fmb-1832-08-22-01

            My dear Sir
I have to beg your pardon that the first letter I write to you is to be a letter of business, but if it was not for that I should not venture to give you the trouble of reading so bad an English as mine is. – I do not try to repeat you the thanks for all your kindnesses because I am not able to express it as I wish to do and as I feel it.
I want to-day to ask you whether you still remember your writing to me once that you wished me to compose an evening and morning-service for publication in your country? I could not then fix the time when I was to do it, as it was the first thing in that style I was to compose, but as soon as I got quiet here I tried to begin the Te Deum in the style of your cathedralmusic and it is now finished. Although it is not entirely as I wish it to be and though I hope the following pieces will be better, I do not think it unworth being published and I accordingly want to ask you whether you are still of the opinion, which you expressed then to me in your kind note and whether I am to go on with the composition of the services and to send it to you, when it is finished. You asked me also for my terms; but I am really at a loss to fix them, as I never published any composition of the kind in your country; you would oblige me particularly if you would tell me your opinion on this subject, or if you do not like this let me know how you use to pay other composers in that style that I may fix my terms accordingly.
I hope if you answer to this you will write me at large how you & how your family is going on, I want to know which painting your son is working at, what progresses the charming talent of your daughter has made, pray let me know every thing that concerns you & your family. It is now so long, since I did not hear from you & you know how glad I shall be to have news of you and all my friends there. I have still to thank you for the kindness you showed me in having my pianoforte-melodies sold at your house; I think they must now be published already and am exceedingly obliged to you for your kind & friendly behaviour. Adieu, my dear Sir, excuse this letter & let me soon hear a great deal from you. Believe me to remain
yours very truly
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Berlin Aug. 22d 1832.          

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Novello</addrLine> <addrLine>Esqu.</addrLine> <addrLine>London</addrLine> <addrLine>67 Frith Street, Soho.</addrLine> <addrLine>via Hamburgh &amp; steamboat«</addrLine> </address> </head> </div> <div type="annotation" xml:id="div_102d67dc-d4e8-4dd4-a070-fc254ed225eb"> <note type="other-third-party-annotation" xml:id="note_51caecfc-24bc-4279-a9a4-70916a5b57ae">Vermerk von fremder Hand auf der Adressenseite: »(From Felix Mendelssohn)«.</note> </div> <div n="1" type="act_of_writing" xml:id="div_b54dcc52-78f9-470a-a1f4-b04a52dcbda4"><docAuthor key="PSN0000001" resp="author" style="hidden">Mendelssohn Bartholdy (bis 1816: Mendelssohn), Jacob Ludwig Felix (1809-1847)</docAuthor><docAuthor key="PSN0000001" resp="writer" style="hidden">Mendelssohn Bartholdy (bis 1816: Mendelssohn), Jacob Ludwig Felix (1809-1847)</docAuthor><salute rend="left">My dear Sir</salute><p style="paragraph_without_indent">I have to beg your pardon that the first letter I write to you is to be a letter of business, but if it was not for that I should not venture to give you the trouble of reading so bad an English as mine is. – I do not try to repeat you the thanks for all your kindnesses because I am not able to express it as I wish to do and as I feel it.</p><p>I want to-day to ask you whether you still remember your writing to me once that you wished me to compose <title xml:id="title_07038525-cffe-4f8d-b2ce-49723b38a490">an evening and morning-service<list style="hidden" type="fmb_works_directory" xml:id="title_kog706ec-9mpi-uqbo-35fy-3paykaoge1ab"> <item n="1" sortKey="musical_works" style="hidden"></item> <item n="2" sortKey="vocal_music" style="hidden"></item> <item n="3" sortKey="sacred_vocal_music" style="hidden"></item> <item n="4" sortKey="sacred_vocal_works_with_smaller_instrumentation" style="hidden"></item></list><name key="PSN0000001" style="hidden" type="author">Mendelssohn Bartholdy (bis 1816: Mendelssohn), Jacob Ludwig Felix (1809-1847)</name><name key="PRC0100135" style="hidden">Te Deum »We praise thee, O God« (Morning Service) für Solostimmen, gemischten Chor und Orgel, [August 1832]<idno type="MWV">B 25</idno><idno type="op"></idno></name></title> for publication in your country? I could not then fix the time when I was to do it, as it was the first thing in that style I was to compose, but as soon as I got quiet here I tried to begin the Te Deum in the style of your cathedralmusic and <title xml:id="title_e335be27-4e9a-4da5-aa0c-ca770aaddaf3">it<list style="hidden" type="fmb_works_directory" xml:id="title_uhvp9bxc-w0my-fnbz-uif4-y8v6mf9iqdvg"> <item n="1" sortKey="musical_works" style="hidden"></item> <item n="2" sortKey="vocal_music" style="hidden"></item> <item n="3" sortKey="sacred_vocal_music" style="hidden"></item> <item n="4" sortKey="sacred_vocal_works_with_smaller_instrumentation" style="hidden"></item></list><name