Mendelssohn: A Life in Music

by Todd, R. Larry

  197 . Felix to Attwood, January 11, 1835, LC (Music 1055); Todd: 1992c, “Six Preludes and Fugues Op. 35,” 173.

  198 . June 18, 1834, Fanny to Felix, Citron: 1987, 147.

  199 . Berlin, MN 28, 287–90, 295–97, 299.

  200 . Berlin, MN 29, 120 (July 30, 1834); MA Ms. 6 (January 11, 1835). For an ed. see Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Complete Organ Works , I, 8–11, 20–25.

  201 . Berlin, MN 28, 153 (December 12, 1833) and 151–52 (January 30, 1834); and Fanny to Felix, December 27, 1834, which cites Op. 38 No. 2 (Citron: 1987, 167).

  202 . HHI, and MDM c. 1, fols. 95–102.

  203 . BadV , 191.

  204 . Felix to Henriette Voigt, March 15, 1835, Acht Briefe und ein Facsimile von Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , Leipzig, 1871, 17; Dwight’s Journal of Music 31 (1871), 58.

  205 . See further Rudolf Elvers’s ed. of the Lieder ohne Worte , Munich, 1981.

  206 . Felix to Rochlitz, January 3, 1835, MLL , 204. Felix mentions the professorship in his letter to Berlin of the same day (NYPL No. 220).

  207 . Felix to Abraham, January 15, 1835, MLL , 206–7.

  208 . January 26, 1835, Felix to Schleinitz, ibid., 208; February 6, 1835, Felix to Raymund Härtel, BadV , 43.

  209 . March 15, 1835, Felix to Henriette Voigt, Dwight’s Journal of Music 31 (1871), 58.

  210 . May 1, 1835, Felix to Oberbürgermeister von Fuchsius, Esser, 41.

  211 . June 13, 1835, Felix to Regierungsrath Heinrich Dörrien, LA , 48–49.

  212 . May 11, 1834, Felix to Moscheles, F. Moscheles: 1888, 104.

  213 . See the detailed study in Niemöller.

  214 . Benedict, 25–26.

  215 . Oxford, Bodleian Library, Deneke 1–32. Six of the volumes have annotations in Felix’s hand.

  216 . Fanny to Felix, April 8, 1835, Citron: 1987, 495; Rebecka to Klingemann, July 6, 1835, Klingemann, 180.

  217 . Meyerbeer: 1970, II, 468.

  218 . Brockhaus, I, 291.

  219 . Facs. in Reinhold Sietz, “Das Stammbuch von Julius Rietz,” Beiträge zur rheinischen Musikgeschichte 52 (1962), 222–23.

  Chapter 10

  1 . Felix to Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow and Klingemann, August 9 and 14–16, 1835 (Polko: 1987, 161–63; Klingemann, 188–89).

  2 . Lea to Rebecka, 1835, MF I, 317.

  3 . Schumann: 1980, 107.

  4 . See Wolfgang Boetticher, “Neue Materialien zur Begegnung Robert Schumanns mit Henriette Voigt,” Florilegium musicologicum: Hellmut Federhofer zum 75. Geburtstag , ed. C.-H. Mahling, Tutzing, 1988, 49.

  5 . Entry for September 13, 1835, in Clara Wieck’s diary (Zwickau, Robert-Schumann Haus). See also Clara to Emilie List, September 14, 1835, in Wendler, 58–59.

  6 . Dörffel, 253.

  7 . Ibid., 22.

  8 . On February 21, 1833, February 13, 1834, and April 20, 1834.

  9 . Dörffel, 78.

  10 . See Felix’s letter of June 13, 1835, to Heinrich Dörrien, LA , 49.

  11 . Schumann: 1946, 219 (NZfM 3 [1835], 127).

  12 . F. Hensel, 71.

  13 . Felix to Berlin, October 6, 1835, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1868, 81.

  14 . I. Moscheles, 216.

  15 . NZfM 3 (1835), 127; Schumann: 1946, 218.

