1103 Bartlitz, Eveline. “Works.” In Stanley Sadie, ed., The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, vol. 12. London: Macmillan, 1980, pp. 152–59. Revised by R. Larry Todd in Stanley Sadie, ed., The New Grove Early Romantic Masters 2. New York: W. W. Norton, 1985, pp. 270–83.
The New Grove Early Romantic Masters 2 revision should be used whenever possible; see Elvers’s essay (item 1108) on Bartlitz’s work-list and this book’s comments on the original New Grove article (item 60). See item 111 for the most recent New Grove article by R. Larry Todd, 2001.
1104 Becher, Alfred Julius. “Vollständiges Verzeichnis der Compositionen von Dr. F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.” Orpheus: Musikalisches Album für das Jahr 1842–43 (1842): iii–viii.
1105 Bernhard, W. “Gesamtausgabe von Mendelssohn’s Werken.” Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 71 (1875): 41–42, 312; 72 (1876): 89; 73 (1877): 81.
A review of the (then) just-published Sämtliche Werke of FMB’s works, edited by Julius Rietz (the edition that still provides the scores for most libraries).
1106 Chrysander, Friedrich. “Mendelssohn’s Werk: Gesamtausgabe von Breitkopf & Härtel.” Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung (Leipzig), Neue Folge, 12 (1877): col. 273–80.
An important early comment on the “Collected Works” edited by Julius Rietz, not least of all because of the insights it provides into contemporary awareness of the emerging “Mendelssohn problem.” Chrysander points out that the publishers had gone to considerable lengths to avoid making this edition one that was “only for libraries,” and also questions whether FMB, despite his prestige, was deserving of such an edition because he represented a “transitional” period in the history of the art.
1107 Cooper, John Michael. “Mendelssohn’s Works: Prolegomenon to a Comprehensive Inventory.” In Douglass Seaton, ed., The Mendelssohn Companion. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001, pp. 701–85.
A selected catalog of Mendelssohn’s works. A unique element of this catalog is that Cooper included several bibliographic sources for each entry, where possible.
1108 Elvers, Rudolf. “Verlorgegangene Selbstverständlichkeiten: Zum Mendelssohn-Artikel in The New Grove.” In Jürgen Schläder and Reinhold Quandt, eds., Festschrift Heinz Becker zum 60. Geburtstag am 26. Juni 1982. Laaber: Laaber, 1982, pp. 417–21.
Eveline Bartlitz’s work-list in The New Grove (item 1103) contains numerous serious errors and problems, ranging from omitted works and sources to misidentified poets. This essay also includes an explanation of the composer’s name and reasons for the proper spelling and non-hyphenation of it. (The list was substantially revised by R. Larry Todd in The New Grove Early Romantic Masters 2. See item 60.)
1109 Mace, Angela R. and R. Larry Todd. “Verzeichnis der Werke Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdys.” In R. Larry Todd, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Sein Leben – Seine Musik. Stuttgart: Carus Verlag/Reclam, 2008, pp. 719–46. ISBN 9783899480986 (Carus), ISBN 9783150106778 (Reclam).
An appendix in the German translation of Todd’s Mendelssohn: A Life in Music (see item 112). Listed in order of opus number, then, where there are no opus numbers, alphabetically. Includes date of composition, first performance, first edition, revised versions, and location(s) of important manuscript(s), where known.
1110 Mendelssohn, Felix. “Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.” Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung 34 (1837): cols. 845–51.
Preceded by a biographical sketch, this is an inventory of FMB’s works published with opus numbers up to that point (including the Opus 39 motets). It indicates whether the materials were available in score, parts, or arrangements.
1111 Riehn, Rainer. “Werkverzeichnis.” In Heinz-Klaus Metzger and Rainer Riehn, eds., Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Musik-Konzepte 14/ 15. Munich: edition text + kritik, 1980, pp. 147–52.
1112 Rietz, Julius. “Verzeichnis der sämmtlichen musicalischen Compositionen von Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.” In Paul and Carl Mendelssohn Bartholdy, eds., Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Briefe aus den Jahren 1833–1847. Leipzig: Hermann Mendelssohn, 1863.
Reprinted, with additions and corrections, in subsequent editions of the Briefe (see discussion, item 1073).
1113 Schmidt, Christian Martin. “Konzeption und Stand der Mendelssohn-Gesamtausgabe.” In Leon Botstein, ed., Felix Mendelssohn—Mitwelt und Nachwelt: Bericht zum 1. Leipziger Mendelssohn-Kolloquium am 8. und 9. Juni 1993. Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1996, pp. 131–34.
1114 “Systematisches Verzeichnis der in Deutschland im Druck erschienenen Compositionen von Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.” Musikalisches Wochenblatt 1 (1870), Supplement.
1115 Thematisches Verzeichnis der im Druck erschienenen Compositionen von Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. “First installment” (Auflage), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1846. 2nd edn. of first installment idem, 1853. 2nd installment of 2nd edn., 1873. 3rd edn, 1882. 99 pp. Reprinted Wiesbaden: Martin Sändig, 1973. Also reprinted 1976 and 1982.
1116 Wehner, Ralf. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Thematisch-systematisches Verzeichnis der musikalischen Werke (MWV). Studien-Ausgabe (Leipziger Mendelssohn-Ausgabe, Serie XIII, Band 1A). Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 2009. 595 pp. ISBN 9783765103179.
