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MENDELSSOHN’S LETTERS,
FROM 1833 TO 1847.
AND IN THAT STILL SMALL VOICE ONWARDS CAME THE LORD.”
ELIJAH
LETTERS
OF
FELIX MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY,
FROM 1833 TO 1847.
EDITED BY
PAUL MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY,
OF BERLIN;
AND
DR. CARL MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY,
OF HEIDELBERG:
WITH
A CATALOGUE OF ALL HIS MUSICAL COMPOSITIONS
COMPILED BY
DR. JULIUS RIETZ.
Translated
BY
L A D Y W A L L A C E.
LONDON:
LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, ROBERTS, & GREEN.
1863.
PRINTED BY
JOHN EDWARD TAYLOR, LITTLE QUEEN STREET,
LINCOLN’S INN FIELDS.
PREFACE.
The Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland,have amply fulfilled the purpose of their publication, by making himpersonally known to the world, and, above all, to his countrymen.
Those Letters, however, comprise only a portion of the period ofMendelssohn’s youth; and it has now become possible, by the aid of hisown verbal delineations, to exhibit in a complete form that picture ofhis life and character which was commenced in the former volume.
This has been distinctly kept in view in the selection of the followingletters. They commence directly after the termination of the formervolume, and extend to Mendelssohn’s death. They accompany him throughthe most varied relations of his life and vocation, and thus lay claim,at least partially, to another kind of interest from that of the periodof gay, though not insignificant enjoyment, depicted by him in theletters written during his travels. For example, the negotiations on thesubject of his appoi