  16 . Entry for October 4, 1835, from the edition and translation of Clara Wieck’s diaries in preparation by Gerd Nauhaus and Nancy Reich.

  17 . SBB MA BA 136; for a facs., see Klein: 1997, 167.

  18 . NZfM 3 (1835), 131; also, I. Moscheles, 215.

  19 . Ibid., 224.

  20 . MF I, 335; Binder, 269. For another account of the visit, see F. Hensel, 72–73.

  21 . Felix to Rebecka, November 13, 1835 (NYPL No. 244).

  22 . Dörffel, 88.

  23 . BN, Conservatoire Ms. 199, October 29, 1835.

  24 . Abraham to Varnhagen, November 16, 1835; MF I, 326. See also Binder, 288.

  25 . Fanny’s diary, cited in MF I, 337. Fanny’s account of Abraham’s final days is available in F. Hensel, 75–78.

  26 . Felix to Schubring, December 6, 1835, Schubring: 1892, 99.

  27 . Luise Hensel to Clemens Brentano, December 9, 1835; Binder, 288.

  28 . Dörffel, 86.

  29 . Lea to Charlotte Moscheles, October 6, 1836, in I. Moscheles, 233.

  30 . December 30, 1835, Dresden, Sächsische Landesbibliothek.

  31 . Fanny to Felix, December 31, 1835, Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, 209.

  32 . Felix to Pastor Bauer, December 9, 1835, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1868, 87.

  33 . Fanny to Felix, February 4, 1836, Citron: 1987, 199–200.

  34 . Felix to Lea, January 29, 1836, NYPL No. 288.

  35 . Felix to Simrock, January 30, February 27, March 12, and April 2, 1836, BadV , 199, 200, 202; Felix to Woringen, March 12, 1836, in Großmann-Vendrey: 1969, 81.

  36 . Kraków, BJ, MN 53 and 54. As he worked on the full score, Felix had a copy made, which he sent to Woringen in April. Felix to Ferdinand von Woringen, March 30, 1836, Fischer, 26.

  37 . October 12, 1840, Ignaz Moscheles to Charlotte Moscheles; I. Moscheles, 271.

  38 . By Leon Botstein and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Chorus (Arabesque Z6705), from an edition prepared by J. Michael Cooper. The rejected numbers were briefly examined in Grove: 1909, and Kurzhals-Reuter, 103ff.

  39 . Abraham to Felix, March 19, 1835, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1868, 68.

  40 . Here and later in this chapter the numbering of movements from St. Paul follows that of the first edition, and of my edition for Carus Verlag (Stuttgart, 1997).

  41 . Felix to Moscheles, December 25, 1834, F. Moscheles: 1888, 121.

  42 . F. Hensel, 82 (entry of July 8, 1839).

  43 . According to Ferdinand von Woringen, Felix sent several movements from Part 2 from Leipzig to Düsseldorf as soon as they were finished, and composed the tenor cavatina “Sei getreu bis in den Tod” (No. 40) only days before the première in May 1836. Woringen: 1847, trans. in Brown: 2003, 135.

  44 . On a “morning” concert of Joseph Merk, February 21, and benefit concert for Grabau, March 24, 1836.

  45 . January 29, 1836, Felix to Fanny, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1868, 94.

  46 . AmZ 38 (1836), col. 105.

  47 . Felix to Lea, February 18, 1836, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1868, 98.

  48 . Fanny to Klingemann, February 12, 1836, MF II, 4.

  49 . February 18, 1836, Felix to Lea, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1868, 98–99.

  50 . January 21, 1836, Felix to H. W. Verkenius, Wolff: 1909, 121.

  51 . January 23 and 29, 1836, Felix to Lea, NYPL Nos. 287 and 288.

  52 . March 22, 1836, Felix to Klingemann, Klingemann, 199.

  53 . AmZ 38 (1836), 433-36; NZfM 4 (1836), 182.

  54 . MDM GB V, 68; in Richard Wagner, Sämtliche Werke , ed. Egon Voss, XVIII/1, xv.