Divided into large categories of vocal music (sacred, secular); stage music; instrumental music (orchestra, chamber, piano, organ); and miscellanea (canons, etc.), then into subcategories. Each subcategory is assigned a letter, A–Z, then each work within the subcategory is given a number. Each entry is supplied with a thematic incipit, and information about instrumentation, text, date(s) of composition, manuscript sources, editions, first performances, dedications, etc., as well as remarks regarding special aspects of or context for each work. Includes a list of composite sources and two appendices which list works of doubtful attribution and works of other composers which FMB altered or arranged. Several indexes allow for greater ease of use. The catalog is in German; the introduction and explanation of how to use the catalog are in both German and English.
1117 Bartlitz, Eveline. “Bibliography.” In Stanley Sadie, ed., The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Vol. 12. London: Macmillan, 1980, pp. 156–59. Revised and updated by R. Larry Todd in Stanley Sadie, ed., The New Grove Early Romantic Masters 2. New York: W. W. Norton, 1985, pp. 284–303.
The New Grove bibliography features some unfortunate omissions; every effort should be made to consult the revised and updated list in The New Grove Early Romantic Masters 2 (item 60) or the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2001 (see item 111).
1118 Cooper, J. Michael. “Knowing Mendelssohn: A Challenge from the Primary Sources.” Notes 61 (1) (Sept. 2004): 35–95.
A valuable resource discussing research sources for FMB with a selected bibliography, available online (see item 1225).
1119 Klein, Hans-Günter with Dieter Beaujean. Die Mendelssohns im Bildnis: Porträts aus der ersten bis vierten Generation. Berlin: Mann, 2004. 102 pp. ISBN 9783786118848.
Review: I. M. Groote in Forum Musikbibliothek 26 (1) (2005): 90–92.
1120 Klein, Hans-Günter. Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Ein Almanach. Leipzig: Henschel, 2008. 399 pp. ISBN 3894876190.
A beautiful volume with an entry for each day of the year featuring an excerpt from a letter, a painting, etc., with annotations. Full color. Review: P. Sühring in Forum Musikbibliothek 30 (1) (2009): 55–56.
1121 Konold, Wulf. “Auswahldiskographie.” In Heinz-Klaus Metzger and Rainer Riehn, eds., Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Musik-Konzepte 14/15. Munich: edition text + kritik, 1980, pp. 153–59.
Despite some bibliographic errors, this article is useful as a document of FMB’s discographic reception history to 1979.
1122 Riehn, Rainer. “Auswahlbibliographie.” In Heinz-Klaus Metzger and Rainer Riehn, eds., Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Musik-Konzepte 14/15. Munich: edition text + kritik, 1980, pp. 160–76.
This article contains bibliographic errors (especially in non-German names and titles), but is comprehensive in its coverage.
1123 Wasserman, Janet I. “Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy & Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel: Portrait Iconographies.” Music in Art: International Journal for Music Iconography 33 (1–2) (2008): 317–71.
A comprehensive iconography, listing images by artist name. Includes notes about the artists and the history of the image. Included are 160 images by 155 artists from 1813 to 2008.
1124 Wehner, Ralf. “Bibliographie des Schriftums zu Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy von 1972 bis 1994.” In Christian Martin Schmidt, ed., Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Kongreß-Bericht Berlin 1994. Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1997, pp. 297–351.
A state-of-the-art bibliography by the leader of the FMB Forschungsstelle in Leipzig, well organized and containing only a few bibliographic errors.
1125 Caspar, Hellmut. “Nachlaß der Familie Mendelssohn: Attraktion des Museums für Geschichte der Stadt Leipzig.” Neue Zeit 41 (54) (1985): 3–4.
1126 Elvers, Rudolf. “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdys Nachlaß.” In Carl Dahlhaus, ed., Das Problem Mendelssohn, Studien zur Musikgeschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts, Bd. 41. Regensburg: Gustav Bosse, 1974, pp. 35–46.
A chronicle of the processes by which FMB’s estate was gathered, cataloged, and deposited in the Königliche Bibliothek in Berlin, including previously unpublished official letters. It also discusses the inventory of his library that FMB made before his return to Leipzig from Berlin in November 1844 (see Ward Jones, item 1181), and discusses some of the problematical volumes of the Mendelssohn Nachlaß.
1127 ——“Auf den Spuren der Autographen von Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.” In Günter Brosche, ed., Beiträge zur Musikdokumentation: Festschrift Franz Grasberger zum 60. Geburtstag. Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 1975, pp. 83–91.
One of the most extensive and detailed essays dealing with the problems presented by FMB’s posthumous estate. It begins with a history of the “Green Books” compiled over many years by FMB and donated after his death to the Königliche Bibliothek in Berlin, then traces (as far as possible) the fate of several missing volumes and works, referring to the archives of publishers such as N. Simrock (Bonn), Friedrich Kistner (Leipzig), and Breitkopf & Härtel (Leipzig).
1128 ——“Mendelssohn in der Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz: Zur wachsenden Mendelssohn-Sammlung und zur Geschichte des Nachlasses von Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.” In “ … gefördert von der Stiftung Volkswagenwerk”: Dokumentation. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1982, pp. 81–84.
1129 ——“Schenkungen und Stiftungen der Mendelssohns.” In Rudolf Elvers and Hans-Günter Klein, eds., Die Mendelssohns in Berlin: Eine Familie und ihre Stadt. Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin–Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Ausstellungskataloge 20. Berlin: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin–Preußischer Kulturbesitz, 1983, pp. 94–109.