key="PSN0000001" style="hidden" type="author">Mendelssohn Bartholdy (bis 1816: Mendelssohn), Jacob Ludwig Felix (1809-1847)</name><name key="PRC0100135" style="hidden">Te Deum »We praise thee, O God« (Morning Service) für Solostimmen, gemischten Chor und Orgel, [August 1832]<idno type="MWV">B 25</idno><idno type="op"></idno></name></title> is now finished. Although it is not entirely as I wish it to be and though I hope the following pieces will be better, I do not think it unworth being published and I accordingly want to ask you whether you are still of the opinion, which you expressed then to me in your kind note and whether I am to go on with <title xml:id="title_2c63714d-4b02-46a6-85cd-248e51b2ea67">the composition of the services<list style="hidden" type="fmb_works_directory" xml:id="title_i10ry0js-hrfj-g7bg-qpwg-4jomvspspohr"> <item n="1" sortKey="musical_works" style="hidden"></item> <item n="2" sortKey="vocal_music" style="hidden"></item> <item n="3" sortKey="sacred_vocal_music" style="hidden"></item> <item n="4" sortKey="sacred_vocal_works_with_smaller_instrumentation" style="hidden"></item></list><name key="PSN0000001" style="hidden" type="author">Mendelssohn Bartholdy (bis 1816: Mendelssohn), Jacob Ludwig Felix (1809-1847)</name><name key="PRC0100135" style="hidden">Te Deum »We praise thee, O God« (Morning Service) für Solostimmen, gemischten Chor und Orgel, [August 1832]<idno type="MWV">B 25</idno><idno type="op"></idno></name></title> and to send it to you, when it is finished. You asked me also for my terms; but I am really at a loss to fix them, as I never published any composition of the kind in your country; you would oblige me particularly if you would tell me <hi rend="underline">your</hi> opinion on <title xml:id="title_27c2b464-e309-4b50-bf21-92fa05d31761">this subject<list style="hidden" type="fmb_works_directory" xml:id="title_vow3zsce-syej-hmqg-dus9-b159k6spzdxj"> <item n="1" sortKey="musical_works" style="hidden"></item> <item n="2" sortKey="vocal_music" style="hidden"></item> <item n="3" sortKey="sacred_vocal_music" style="hidden"></item> <item n="4" sortKey="sacred_vocal_works_with_smaller_instrumentation" style="hidden"></item></list><name key="PSN0000001" style="hidden" type="author">Mendelssohn Bartholdy (bis 1816: Mendelssohn), Jacob Ludwig Felix (1809-1847)</name><name key="PRC0100135" style="hidden">Te Deum »We praise thee, O God« (Morning Service) für Solostimmen, gemischten Chor und Orgel, [August 1832]<idno type="MWV">B 25</idno><idno type="op"></idno></name></title>, or if you do not like this let me know how you use to pay other composers in that style that I may fix my terms accordingly.</p><p>I hope if you answer to this you will write me at large how you &amp; how <persName xml:id="persName_21e1b242-65f8-4c5a-b8d3-c7bee9f475fa">your family<name key="PSN0113620" style="hidden">Novello, Familie von → Vincent N.</name></persName> is going on, I want to know which painting <persName xml:id="persName_af4bd07e-e357-4962-b55c-9aa9e2c37562">your son<name key="PSN0113622" style="hidden">Novello, Edward Petre (1813-1836)</name></persName> is working at, what progresses the charming talent of your <persName xml:id="persName_0cd67af6-7f33-4e00-9886-6c66a3cc1546">daughter<name key="PSN0113621" style="hidden">Novello, Clara Anastasia (1818-1908)</name></persName> has made, pray let me know every thing that concerns you &amp; <persName xml:id="persName_654c67ae-d201-4c44-aee9-a5c03c34dc24">your family<name key="PSN0113620" style="hidden">Novello, Familie von → Vincent N.</name></persName>. It is now so long, since I did not hear from you &amp; you know how glad I shall be to have news of you and all my friends there. I have still to thank you for the kindness you showed me in having <title xml:id="title_fe9d7647-31ad-4200-8630-5c09f1a4eb32">my pianoforte-melodies<list style="hidden" type="fmb_works_directory" xml:id="title_g2jbrdl8-q5yo-b4o2-jjze-3f17mnrwbpt9"> <item n="1" sortKey="musical_works" style="hidden"></item> <item n="2" sortKey="collective_sources" style="hidden"></item> <item n="3" sortKey="collective_prints" style="hidden"></item></list><name key="PSN0000001" style="hidden" type="author">Mendelssohn Bartholdy (bis 1816: Mendelssohn), Jacob Ludwig Felix (1809-1847)</name><name key="PRC0100621" style="hidden">Sechs Lieder ohne Worte für Klavier, 1. Heft, 1832; enthält MWV U 86, U 80, U 89, U 73, U 90 und U 78<idno type="MWV">SD 5</idno><idno type="op">19b</idno></name></title> sold at your house; I think they must now be published already and am exceedingly obliged to you for your kind &amp; friendly behaviour. <seg type="closer" xml:id="seg_f652d724-8fe4-4622-8000-d9ac4871a17b">Adieu, my dear Sir, excuse this letter &amp; let me soon hear a great deal from you. Believe me to remain</seg></p><signed rend="right">yours very truly</signed><signed rend="right">Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy</signed><dateline rend="left">Berlin <date cert="high" when="1832-08-22" xml:id="date_ae0d527b-cc4b-4a20-a145-369c6dbe6ec5">Aug. 22<hi rend="superscript">d</hi> 1832</date>.</dateline></div></body> </text></TEI>