  55 . Cosima Wagner, II, 247.

  56 . E. Newman, I, 96n.

  57 . Schindler to Otto von Woringen, April 13, 1836, in Großmann-Vendrey: 1969, 83.

  58 . MDM f. 4.

  59 . April 30, 1837, Felix to Klingemann, Klingemann, 215.

  60 . Elise Polko: 1868, 60–61.

  61 . For a facs. see Ward Jones, ed., The Mendelssohns on Honeymoon , 126; see also the pencil drawing by Philipp Veit, SBB MA BA 132 (facs. in Klein: 1997, 181).

  62 . AmZ 38 (1836), 410.

  63 . See Cecilia Hopkins Porter, “The New Public and the Reordering of the Musical Establishment: The Lower Rhine Music Festivals, 1818–67” 19 CM 3 (1980), 217f.

  64 . Davison, 25.

  65 . April 21, 1836, Felix to Lea, NYPL No. 267.

  66 . April 25, 1836, Felix to Ferdinand von Woringen, in Fischer, 31–32.

  67 . Edwards: 1891, 137.

  68 . New York Public Library, Drexel 4779.

  69 . Edwards: 1891, 137.

  70 . Fischer, 33.

  71 . Charles Klingemann, “Account of the Musical Festival at
Düsseldorf,” The Musical World 2 (1836), 1–6 (June 17, 1836).

  72 . Fanny to Wilhelm Hensel, May 1836, MF II, 8.

  73 . Schindler, 437.

  74 . Bischoff to Schindler, June 18, 1836, in Fischer, 38–39.

  75 . Ferdinand Hiller, Letters , 52.

  76 . May 28, 1836, Felix to Thomas Attwood, in J. R. Sterndale Bennett, 41–42.

  77 . August 1, 1837, Comité für das Niederrh. Musikfest to Felix, Fischer, 37; see also August 24, 1837, Cécile to Lea, in Ward Jones, The Mendelssohns on Honeymoon , 186.

  78 . Felix to Lea, June 1, 1836, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1868, 100.

  79 . See further Stanley Weintraub, Charlotte and Lionel: A Rothschild Love Story , N.Y., 2003, 27ff.

  80 . “Jolly, weird and wonderful animal”; Felix to Klingemann, June 20, 1836, Klingemann, 201.

  81 . Hiller, 58; see also Felix to Schleinitz, June 30, 1836, MLL , 225, and MF II, 19.

  82 . E. Devrient, Recollections , 195.

  83 . Hiller, Letters , 60–61.

  84 . July 13 to Lea and Fanny, and July 24, 1836, to Rebecka, NYPL Nos. 269 and 271.

  85 . MDM c. 21, fols. 108–9.

  86 . MF II, 22.

  87 . E. Devrient, Recollections , 197.

  88 . Max Müller, Auld Lang Syne , N.Y., 1898, in MAhW , 256.

  89 . MF II, 22.

  90 . E. Devrient, Recollections , 193.

  91 . See further Guenther Roth, “Weber the Would-Be Englishman: Anglophilia and Family History,” in H. Lehmann and G. Roth, Weber’s Protestant Ethic: Origins, Evidence, Contexts , Cambridge, 1993, 97–121.

  92 . Marianne Weber, Max Weber , trans. H. Zohn, New Brunswick, N.J., 1988, 164.

  93 . MDM b. 5, fols. 18–20.

  94 . Petitpierre, Romance , 47.

  95 . Ibid., 70.

  96 . Rebecka to Felix, July 28, 1836, MDM GB V, 110; Fanny to Felix, July 30, 1836, in Citron: 1987, 208.

  97 . Felix to Hiller, August 7, 1836, Hiller, 64; Felix to Elisabeth Jeanrenaud, August 13, 1836, MDM d. 18.

  98 . MDM d. 11, f. 5. (August 21, 1836; facs. in Koyanagi, 23).

  99 . August 20, 1836, Felix to Elisabeth Jeanrenaud, MDM d. 18, fol. 9.