1130 Lewis, Nigel. Paperchase: Mozart, Beethoven, Bach … The Search for Their Lost Music. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1981. 246 pp. ISBN 0241102359.
Mendelssohn is not the central focus (see pp. 34, 37–38, 67, and 77), and citations are rare, but this journalistic investigation into the fate of German manuscripts during and after World War II is fascinating and of general interest.
1131 Abraham, Gerald. “The Scores of Mendelssohn’s Hebrides.” Monthly Musical Record 78 (1948): 172–76.
This study is an attempt to come to terms with the complex source situation of the Hebrides Overture (see also the studies by Walker, item 1180; and Todd, items 391 and 393).
1132 Albrecht, Otto E. A Census of Autograph Music Manuscripts of European Composers in American Libraries. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1953. 331 pp.
FMB is discussed on pp. 186–90.
1133 Angermüller, Rudolph. “Die Autographensammlung des Alois Taux.” Mitteilungen der Internationalen Stiftung Mozarteum 1–4 (1989): 177–85.
Taux (1817–61) owned an autograph of a two-part canon in B minor dated 5 September 1845.
1134 Appel, Bernard R. “Musikbeiträge im Album der Constanze Erdmunde Jacobi.” In Joseph A. Kruse, ed., Das Stammbuch der Constanze Dawison geb. Jacobi. Berlin: Kulturstiftung der Länder, 1991, 20 pp., pp. 9–14.
1135 Bill, Oswald. “Unbekannte Mendelssohn-Handschriften in der Hessischen Landes- und Hochschulbibliothek Darmstadt.” Die Musikforschung 26 (1973): 345–49.
An inventory and brief description of an impressive collection of FMB autographs. Covered: numerous Lieder, as well as the Organ Fugue in C Minor, Op. 37 No. 1; the arioso “Doch der Herr, er leitet die Irrenden recht” (Op. posth. 112, No. 1); the unfinished concert aria O laßt mich einen Augenblick noch hier; and the chorale cantata O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden.
1136 Brosche, Günter, and Karin Breitner, eds. Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Wien, Musiksammlung: Katalog der Sammlung Anthony van Hoboken in der Musiksammlung der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, musikalische Erst- und Frühdrucke, X: Franz Liszt, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 1994. 189 pp. ISBN 3795207878.
FMB is discussed on pp. 55–179.
1137 Charteris, Richard. An Annotated Catalogue of the Music Manuscripts in the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C. Annotated Reference Tools in Music, No. 6. Hillsdale, NJ: Pendragon Press, 2005. 749 pp. ISBN 9781576471159.
1138 Crum, Margaret. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Bodleian Picture Books Special Series, No. 3. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972. 22 pp. ISBN 900177152.
This book comprises three main parts: Preface (a compact but remarkably substantive biographical sketch); Description of Plates (the exhibit catalog, providing appropriate details and source information for thirty-six items displayed); and the plates (high-quality facsimiles of drawings, programs, letters, and music manuscripts by FMB and his circle, including Goethe and Eduard Bendemann).
1139 ——Catalogue of the Mendelssohn Papers in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, Volume I: Correspondence of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Others. Musikbibliographische Arbeiten, Bd. 7. Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 1980. 374 pp. ISBN 3795202639.
During his lifetime FMB systematically collected and had bound his manuscripts and his incoming correspondence; he also kept detailed diaries. Many of these are now in the possession of the Bodleian Library, Oxford. This volume, together with item 1140, provides an invaluable annotated index to that wealth of still largely untapped documents. See also Peter Ward Jones’s inventory of the Oxford materials (item 1182).
1140 ——Catalogue of the Mendelssohn Papers in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, Volume II: Music and Papers. Musikbibliographische Arbeiten, Bd. 8. Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 1983. 337 pp. ISBN 3795202639. Includes a tree of the Mendelssohn family and descendants. See also Vol. I of Crum’s Catalogue (item 1139) and Peter Ward Jones’s inventory of the Oxford materials (item 1182).
1141 Currie, Norman. “Hector Berlioz, Robert Schumann, Felix Mendelssohn: Three Early Romantic Composers and Their Publishers.” Ph.D. diss., City University of New York, 2004. 471 pp.
1142 Dittrich, Raymond. “Ein Mendelssohn-Autograph in der Bischöflichen Zentralbibliothek Regensburg.” Die Musikforschung 1 (1998): 47–49.
Details a manuscript of FMB’s cadenza for the early concerto in D Minor for violin and piano. Includes a facsimile.
1143 Elvers, Rudolf. “Verzeichnis der von Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy herausgegebenen Werke J. S. Bachs.” In Gestalt und Glaube: Festschrift für Vizepräsident Prof. Dr. Oskar Söhngen, 145–49, 238. Witten: Luther, 1960.
An inventory of FMB’s various editions of J. S. Bach’s works, including the Orchestral Suite in D Major and the “Chaconne.”
1144 ——“Neuerwerbungen für die Musikabteilung der Staatsbibliothek.” Jahrbuch der Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz 4 (1966): 2406.
1145 ——“Neuerwerbungen für das Mendelssohn-Archiv der Staatsbibliothek 1965–69.” Jahrbuch der Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (1969): 308–20.
Elvers identifies and briefly describes items acquired from the Mendelssohn collection of Lili Wach (family portraits, paintings, and watercolors); the album of Fanny Hensel; the estate of Arnold Mendelssohn; the estate of Albrecht von Mendelssohn Bartholdy; and various other letters and documents.
