 4.
108 . MDM g. 3 (July 15, 1831).
109 . July 14, 1831, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1865, 207–8.
110 . E. Devrient, Recollections , 120.
111 . July 7, 1831 (NYPL No. 133).
112 . July 24, 1831, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1865, 216.
113 . August 18 [recte 4], 1831, in MLL , 166.
114 . August 10, 1831, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1865, 243; Felix’s autograph of the two Lieder is in PML.
115 . August 24, 1831, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1865, 269.
116 . September 5, 1831, ibid., 291.
117 . October 6, 1831, ibid., 295.
118 . Ibid., 296; Roberta Werner, “The Songs of Josephine Caroline Lang: The Expression of a Life,” Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Minnesota, 1992, I, 110.
119 . BN, Conservatoire Ms. 195.
120 . Collection of Lillian Kallir, New York; the Ms. is examined in Marian Wilson: 1993, 153ff.
121 . Letter of October 6, 1831, from a passage not published in P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1865; the original is in MDM d. 13, fol. 91.
122 . Hector Berlioz, Evenings with the Orchestra , ed. Jacques Barzun, Chicago, 1973, 218–19.
123 . November 13, 1831, published in E. Werner: 1963, 528.
124 . Unpublished passage in Felix’s letter of November 27, 1831 (NYPL No. 140).
125 . Letter of November 29, 1831, in K. L. Immermann, Briefe , ed. Peter Hasubek, Munich, 1978, I, 1004–5. See also Immermann, Zwischen Poesie und Wirklichkeit , 61.
126 . January 11, 1832, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1865, 323.
127 . January 28, 1832, NYPL No. 144.
128 . December 20, 1831, to Klingemann, Klingemann, 89.
129 . Hiller, Letters , 24–25.
130 . December 11, 1831, NYPL No. 142.
131 . January 11 and 14, 1832, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1865, 326, 328.
132 . See Locke.
133 . January 22, 1832, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 334, corrected in Locke, 114.
134 . Hiller, Letters , 28.
135 . Ibid., 26–27.
136 . April 11, 1832, Felix to Rebecka, NYPL No. 152.
137 . See J.-J. Eigeldinger, “Les premiers concerts de Chopin à Paris (1832–1838),” in P. Bloom, ed., Music in Paris in the Eighteen-Thirties , Stuyvesant, N.Y., 1987, 257f.
138 . April 16, 1832. Facs. in Leopold Binental, Chopin: Dokumente und Erinnerungen aus seiner Heimatstadt , Leipzig, 1932, Abb. 39.
139 . Entries in Clara’s diaries by her father, February 16 and 26, and March 14 and 23, 1832 (Zwickau, Robert-Schumann Haus 4871, 1-4-A3). An edition by Gerd Nauhaus and Nancy Reich is in preparation.
140 . “Nouvelles de Paris,” Revue musicale 6/8 (1832), 59 (March 24, 1832).
141 . See Todd: 1993, 17–18.
142 . March 31, 1832, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1865, 349.
143 . Felix to Fanny, January 21, 1832, ibid., 332.
144 . Fanny to Felix, February 17, 1835, in Citron: 1987, 173.
145 . Ed. C. Misch, Kassel, 1992.
146 . See Elvers: 1972, 171.
147 . See Hinrichsen, 114–29; and Huber: 1997, 227–45.
148 . Fanny’s diary entry for January 1, 1832 (Berlin, MA , Depos. 500, 22).
149 . December 24, 1831–January 21, 1832. Ed. E. M. Blankenburg, Kassel, 1995.
150 . For discussion, see Eberle.
151 . Ed. E. M. Blankenburg, Kassel, 1994.
152 . Fanny to Felix, ca. June 11, 1834, in Citron: 1987, 144. According to Renate Hellwig-Unruh, Fanny completed the overture in April or May 1832. Hellwig-Unruh: 2000, 244.
153 . Felix to Berlin, February 28, 1832 (NYPL No. 146); Harmonicon 10 (1832), 235.
154 . See C. J. Kudlick, Cholera in Post-Revolutionary Paris: A Cultural History , Berkeley, 1996.
155 . Felix to Heinrich Bae
rmann, April 16, 1832; Nohl: 1873, 310–11.
156 . Felix to Berlin, May 11, 1832, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1865, 351.
157 . I. Moscheles, 179, 181; Lampadius, 194.
158 . In 1830 fire had destroyed the Argyll Rooms.
159 . See MT 38 (1897), 732; and Todd: 1991, 195–96.
160 . Minutes of the Directors of the Philharmonic for June 17, 1832; London, BL Loan 48.2/2; Berlin MA BA 275 (see Klein: 1997, 164).
161 . Jourdan, 177ff.
162 . Rockstro, 48. See also Little: 2002, 294–96.
163 . See Jourdan, 184. When the Reform Bill was finally passed in June, it abolished fifty-six “rotten boroughs” and effectively doubled the size of the electorate.
164 . I. Moscheles, 175; Athenaeum , May 19, 1832, 326.
165 . Harmonicon 10 (1832), 142.
