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Sender: Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix
Recipient: Novello, A.
Letters: 1
Date(s): 23 Nov 1837
Location: BC Novello Cowden Clarke Collection
Note: Printed copy.
Sender: Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix
Recipient: Moscheles, Ignaz
Letters: 65
Date(s): 28 Nov 1826 - 7 Oct 1847
Location: BC MS Mendelssohn/Letters
Note: The greater number of these letters are very lengthy, in all
they cover upwards of 150 pages, 4to. and 8vo. They were
written during a period of 21 years. The first letter was
penned when Mendelssohn was but 17 years of age, and the last
one less than a month before his death. Mendelssohn was only 38
when he died so these letters illustrate more than half his life
and nearly the whole of his period as a composer.
There are many important and interesting references in these
letters to Mendelssohn's composition's, to his contemporaries,
to the publication of his Works in London, to the conditions of
their publications and to their prices. He refers to Bach,
Handel, Chopin, Mozart, Cherubini, Liszt and many other famour
musicians, as well as Paganini, Jenny Lind and others. He also
describes his famous "Songs without Words", "Overture to A
Midsummer Nights Dream", "Rondo Brilliant" his Oratoria "Paul"
his edition of Handel's "Messiah" and Works etc.
These letters are preserved in the original 4to. volume as
arranged and mounted by Moscheles with his manuscript index and
note.
Sender: Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix
Recipient: Simrock, N.
Letters: 1
Date(s): 6 Dec 1831
Location: BC MS Mendelssohn/Letters
Note: Loose in an envelope at end of volume.
Sender: Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix
Recipient: [unnamed correspondent]
Letters: 1
Date(s): 23 May 1833
Location: BC MS Mendelssohn/Letters
Note: Loose in an envelope at end of volume.
Sender: Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix
Recipient: Griepenkerl, Dr Wolfgang Robert
Letters: 1
Date(s): 25 Jun 1839
Location: BC MS Mendelssohn/Letters
Note: Loose in an envelope at end of volume.
Sender: Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix
Recipient: I.M. and Mme. M.
Letters: 1
Date(s): 24 Jan 1841
Location: BC MS Mendelssohn/Letters
Note: Preserved in the original 4to. volume as arranged and mounted by
Moscheles with his manuscript index and notes.
Sender: Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix
Recipient: Chorley, H.F.
Letters: 1
Date(s): 24 Jan 1841
Location: BC MS Mendelssohn/Letters
Note: Sent c/o Mr C. Klingermann, 4 Hobart Place, Eaton Square,
Pimlico, London. Written in English. Loose in an envelope at end of volume.
Sender: Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix
Recipient: Lubeck, Kapelmeister I.H.
Letters: 1
Date(s): 19 Sep 1841
Location: BC MS Mendelssohn/Letters
Note: Loose in an envelope at end of volume
Sender: Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix
Recipient: Fischof, Prof. J.
Letters: 1
Date(s): 12 Oct 1841
Location: BC MS Mendelssohn/Letters
Note: Loose in an envelope at end of volume.
Sender: Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix
Recipient: [unnamed correspondent - Otto Prechtler?]
Letters: 1
Date(s): 20 Feb 1843
Location: BC MS Mendelssohn/Letters
Note: Loose in an envelope at end of volume.
Sender: Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix
Recipient: [Stern & Co., Musikhandlung in Berlin]
Letters: 1
Date(s): 20 Mar 1846
Location: BC MS Mendelssohn/Letters
Note: Preserved in the orignal 4to. volume as arranged and mounted
by Moscheles with his manuscripts index and notes.
Sender: Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix
Recipient: [unknown]
Letters: 1
Date(s): 26 Sep 1843
Location: BC Egerton Leigh: Literature, Science, Art & Music Autographs,
p.92