1146 ——Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Dokumente seines Lebens. Ausstellung zum 125. Todestag im Mendelssohn-Archiv der Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz vom 1. bis 30. November 1972. Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin–Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Ausstellungskataloge 3. Berlin: n.p., 1972.
A generously illustrated descriptive catalog of an exhibit mounted by the library in possession of the world’s largest single collection of Mendelssohniana. It includes an overview of the family on p. 18.
1147 ——“Felix Mendelssohns Beethoven-Autographe.” In Carl Dahlhaus, Hans Joachim Marx, Magda Marx-Weber, and Günther Massenkeil, eds., Bericht über den Internationalen Musikwissenschaftlichen Kongreß Bonn 1970. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1973, pp. 380–82.
Mendelssohn’s enthusiasm as a collector of music autographs is well known (see, e.g., Hanslick’s collections of letters, items 1056 and 1057). This study focuses on the issue of which autographs of Beethoven he probably possessed, examining the possibility that a number of them eventually passed into the hands of Heinrich Beer (brother of Giacomo Meyerbeer) before being donated to FMB’s son Paul and his grandson Ernst von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.
1148 ——“Mus. Hs. 40.499.” In Günter Brosche, ed., Beiträge zur musikalischen Quellenkunde: Katalog der Sammlung Hans P. Wertitsch in der Musiksammlung der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek. Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 1989, pp. 249–51.
This article studies the manuscript source for three songs of Op. 57, Nos. l, 2, and 4.
1149 ——“Dokumente zur Biographie Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdys aus meiner Privatsammlung.” Mendelssohn-Studien 16 (2009): 223–30.
Details about and commentary on several letters and musical manuscripts in Rudolf Elvers’ private collection.
1150 Elvers, Rudolf, and Peter Ward Jones. “Das Musikalienverzeichnis von Fanny und Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.” Mendelssohn-Studien 8 (1993): 85–104.
This study concerns an inventory of music held in the Mendelssohn household and prepared between ca. 1823 and ca. 1833. It is extremely useful for identifying at least some of the music that was available to FMB and FH during these years. See also Peter Ward Jones’s essay on “The Library” (item 1181).
1151 Evans, David R. A. “The Powell Collection of Music Manuscripts.” Current Musicology 52 (1993): 64–74.
A history and inventory of the Nanteos music manuscript collection housed in the University College of Wales (Aberystwyth), which contains score of Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage Overture, Op. 27.
1152 Flindell, E. F. “Ursprung und Geschichte der Sammlung Wittgenstein im 19. Jahrhundert.” Die Musikforschung 22 (1969): 300–14.
A history of an important collection of music manuscripts and musicians’ papers, including a number of letters from FMB.
1153 Giroud, Vincent, Christa Sammons, and Karen Spicher. A Catalogue of the Frederick R. Koch Collection at the Beinecke Library, Yale University. New Haven, CT: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 2006. 365 pp. ISBN 0845731637.
1154 Grumbacher, Rudolf, and Albi Rosenthal. “‘Dieses einziges Stückchen Welt …’: Über ein Albumblatt von Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.” In Alain Moirandat, Heide Spilker, and Verene Tarnmann, eds., Totum me libris dedo: Festschrift zum 80. Geburtstag von Adolf Seebass. Basel: Haus der Bücher, 1979, pp. 53–61. Reprinted in Mendelssohn-Studien 5 (1982): 123–29.
On an Albumblatt dated 29 September 1842 that includes a Swiss Geißreihen (a kind of yodeled folk song best known to English speakers by the French term ranz de chèvres) transcribed by FMB during his 1831 grand tour.
1155 Hartmann, Günter. “Ein Albumblatt für Eliza Wesley: Fragen zu Mendelssohns Englandaufenthalt 1837 und eine spekulative Antwort.” Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 150 (1) (1989): 10–14.
An examination of a puzzle canon written on an Albumblatt for Eliza Wesley (1815–95) shortly before the death of Samuel Wesley. Solves the canon with the chorale tune “O Haupt voll Blut and Wunden,” which FMB also used in one of his string-quartet fugues, the eponymous chorale cantata, and the 1840 Leipzig organ concert for the raising of Leipzig’s first monument to J. S. Bach.
1156 King, Alec Hyatt. “The Royal Library in the British Museum.” In Günter Brosche, ed. Beiträge zur Musikdokumentation: Franz Grasberger zum 60. Geburtstag. Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 1975, pp. 193–201.
King discusses the growth of the Royal Library from the 1760s to 1927, and refers to Mendelssohn’s involvement with and contributions to the collections.
1157 Kinsky, Georg. Musikhistorisches Museum von Wilhelm Heyer in Cöln. Katalog 4. Band: Musikerautographe. Cologne: Wilhelm Heyer, 1916.
The author includes a facsimile of an early score of The Hebrides and the String Quartet in D Major, Op. 44 No. 1.
1158 ——Manuscripte, Briefe, Dokumente von Scarlatti bis Stravinsky: Die Musikautographen-Sammlung L. Koch. Stuttgart: Hoffmansche Buchdruckerei Felix Krais, 1953. 360 pp.
An inventory of an important collection that is now dispersed. FMB manuscripts are described on pp. 203–14.
1159 Klein, Hans-Günter. “Verzeichnis der im Autograph überlieferten Werke Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdys im Besitz der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin.” Mendelssohn-Studien 10 (1997): 181–214.