  100 . Felix to Elizabeth Jeanrenaud, August 13, 1836, MDM d. 18, fols. 6–7.

  101 . August 20, 1836, Felix to Lea, NYPL No. 275.

  102 . Felix to Hiller, August 7 and 18, 1836, Hiller, Letters , 62–71.

  103 . August 1836, Felix to Lübeck, in Hartog, 248–49.

  104 . Felix to Lea, August 20, 1836, NYPL No. 275.

  105 . Felix to Klingemann, August 12, 1836, in Klingemann, 204–5.

  106 . An undated autograph, nearly identical to the published version but bearing the title Des Abends (Of Evening ) survives with a note in a second hand explaining the duet was composed in Horchheim around 1836, which might date it from late August 1836 (Opochinsky Collection of Music Manuscripts, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.).

  107 . F. Hensel, 83 (entry of July 8, 1839).

  108 . September 13, 1836, Felix to Rebecka, NYPL No. 278.

  109 . September 20, 1836, Dorothea Schlegel to Lea, in Klein: 1997, 175.

  110 . Schumann, Tagebücher I, 27.

  111 . Rebecka to Klingemann, October 7, 1836, Klingemann, 205.

  112 . Schumann, Tagebücher I, 29.

  113 . Edwards: 1909, 95.

  114 . On the publication history, see further Ward Jones: 1992, 245–46.

  115 . Eduard to August Franck, November 6, 1836, Feuchte, 69.

  116 . Entry of November 7, 1836, in Clara Wieck’s diary (Zwickau, Robert-Schumann Haus).

  117 . Fanny to Felix, October 28, 1836, in Citron: 1987, 214.

  118 . AmZ 38 (1836), 767.

  119 . J. R. Sterndale Bennett, 50.

  120 . Cited in Großmann-Vendrey: 1969, 142.

  121 . Felix to Lea, November 26, 1836, NYPL No. 301.

  122 . Dörffel, 90.

  123 . See Camilla Cai’s ed., Fanny Hensel, Songs for Pianoforte, 1836–1837 , Madison, Wisc., 1994.

  124 . Fanny to Felix, November 22, 1836, Citron: 1987, 222.

  125 . Felix to Fanny, November 14, 1836, in Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, 234.

  126 . Müller, Auld Lang Syne , in MahW , 256.

  127 . Felix to Klingemann, January 19, 1837, Klingemann, 210; and Fanny to Cécile, December 23, 1836, MF II, 27.

  128 . MDM c. 21; for an inventory, see Crum: 1983, 78–85.

  129 . One of the Goethe [recte Marianne von Willemer] Suleika settings, “Ach, um deine feuchten Schwingen,” and Goethe’s Suleika und Hatem , published as Felix’s Op. 8 No. 12. For a facs. of the former, see Maurer, 156. The songs were later transferred to another album (MDM b. 4).

  130 . December 31, 1836, Felix to Lea, NYPL No. 304.

  131 . AmZ 39 (1837), 317.

  132 . Seaton: 1997, 174.

  133 . January 11, 1835, Felix to Attwood, Washington, LC (Music 1055).

  134 . See Todd: 1992c, 174–79.

  135 . Schumann, Tagebücher I, 31.

  136 . Die Schule des Fugenspiels ; see Todd: 1992c, 180–85.

  137 . G. W. Fink in AmZ 39 (1837), 597–99; Robert Schumann in NZfM 7 (1837), 73–75.

  138 . Hensel, Songs for Pianoforte , 3–10 (see n. 123).

  139 . Ed. by Annegret Huber in Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn, Lyrische Klavierstücke (1836–1839) , Kassel, 1996; see also Hellwig-Unruh: 2000, 278.

  140 . June 24, 1837, Felix to Fanny, in Ward Jones, The Mendelssohns on Honeymoon , 168–69.

  141 . Robert Schumann, in NZfM 7 (1837), 47; trans. in Leon Plantinga, Schumann as Critic , New Haven, 1967, 213.