166 . See most recently, Ward Jones: 1997c, 67–68. In May 2002, the final autograph of the overture, dated June 20, 1832, and known as the “Odling” manuscript, was acquired by the Bodleian Library, Oxford (MDM d. 71), after being held privately for more than fifty years.
167 . Edward Lockspeiser, Music and Painting , London, 1973, 10–12.
168 . Edward Dannreuther, “Wagner,” Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians , London, 1893, IV, 369.
169 . See Todd: 1984 and 1993, 79–82.
170 . Grey: 2000, 70.
171 . No. 4, September 14, 1829 (PML); No. 2, December 11, 1830 (Arturo Toscanini Collection, New York Public Library); No. 6, October 16, 1830 (MN 18); and No. 1 (ca. August–September 1831, see Hiller, Letters , 17).
172 . Schumann: 1946, 210.
173 . The autograph from which Moscheles worked survives in the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. For details of the first English edition, see Ward Jones: 1992, 243–44.
174 . SBB MA BA 157. Felix’s addition is dated February 20, 1833. For a facs., see Kleßmann, 203.
175 . June 21, 1832, Felix to Dr. Haley Holm, MDM c. 42, fol. 10–11.
176 . MDM g. 4, fol. 3 (entry for May 22, 1832).
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1 . Felix to Rebecka, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1868, 10.
2 . May 18, 1832, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1865, 352.
3 . See the thorough account in Little: 1992, 72.
4 . E. Devrient, Recollections , 150.
5 . September 4, 1832, Felix to E. Devrient. LC, in Turner, 218.
6 . February 4, 1833, Klingemann, 110.
7 . E. Devrient, Recollections , 155–56.
8 . July 4, 1832, Klingemann, 95.
9 . August 4, 1832, and January 16, 1833, GM , 99, 102.
10 . March 17, 1832, F. Moscheles: 1888, 61; unpublished letter to Attwood of February 10, 1833, LC (Music 1055).
11 . Lord, have mercy upon us , March 24, 1833 (Berlin, MN 28, 1–3), later published in the Album für Gesang for 1842.
12 . September 26, 1832, F. Moscheles: 1888, 44.
13 . July 27, 1832, Felix to Immermann, HHI; E. Devrient, Recollections , 143. See also A. B. Marx: 1865, I, 168–70.
14 . The Pagenlied , published as a supplement to NZfM in 1838, and Weihnachtslied , Christmas presents for Rebecka (MDM g. 11); and the Fugue in B minor, later released as Op. 35 No. 3. The Weihnachtslied is published in Hans Gerber, Albert Baur , Freiburg im Breisgau, 1971, 161–62.
15 . LC (December 30, 1832; Music 1055). Die Schlacht bei Prag. Ein grosses Duett für Dampfnudel oder Rahmstrudel, Clarinett u. Bassethorn .
16 . BN Conservatoire Ms. 209; January 6, 1833.
17 . Marx: 1991, 213.
18 . Berlin, MA Ms. 76, examined in Kellenberger and Sposato: 2000, which includes transcriptions of drafts for the libretto preserved in the Bodleian Library.
19 . February 4, 1833, Felix to Klingemann; Klingemann, 109–10.
20 . Marx: 1865, II, 173.
21 . Sposato: 2000, 203, 205.
22 . Ibid., ch. 4 for a thorough review of the chronology; in the appendix, Sposato provides complete transcriptions of the libretto drafts for Paulus .
23 . Marx: 1991, 213.
24 . MDM d. 53, No. 88.
25 . I. Moscheles, 182.
26 . For a facsimile of Felix’s dedicatory note, see F. Moscheles: 1888, 49.
27 . October 24, 1832, January 26 and February 7, 1833; see AmZ 34 (1832), 802–3, 35 (1833), 126; and Klingemann, 110.
28 . August 7, 1832, to Immermann, HHI; copy in Weimar, Stiftung Weimarer Klassik.
29 . January 17, 1833, to Charlotte Moscheles; F. Moscheles: 1888, 52.
30 . See the unpublished letter ca. November 15, 1832 (J. & J. Lubrano, auction catalogue, Autumn 1994, No. 60, 23–24).
31 . February 4, 1833, Klingemann, 110.
32 . February 13, 1833, Klingemann, 111.
33 . Iris im Gebiete der Tonkunst 3/47 (November 23, 1832). See further Judith Silber: 1987, 49–50.
34 . Vossische Zeitung (January 12, 1833), 6–7; AmZ 35 (1833), 125.
35 . On the early version see especially Hellmundt: 1997.
36 . Goethe to Felix, September 9, 1831, as cited in ibid., 105.
37 . E. Werner: 1963, 203; Kramer, 78; and Metzger, 94–95. See also Julie D. Prandi, “Kindred Spirits: Mendelssohn and Goethe, Die erste Walpurgisnacht ,” in Cooper and Prandi, 135–46.
38 . Foster, 111.
39 . Berlin, MN Band 27; for a facsimile, see Cooper and Klein: 1997.
40 . Felix to Immermann, March 18, 1833, copy in Weimar, Stiftung Weimarer Klassik; the autograph score is in Berlin, MN 56.
41 . Benno von Wiese, Karl Immermann: Sein Werk und sein Leben , Bad Homburg, 1969, 274.
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