This article provides essential documentation of the world’s largest collection of FMB music autographs. The works known by opus numbers (posthumously or in FMB’s lifetime) are given first, followed by the works with no assigned opus number, grouped by genre and scoring. The article includes dates given in the manuscripts as well as page numbers for manuscripts contained within larger collections of manuscripts.
1160 ——ed. Die Mendelssohns in Italien. Ausstellungskataloge: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin–Preußischer Kulturbesitz No. 46. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2002. 116 pp. ISBN 3895003107.
Exhibition at the Mendelssohn-Archiv, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin– Preußischer Kulturbesitz, 6 December 2002 to 18 January 2003.
1161 ——ed. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Autographe und Abschriften – Katalog. München: Henle, Germany, 2003. 207 pp. ISBN 3873281112.
Catalog of autographs and copies in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin– Preußischer Kulturbesitz.
1162 Klein, Hans-Günter, with Cécile Lowenthal-Hensel and Ernst Thamm. 25 Jahre Mendelssohn-Gesellschaft Berlin e. V.: Ausstellung im Ausstellungsraum des Mendelssohn-Archivs der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin— Preußischer Kulturbesitz, 28. Oktober 1992–9. Januar 1993. Berlin: n.p., 1992.
1163 Klein, Hans-Günter, and Ingeborg Stolzenberg. Das Mendelssohn-Archiv der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin: Bestandsübersicht. Berlin: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin–Preußischer Kulturbesitz, 2003. 163 pp. ISBN 9783880531062.
Inventory of manuscripts in the Mendelssohn Archiv at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin–Preußischer Kulturbesitz.
1164 Krause, Peter. Autographe, Erstausgaben und Frühdrucke der Werke von Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in Leipziger Bibliotheken und Archiven. Bibliographische Veröffentlichungen der Musikbibliothek der Stadt Leipzig, Bd. 6. Leipzig: Deutscher Verlag für Musik, 1972.
1165 Kröll, Christina. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy zum 125. Todestag: Eine Ausstellung des Goethe-Museums Düsseldorf Anton-und-KatharinaKippenberg-Stiftung, 4. November 1972–16. Januar 1973. Düsseldorf: Stiftung Anton und Katharine Kippenberg, 1972.
1166 Leibrotz, Thomas, and Agnes Ziffer. Katalog der Sammlung Anton Dermota: Musikerhandschriften und Musikerbriefe. Publikationen des Instituts für Österreichische Musikdokumentation, ed. Günter Brosche, 12. Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 1988. 190 pp. ISBN 3795205344.
1167 Leven, Louise W. “An Unpublished Mendelssohn Manuscript.” The Musical Times 78 (1948): 361.
Leven discusses the manuscript for a two-voice canon in B minor dated 7 April 1841.
1168 Reich, Nancy B. “The Rudorff Collection.” Notes 31 (1974): 247–61.
Ernst Rudorff (1840–1916) was a pianist, conductor, and head of the piano department of the Berlin Hochschule für Musik from 1859 to 1910. He inherited a sizable collection of musical and literary autographs of works by Mozart, Weber, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, and Bruch. This article discusses the history of the collection and inventories its contents.
1169 Riedel, Friedrich W. Musikalische Schätze aus neun Jahrhunderten: Ausstellung des Musikarchivs, der Bibliothek und des Graphischen Kabinetts des Stiftes Göttweig. [Steinweg]: Stift Göttweig, 1979. 100 pp.
FMB is discussed on pp. 52–55. Riedel includes a facsimile of a letter to Aloys Fuchs dated 11 December 1845.
1170 Rokseth, Yvonne. “Manuscrits de Mendelssohn à la Bibliothèque du Conservatoire.” Revue de musicologie 15 (1934): 103–06.
Despite some errors and ambiguities, the only systematic inventory of FMB autographs held in the Bibliothèque du Conservatoire (now part of the Bibliothèque nationale in Paris).
1171 Schmidt-Hensel, Roland Dieter, with Christine Baur. FELIX: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy zum 200. Geburtstag. Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin–Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Stuttgart: Carus, 2009. 176 pp. ISBN 9783899481167.
The Introduction includes essays by two members of the Mendelssohn family, Cécile Lowenthal-Hensel and Thomas A. Wach. Divided into three main sections: sources, manuscripts relating to Mendelssohn’s travels, and important manuscripts in the archive. Annotated entries are richly illustrated in full color with facsimiles of paintings, letters, and music manuscripts. Review: P. Sühring in Forum Musikbibliothek 30 (1) (2009): 52.
1172 Schneider, Max F. “Eine Mendelssohn-Sammlung in Basel.” Der Amerbach-Bote, Almanach 1947. Basel: Amerbach-Verlag, 1947: 200–28.
Describes twenty-seven musical manuscripts (including the Hebrides overture) and forty-nine letters (including correspondence with Julius Schubring, E. H. W. Verkenius, and Ignaz Seydlitz) from the estate of FMB’s great-grandson Hugo von Mendelssohn Bartholdy. See also item 101.
1173 ——Die Wach’s che Mendelssohn-Sammlung auf dem Ried in Widerswill bei Interlaken. Berlin: n.p., 1965.
Traces documents of the Mendelssohn family through FMB’s youngest daughter, Elisabeth (Lili) Mendelssohn Bartholdy, who married Adolph Wach. Includes a family tree (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin–Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Musikabteilung mit Mendelssohn-Archiv, Sig. Dm 580/56).
