fmb-1837-09-01-01

            Sir
I am very sorry to be obliged to inform you that in consequence of a letter from Birmingham which I received this morning I must give up the pleasure of conducting my Oratorio at your Society. The feeling of the Committee of Birmingham appears to be still the same on the subject, although they admitted that they had no right in preventing me from conducting it elsewhere, & as I do not like hurt their feelings I prefer to be alone the loser and make for them a sacrifice which I assure you is extremely painful to me.
Should it be possible that your performance could be postponed till the Saturday after the Birmingham Festival (the 23 of Sept. ) I should be able to conduct, and it would be a true pleasure for me if this could be the case.
But if it cannot be postponed to that day and must stand for the Tuesday before the Festival I beg you will receive my regrets, for not being able to do as I should have wished, & present to the Committee of your Society my sincere thanks for the honour they did me & my most heartfelt regrets for the loss of pleasure, I feel in declining their kind & honouring offers. I have the honour to be, Sir
your obedt Servt
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy          

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Bowley.</addrLine> <addrLine>Sacred Harmonic Soc:</addrLine> <addrLine>London.</addrLine> </address> </head> </div> <div n="1" type="act_of_writing" xml:id="div_e88ebd0b-829b-4dca-bae7-d53e317c7c29"> <docAuthor key="PSN0000001" resp="author" style="hidden" xml:id="docAuthor_e2d7ffcc-5c29-4e4a-aa75-c63d5e68bacb">Mendelssohn Bartholdy (bis 1816: Mendelssohn), Jacob Ludwig Felix (1809-1847)</docAuthor> <docAuthor key="PSN0000001" resp="writer" style="hidden" xml:id="docAuthor_2df5a66e-a5cc-48fa-95e0-8a8010c01b45">Mendelssohn Bartholdy (bis 1816: Mendelssohn), Jacob Ludwig Felix (1809-1847)</docAuthor> <salute rend="left">Sir</salute> <p style="paragraph_without_indent">I am very sorry to be obliged to inform you that in consequence of a letter from Birmingham which I received this morning I must give up the pleasure of conducting <title xml:id="title_fa94f837-a811-494f-8141-5c948c1d471c">my Oratorio<list style="hidden" type="fmb_works_directory" xml:id="title_vtsoy2v9-jx4n-zuij-aqfb-yyrkck3fh0oi"> <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="large-scale_sacred_vocal_works" style="hidden"></item></list><name key="PSN0000001" style="hidden" type="author">Mendelssohn Bartholdy (bis 1816: Mendelssohn), Jacob Ludwig Felix (1809-1847)</name><name key="PRC0100114" style="hidden">Paulus / St. Paul, Oratorium nach Worten der Heiligen Schrift für Solostimmen, gemischten Chor, Orchester und Orgel, [1832] bis 18. 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I should be able to conduct, and it would be a true pleasure for me if this could be the case.</p> <p>But if it cannot be postponed to that day and must stand for the Tuesday before the <placeName xml:id="placeName_6889af47-da67-433d-92e6-94343e2753e9">Festival<name key="NST0100324" style="hidden" subtype="" type="institution">The Birmingham Triennial Music Festival</name><settlement key="STM0100323" style="hidden" type="">Birmingham</settlement><country style="hidden">Großbritannien</country></placeName> I beg you will receive my regrets, for not being able to do as I should have wished, &amp; present to the <placeName xml:id="placeName_3c787e78-db7f-4651-9fee-e42ce2b1c6c1">Committee of your Society<name key="NST0100544" style="hidden" subtype="" type="institution">Sacred Harmonic Society</name><settlement key="STM0100126" style="hidden" type="">London</settlement><country style="hidden">Großbritannien</country></placeName> my sincere thanks for the honour they did me &amp; my most heartfelt regrets for the loss of pleasure, I feel in declining their kind &amp; honouring offers. <seg type="closer" xml:id="seg_132c58fb-d629-4f2b-b4a8-812fe3727eca">I have the honour to be, Sir</seg></p> </div> <div n="1" type="act_of_writing" xml:id="div_46ef6691-456b-4cdd-9cf4-02a4796dea58"> <signed rend="right">your obed<hi rend="superscript">t</hi> Serv<hi rend="superscript">t</hi></signed> <signed rend="right">Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy</signed> </div></body> </text></TEI>