37 . Grove: 1890, 294.
38 . Felix to Paul, April 10, 1845, MLL , 270; and Felix to Rebecka, April 11, 1845, MF II, 320.
39 . SBB N. Mus. Ms. 537; a facs. of the first page is in Klein: 1997, 225.
40 . Felix to Fanny, April 20, 1845, MF II, 321.
41 . I. Moscheles, 329.
42 . Krummacher: 1984, 76–80.
43 . See the critical ed. of Wm. A. Little, Stuttgart, 1998.
44 . Felix to Paul, July 2, 1845, NYPL; Felix to Klingemann, September 29, 1845, Klingemann, 311.
45 . Von Falkenstein to Felix, June 30, 1845, GB XXI, 240. The negotiations are examined in detail in Häfner, 251ff.; and Weiss, 77–88.
46 . E. Devrient to Felix, September 12, 1845, in E. Devrient, Recollections , 265–66.
47 . See Musch, 206–11.
48 . For a facs. of one, dated July 12, 1845, see E. Wolff: 1909, 169.
49 . Felix to Paul, September 5, 1845, NYPL No. 688. The restored residence now houses a museum at Goldschmidtstraße 12, opened by the Internationale Mendelssohn-Stiftung in 1997.
50 . Felix to Klingemann, September 29, 1845, Klingemann, 311; the date is sometimes given as September 15, which, according to Felix’s diary (MDM g. 7), would have been the very day he returned from Berlin to Leipzig.
51 . Rockstro, 103.
52 . AmZ 47 (1845), 732.
53 . MDM c. 49, fols. 33–56, and c. 33, fols. 83–84 (for a facs. of the latter, see Jacobi: 1915, 26).
54 . Edwards: 1896, 35.
55 . Grove: 1890, II, 294. In a list of Felix’s Berlin engagements (GB XXII, 308), several entries for Magnus appear on November 5, 6, 11, 15, 16, 19, 20, 25, and December 2; presumably the sittings for the portrait occurred on these dates. According to Grove, Jenny Lind commissioned the portrait. A copy of the original version, a half-length with crossed arms, is in SBB (MA BA 191). Other copies showing the composer’s hands survive, including one, formerly belonging to his daughter Marie that is now in the Bodleian Library. See also Gläser, 135.
56 . Kraków, BJ 40, 73 (October 30, 1845). A second version, from January 1846, has been reproduced in facs. See Köhler: 1959.
57 . Felix to his parents, August 23, 1831, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1865, 261ff.
58 . AmZ 48 (1846), 178–79.
59 . Minna to Giacomo Meyerbeer, November 11, 1845, in Meyerbeer, III, 638–39.
60 . Though he did inscribe a copy of the score requested by Prince Albert. See Felix to Bartholomew, March 21, 1846, in Polko: 1987, 300–301.
61 . V: 8, as translated by C. H. Sisson, Oxford, 1987, 209.
62 . Wilhelm Dilthey, Das Erlebnis und die Dichtung: Lessing, Goethe, Novalis, Hölderlin , Berlin, 1957, 103.
63 . MF I, 94.
64 . See the “Vorwort” to the ed. by H. Gottwaldt, in Das Erbe deutscher Musik , Mainz, 1977, vol. 71, 7–8.
65 . British Library, King’s Music Library R. M. 21. g. 5.
66 . Lampadius, 392.
67 . Kraków, MN 39, 23–25 (“Qu’on adore ce Dieu”).
68 . Berlinische Zeitung , December 2, 1845, quoted in Holland and Rockstro, 171.
69 . MDM GB XXII, 308.
70 . According to Clive Brown, papers deposited in the London Mendelssohn Society in 1896 by Jenny’s husband, Otto Goldschmidt, but not yet made public, are rumored to corroborate the idea of an affair. Brown: 2003, 33.
71 . See most recently, Wullschlager, 219–41.
72 . H. C. Andersen, Das Märchen meines Lebens , cited in Holland and Rockstro, 163.
73 . Felix to Geibel, December 9, 1845, in Schnoor, 114.
74 . Polko: 1987, 110.
75 . AmZ 47 (1845), 895.
76 . Holland and Rockstro, 180.
77 . Rockstro, 116.
78 . Holland and Rockstro, 183n.
79 . Felix to Jenny, December 10, 1845, MDM c. 25, fols. 16–17.
80 . MDM GB XXVII, No. 94, sent on December 16; see Felix to Schubring, December 16, 1845, in Schubring: 1892, 204–6, and Sposato: 2000, II, 303–16.
81 . AmZ 47 (1845), 933. The program also included Helen Dolby singing Elvira’s entrance cavatina from Act I of Verdi’s Ernani , the first performance of Verdi in the Gewandhaus.
82 . Felix to Jenny, December 23, 1845, published with a facs. in Maude, 53–58.
83 . Ibid., 58.
84 . Felix to Bernus, October 10, 1845, P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1868, 355.