1174 Schultz, Klaus. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy—“der schöne Zwischenfall in der deutschen Musik”: Zur Ausstellung anlässlich des XX. Internationalen Musikfestes der Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft im Rahmen der Wiener Festwochen 1981. Vienna: Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft, 1981. 42 pp.
1175 Seebass, Tilman. Musikhandschriften in Basel, aus verschiedenen Sammlungen: Ausstellung im Kunstmuseum Basel vom 31. Mai bis zum 13. Juli 1975. Basel: Basler Berichthaus, 1975. 99 pp.
The introductory essay on “Musik and Musikhandschrift” provides useful observations on the iconographic as well as compositional interests of music manuscripts. FMB manuscripts (music and letters) on pp. 56–9. Includes facsimiles.
1176 Smith, Carleton. “Music Manuscripts Lost During World War II.” The Book Collector 17 (1) (1968): 26–36.
Smith provides an overview of the numerous important manuscripts that were held in the Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz before they disappeared during World War II. Some of the FMB manuscripts are identified on pp. 34–35. (Almost all of them are now known to be in the Biblioteca Jagiellon´ska, Kraków.)
1177 Staehelin, Martin. “Musikalien aus dem Besitz von Mendelssohns Freund Karl Klingemann.” In Ernst Herttrich and Hans Schneider, eds., Festschrift Rudolf Elvers zum 60. Geburtstag. Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 1985, pp. 483–90.
1178 Turner, J. Rigbie. “Nineteenth-Century Autograph Music Manuscripts in the Pierpont Morgan Library: A Check List.” 19th-Century Music 4 (1980): 49–69. Also published separately under the same title (New York: The [Pierpont Morgan] Library, 1982). 53 pp. ISBN 0875980775.
FMB is discussed on pp. 165–67 in the periodical publication and pp. 35–37 in the book.
1179 Walker, Ernest. “An Oxford Collection of Mendelssohniana.” Music and Letters 19 (1938): 426–28.
A description of the sizable collection of FMB autographs then in the possession of Margaret Deneke. See also Margaret Crum’s and Peter Ward Jones’s catalogs of the Oxford Mendelssohniana (items 1139, 1140, and 1182).
1180 ——“Mendelssohn’s Die einsame Insel.” Music and Letters 26 (1945): 148–50.
An examination of an early autograph score for the Hebrides Overture and a comparison of the variants with the published version.
1181 Ward Jones, Peter. “The Library of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.” In Ernst Herttrich and Hans Schneider, eds. Festschrift Rudolf Elvers zum 60. Geburtstag. Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 1985, pp. 289–328.
An invaluable tool for documenting the considerable library of one of the nineteenth century’s most culturally versatile composers. At the core of the article is an inventory FMB prepared in the autumn of 1844 as he prepared to return to Leipzig from his frustrating tenure as Generalmusikdirektor in the service of Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. Divided into four main lists: (1) Mendelssohn’s books in the 1844 list; (2) books in an 1835 inventory which do not appear in the 1844 list; (3) other extant books known to have belonged to FMB; and (4) books known only from a list of books lent in 1839. Where possible, complete bibliographic information and the present location of the items are given.
1182 ——Catalogue of the Mendelssohn Papers in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, Volume III: Printed Music and Books. Musikbibliographische Arbeiten, Bd. 9. Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 1989. 133 pp. ISBN 3795205417.
The third and final volume in the series initiated by Margaret Crum (see items 1139 and 1140). Includes a list of errata for the previous volumes.
1183 ——Mendelssohn: An Exhibition to Celebrate the Life of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809–1847). Oxford: Bodleian Library, 1997. ISBN 1851240527. 68 pp.
1184 ——“Mendelssohn Scores in the Library of the Royal Philharmonic Society.” In Christian Martin Schmidt, ed., Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Kongreß-Bericht Berlin 1994. Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1997, pp. 64–75.
The author discusses FMB manuscripts preserved in the library of the Philharmonic Society of London, an orchestra central to FMB’s English career. In addition to three scores widely known and easily accessible since 1914—those for the C-minor Symphony, Op. 11; the “Trumpet” Overture; and the Fair Melusine Overture—Ward Jones discusses eight further non-autograph scores that provide significant source material. These “new” scores pertain to the Hebrides Overture, the A-major (“Italian”) Symphony, the Fair Melusine Overture, the still-unpublished 1834 concert aria Infelice! /Ah, ritorna, età dell’ oro, the 1846 concert aria On Lena’s Gloomy Heath (likewise still unpublished), the Violin Concerto (Op. 64), the Overture to Die Hochzeit des Camacho, and a bass aria from Elijah.
1185 Wehner, Ralf. “‘ … ich zeigte Mendelssohns Albumblatt vor und Alles war gut.’ Zur Bedeutung der Stammbucheintragungen und Albumblätter von Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.” In Christian Martin Schmidt, ed., Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Kongreß-Bericht Berlin 1994. Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1997, pp. 37–63.
This article concerns the significance of Albumblätter in FMB sources. Focuses on the Lied ohne Worte Op. 62 No. 3.
1186 ——“‘It Seems to Have Been Lost’: on Missing and Recovered Mendelssohn Sources.” In John Michael Cooper and Julie D. Prandi, eds., The Mendelssohns: Their Music in History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 3–25.
Investigates sources believed lost. Includes three appendixes listing lost or missing sources with secondary references to their prior existence.
1187 ——“‘There Is Probably No Better Living Authority on Mendelssohn’s Autograph’: W. T. Freemantle und seine Mendelssohn-Sammlung.” Mendelssohn-Studien 16 (2009): 333–69.
Provides a brief biography of William T. Freemantle (1849–1931) and details the provenance of the collection, its sale to Lord Edward Allen Brotherton, and its dissolution. Includes a catalog of the musical manuscripts from the collection with current locations.
1188 Werner, Eric. “Mendelssohn Sources.” Notes 12 (1954/55): 201–04.
An appropriate critical review of the misinformation propagated by the Rietz “Collected Works” edition and a plea for a serious return to primary sources.
1189 ——“The Family Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.” Bulletin of the New York Public Library 65 (1960): 5–20. Reprinted in E. Werner, Three Ages of Musical Thought: Essays on Ethics and Aesthetics, New York: Da Capo, 1981, pp. 351–65.
1190 ——“Mendelssohniana: dem Andenken Wilhelm Fischers.” Die Musikforschung 27 (1975): 19–33. Reprinted in Gerhard Schuhmacher, ed., Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Wege der Forschung, Bd. 494. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1982, pp. 76–98.
Written in the early prime of the ongoing FMB revival, this is an articulation of vital issues confronting FMB scholars, including: a return to primary sources; clarification and correction of biographical information; a critique of the composer’s overall œuvre; a critique of individual works; and a serious confrontation of the difficulties of the FMB reception history (especially as concerns the FMB–Wagner controversy).
1191 ——“Mendelssohniana II: den Manen Egon Wellesz’, des Freundes und des Mentors.” Die Musikforschung 30 (1977): 492–501. Reprinted in Gerhard Schuhmacher, ed., Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Wege der Forschung, Bd. 494. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1982, pp. 399–418.
This article comments on information provided by new investigations of primary sources, then launches into a summary/review of Dahlhaus’s seminal Das Problem Mendelssohn (item 4).
1192 Wolff, Hellmuth Christian. “Zur Erstausgabe von Mendelssohns Jugendsinfonien.” Deutsches Jahrbuch für Musikwissenschaft 12 (1967): 96–115.
FMB’s early string sinfonie were omitted from the so-called “Collected Works” edited by Julius Rietz in the 1870s, and they remained unpublished until the 1960s, when they appeared in the early volumes of the new Leipziger Ausgabe der Werke Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdys under Wolff’s editorship. This article explores a number of issues raised by the works’ first publication, as well as surveying the source-situation and a description of some aspects of the music.
1193 Zappalà, Pietro. “Autografi mendelssohniani a Milano.” Musica e cultura 2 (1988): 91–98.
1194 ——“Autografi mendelssohniani in Italia.” Cremona: [private publication], 1991. Expanded version as Zappalà, Pietro. “Autographe von Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in Italien.” Mendelssohn-Studien 10 (1997): 77–96.
Ironically (given the important role played by Italy in studies of FMB’s life and works), there has been little work on sources currently preserved in Italian libraries. This article is a crucial first step, although other important manuscripts doubtless remain to be located. Includes an inventory of the autographs, transcriptions of ten letters (to Friedrich Hofmeister, Luigi Rossi, Michelangelo Russo, Louis Spohr, and Breitkopf & Härtel, among others), as well as descriptions of four music autographs (Op. 37 and 93, as well as two canons).
Commentators have long referred to Mendelssohn’s remarkable ability as a draftsman and aquarellist (indeed, reproductions of his numerous drawings and watercolors grace many studies), and the abundant contemporary drawings and portraits of the composer likewise provide valuable insights into his public and private persona as he rose to international fame over the course of his lifetime. Because of the complementary insights provided by FMB’s own visual artworks and visual artworks concerning him, this section is simply headed “Mendelssohn and the Visual Arts.”
1195 Crum, Margaret. “Mendelssohn’s Drawing and the Doubled Life of Memory.” In Rudolf Elvers, ed., Festschrift Albi Rosenthal. Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 1984, pp. 87–103.
An insightful exploration of the ways in which FMB’s drawings, far from representing simply accomplished amateur sketching, are commemorative of “little certain moments which Mendelssohn himself thought worth remembering.” The drawings thus lend insight into the events and people considered significant by the composer himself.
1196 Klein, Hans-Günter. “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy als Zeichner auf Reisen.” In Reiko Koyanagi, ed., Mendelssohn,pp.5–9 in supplement (in German) and pp. 24–30 in text (translated into Japanese). Oneiros, 7. Tokyo: Iwasaki Bijutsusha, 1992.
See also Larry Todd’s essay in the same volume (item 1201).
1197 ——“Theodor Hildebrandt und Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in Italien: Aus den Tagebuchaufzeichnungen des Malers 1830/31.” Mendelssohn-Studien 13 (2003): 81–100.
Includes a color plate of a watercolor by Mendelssohn, “In der Casa di Don Tommaso,” 12 March 1835.
1198 ——Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Schweizer Skizzenbuch 1842. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2008. 54 pp. ISBN 9783895004834.
This is a beautifully presented facsimile of Mendelssohn’s pencil drawings during his trip to Switzerland with his wife, brother Paul, and sister-in-law Albertine. Includes an introduction in both German and English, detailing the journey with quotations from letters and memoires. Manuscript is from the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin–Preußischer Kulturbesitz, MA Ms. 21.
1199 Koyanagi, Reiko. Mendelssohn. Oneiros No. 7. Tokyo: Iwasaki Bijutsusha, 1992. 71 pp. ISBN 4753413063.
The most lavishly illustrated volume of FMB’s drawings and water-colors. See the essays by Hans-Günter Klein and R. Larry Todd (items 1196 and 1201).