85 . Rockstro, 118.
86 . Grove: 1890, II, 299.
87 . NZfM 24 (1846), 32.
88 . Felix to Clara Schumann, January 4, 1846, in N. Reich: 1994, 222.
89 . E. Devrient, Recollections , 273.
90 . AmZ 48 (1846), 122.
91 . Grove: 1890, II, 299.
92 . Letters of October 22 and late November 1845 from Robert to Felix, in Jansen: 1904, 252 and 254, cited in Daverio: 1997, 333.
93 . AmZ 48 (1846), 123; see also Franz Brendel’s review in NZfM 24 (1846), 72.
94 . “Das musikalische Leipzig in seinem Verhalten zu Richard Wagner,” in Hans von Bülow, Ausgewählte Schriften 1850–1892 , Leipzig, 1896, 21.
95 . K. Olsen and H. Topsøe-Jensen, III, 61–63.
96 . Wullschlager, 281.
97 . F. Hensel, 263. MDM g. 7; letter of February 14, 1846, from Felix to Paul, NYPL No. 699; and Hensel: 1911, 50–51.
98 . Von Minckwitz to Felix, March 19, 1846, MDM GB XXIII, No. 163.
99 . Schumann: 1980, 104; Schumann, Tagebücher , II, 399.
100 . Newman, I, 438.
101 . See Felix’s letter to Hofrat Keil, February 22, 1846, in LA , 84–87.
102 . Rockstro, 107.
103 . Wasielewski: 1894, 333.
104 . Rockstro, 109.
105 . Felix to Jenny Lind, March 18, 1846, Holland and Rockstro, 192–95.
106 . AmZ 48 (1846), 277.
107 . Felix to Jenny, May 7, 1846, Holland and Rockstro, 210.
108 . Felix to E. Devrient, May 9, 1846, in E. Devrient, Recollections , 281.
109 . Several of the letters appear in W. Reich: 1959, 366–70.
110 . Holland and Rockstro, 212.
111 . Felix to Devrient, May 9, 1846, E. Devrient, Recollections , 277–82.
112 . Felix to H.-G.-M.J.-P. Magis, February 23, 1846, in van der Linden, 51. The autograph score (Kraków, BJ MN 41, 1–72) is dated at the end February 6, 1846.
113 . Kraków, BJ MN 41, 73–92.
114 . Stanford University Memorial Music Library, Ms. No. 721, dated April 4, 1846.
115 . E. Devrient, Recollections , 274.
116 . Felix to Edward Buxton, March 21, 1846, LC (Music 1055); Robert Schumann, Tagebücher , II, 399.
117 . Felix to Jenny Lind, May 15, 1846, Holland and Rockstro, 212.
118 . Felix to Moscheles, May 23, 1846, F. Moscheles: 1888, 273–74.
119 . Bartholomew to Felix, June 23, 1846, in Edwards: 1896, 51.
120 . Ibid., 50.
121 . Felix to Bartholomew, July 3, 1846, ibid., 53.
122 . Naumann, 37–38.
123 . Felix to Fanny, June 27, 1846, MF II, 331.
124 . Esser, 63.
125 . Holland and Rockstro, 221.
126 . Felix to the Comité of the Aachen Musical Festival, April 3, 1846, in Großmann-Vendrey: 1969, 116.
127 . The controversy resurfaced in 1977, when the German scholar Peter Gülke published a new edition of Beethoven’s symphony that reinstated the repeats of the scherzo and trio. For a full review of the issue, see the Critical Commentary to Jonathan Del Mar’s edition of the Fifth Symphony (Kassel, 1999), 55ff.
128 . AmZ 48 (1846), 461, July 1, 1846 (letter of August 21, 1810).
129 . Schindler, 483–86.
130 . Onslow’s review was carried as well by the AmZ (48 [1846], 405ff.).
131 . Felix to Hauser, June 8, 1846, Holland and Rockstro, 223.
132 . Felix to Fanny, June 27, 1846, MF II, 331.
133 . Chorley: 1854, II, 323–24.
134 . Ibid., II, 326.
135 . F. R. Hullah, Life of John Hullah, L.L.D ., London, 1886, 44.
136 . Chorley: 1854, II, 327.
137 . An accretion to the liturgy of the Mass, sung immediately after the Alleluia.
138 . Schumann: 1980, 102.
139 . Van der Linden: 1954, 53–64. The fugue is included in my edition of the work (Stuttgart, 1996).
140 . Felix to Magis, March 13, 1846, in Van der Linden: 1954, 52.
141 . Chorley, Modern German Music , II, 328.
142 . Ibid., II, 331; see also the brief account in Lampadius, 302.
143 . BadV , 134 (letter of November 20, 1843).
144 . Chorley, Modern German Music , II, 347–48. Work on the cathedral, having ceased in the sixteenth century, had finally begun again in 1842, and continued until its completion in 1880.
145 . Schöne, II, 34.