1200 Schneider, Max F. Ein unbekanntes Mendelssohn-Bildnis von Johann Peter Lyser (see item 70). Basel: n.p., 1958. 57 pp.
1201 Todd, R. Larry. “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.” In Reiko Koyanagi, ed., Mendelssohn,pp.1–5 in supplement (English) and pp. 62–67 in text (translated into Japanese). Oneiros, 7. Tokyo: Iwasaki Bijutsusha, 1992.
See also Hans-Günter Klein’s essay in the same volume (item 1196).
1202 Ward Jones, Peter. “Felix und Cécile Mendelssohn Bartholdy als bildende Künstler.” In Bernd Heyder and Christoph Spering, eds., Blickpunkt FELIX Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Programmbuch Drei Tage für Felix vom 30.10 bis 1.11.1994. Cologne: Dohr, 1994, pp. 27–33.
1203 Worbs, Hans Christoph. “Von Komponisten, die malen, und Malern, die komponieren.” Musik und Medizin 1 (8) (1975): 70–71.
1204 ——“Mendelssohn as Maler und Zeichner und sein Verhaltnis zur bildenden Kunst.” In Gerhard Schuhmacher, ed., Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Wege der Forschung, Bd. 494. Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1982, pp. 100–37.
In contrast to Chopin, who was a caricaturist, Mendelssohn was at first primarily a landscape painter who painted to maintain a recollection rather than for an artist purpose. Later, painting became for him “a private amusement but also a passion.” After Fanny’s death, he drew comfort from drawing and watercolor. His more serious works are studio productions; that is, they are not painted al fresco but in the studio from sketches or recollection. The article contains information about Mendelssohn’s relations with visual artists: Horace Vernet, Berthel Thorwaldsen, Wilhelm von Schadow, Julius Hübner, and other artists in Düsseldorf. There is also a discussion of Mendelssohn’s relation to the visual arts of the past. [DM/JMC]
1205 Cullen, Michael. “Leipziger Straße Drei: Eine Baubiographie.” Mendelssohn-Studien 5 (1982): 9–77.
An important “building history” of the celebrated edifice that in 1825 became the Mendelssohn family home in Berlin. This article traces the property’s ownership and plans from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth century. Includes numerous illustrations, among them two drawings by FMB; the plans for the remodeling undertaken when Abraham Mendelssohn acquired the property in 1825; and several photographs.
1206 Dümling, Albrecht. “Licht in die Dunkelkammer: Pläne für das Leipziger Wohn- und Sterbehaus von Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.” Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 153 (2) (1992): 20–21.
The author outlines plans for the restoration of the FMB house in Leipzig, as well as those for the recovery and resurrection of the Gewandhaus’s Mendelssohn monument (destroyed by the Nazis). The plans have now come to fruition, but in some ways differently than envisioned.
1207 Elvers, Rudolf. “Leipziger Straße 3.” In Rudolf Elvers and HansGünter Klein, eds., Die Mendelssohns in Berlin: Eine Familie und ihre Stadt. Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin–Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Ausstellungskataloge 20. Berlin: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin–Preußischer Kulturbesitz, 1983, pp. 169–79.
Not a Baubiographie, but an overview of the personages, performances, and works that populated the remarkable life of the family’s palatial Berlin home.
1208 Giesau, Peter. “Das Palais Mendelssohn Bartholdy in Berlin und die Entwürfe Carl Theodor Ottners zum Umbau aus dem Jahr 1825.” Mendelssohn-Studien 12 (2001): 56–66.
Traces the renovations to the final Mendelssohn home at Leipzigerstrasse 3, including sketches of the façade and the floor plan by Ottner.
1209 Kliem, Manfred. “Die Berliner Mendelssohn-Adresse Neue Promenade 7: Zeitliche Zuordnung und soziales Umfeld als Forschungsanliegen.” Mendelssohn-Studien 7 (1990): 123–40.
A thorough and useful study of the building that was the Berlin home to the Mendelssohn family from their move to the Prussian capital in 1811 until the move to Leipziger Straße 3 in 1825.
1210 Lowenthal-Hensel, Cécile. “Neues zur Leipziger Straße Drei.” Mendelssohn-Studien 7 (1990): 141–51.
A complement to Michael Cullen’s study of the house (item 1205), focusing on financial aspects of the construction. This article includes facsimiles of four drawings by FMB.
1211 Meyer-Krahmer, Marianne. “Carl Goerdeler und das Mendelssohn-Denkmal.” In Leon Botstein, ed., Felix Mendelssohn—Mitwelt und Nachwelt: Bericht zum 1. Leipziger Mendelssohn-Kolloquium am 8. und 9. Juni 1993. Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1996, pp. 60–63.
1212 Reich, Ines. “In Stein und Bronze: Zur Geschichte des Leipziger Mendelssohn-Denkmals 1868–1936.” In Leon Botstein, ed., Felix Mendelssohn—Mitwelt und Nachwelt: Bericht zum 1. Leipziger Mendelssohn-Kolloquium am 8. und 9. Juni 1993. Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1996, pp. 31–53.
1213 Richter, Brigitte. “Das ‘Mendelssohn-Zimmer’ in Leipzig.” Musik und Gesellschaft 22 (1972): 646–52.
1214 Wehner, Ralf. “Das Ende des Mendelssohn-Denkmals: Eine Dokumentation.” Ph.D. diss., Universität Leipzig, 1991.