146 . AmZ 48 (1846), 457.
147 . Moser, 70.
148 . See Brown: 1984, 294–95.
149 . Spohr: 1861, II, 306–7.
150 . AmZ 48 (1846), 503.
151 . Schubring to Felix, June 15, 1846, Edwards: 1896, 26.
152 . Felix to Schubring, May 23, 1846, and Schubring to Felix, June 15, 1846, Edwards: 1896, 24–26.
153 . Felix to Jenny Lind, July 23, 1846, Holland and Rockstro, 227.
154 . Kraków, BJ MN Band 51, dated at the end.
155 . Felix to Bartholomew, July 3, 1846, Edwards: 1896, 62.
156 . Bartholomew to Felix, July 20, 1846, ibid., 68.
157 . It was published in a piano reduction in Bennett: 1883, 182–83.
158 . Felix to Bartholomew, August 9, 1846, Edwards: 1896, 72–73.
159 . Keudell authored a volume of memoirs of the German chancellor (Fürst und Fürstin Bismarck , Berlin, 1901).
160 . MF II, 325 (translation slightly modified).
161 . Fanny to Felix, July 9, 1846, Citron: 1987, 349–51.
162 . Felix to Fanny, August 12, 1846, MF II, 326 (trans. slightly revised).
163 . Diary entry of August 14, 1846, ibid. F. Hensel, 266.
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1 . The Musical World (August 1846).
2 . Edwards: 1896, 76.
3 . Henry Phillips, II, 237ff. According to Phillips, Felix gave him the manuscript on September 22, which must be an error for August 22; by September 22, Felix had returned to Leipzig. See also Todd: 1984, 153–60. Felix’s autograph is lost; the work has survived in a few manuscript copies.
4 . Foster, 199.
5 . The Musical World (Saturday, August 22, 1846).
6 . The Times (Monday, August 24, 1846), 9.
7 . Quoted in Edwards: 1896, 81.
8 . The Times (Wednesday, August 26, 1846), 8.
9 . Ibid. (Thursday, August 27, 1846), 6.
10 . Felix to Moscheles, June 26, 1846, in F. Moscheles: 1888, 274–75.
11 . Edwards: 1896, 84; The Times (August 27, 1846), 6.
12 . Several are in Edwards: 1896, 85–92.
13 . The Times (August 27, 1846), 6.
14 . Felix to Paul, August 26 [recte 27], 1846, in P. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Letters , 1868, 363.
15 . For the original duet version, see the edition by Jack Werner, Oxford, 1958, and idem: 1965, 81.
16 . The Times (August 28, 1846), 6.
17 . Ibid. (August 29, 1846), 5.
18 . Ibid. For the recitative, see Edwards: 1896, 94–95.
19 . I. Moscheles, 326.
20 . The Musical World (September 1846), quoted in J. Werner: 1965, 18.
21 . Appia to Felix, May 26, 1846, MDM GB XXIII, 295.
22 . Kraków, BJ MN 41, 112–13, where it appears beneath the Spruch for Ascension Day, Op. 79 No. 3, dated October 9, 1846.
23 . Ed. with critical commentary by Barbara Mohn in Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Neun Psalmen und Cantique , Stuttgart, 1997.
24 . Redern to Felix, May 5, 1846, MDM GB XXIII, 252.
25 . Felix to Bote & Bock, October 17, 1846, BadV , 342.
26 . See the ed. by Günter Graulich, Stuttgart, 1982.
27 . Felix to von Redern, November 6, 1846, in Scheumann: 1908/09, 264.
28 . By Bote & Bock in the series Musica sacra , Berlin, 1853–1855, V and VII.
29 . See the ed. with thorough commentary by Judith Silber Ballan (Stuttgart, 1998).
30 . I. Moscheles, 327.
31 . Dörffel, 114–15.
32 . Leiziger Tageblatt und Anzeiger 39 (1846), 3541, 3552 (November 7, 1846) and 3560 (November 8). I am grateful to Ralf Wehner for identifying the passage. See also E. Werner: 1963, 479–80.
33 . Litzmann, II, 80–81n; Felix to Klingemann, December 6, 1846, Klingemann, 316.
34 . Schumann: 1980, 104.
35 . Felix to Klingemann, December 6, 1846, ibid., 316. Felix’s score is in MDM c. 66–67.
36 . E. Devrient, Recollections , 287.
37 . Ibid.
38 . Copied by Felix in his letter to Paul of November 27, 1846 (NYPL No. 712).
39 . Felix to Klingemann, December 6, 1846, Klingemann, 316.
40 . F. Hensel, 270 (entry of December 30, 1846).
41 . By Christmas 1846 Fanny had already received advance copies (F. Hensel, 272).
42 . On the publication dates, see H.-G. Klein: 1997, 220.
43 . Fanny to Felix, February 1, 1847, Citron: 1987, 363.
44 . I. Moscheles, 332.
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