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Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy an Alfred Novello in London <lb></lb>Leipzig, 19. Dezember 1837 although I wrote to Mrs. Anderson last week about my Concerto & asked her to communicate to you the content of my letter, I hasten to repeat the same in answer to your letter, received Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Correspondence Online (FMB-C) noch nicht ermittelt noch nicht ermittelt Mendelssohn Bartholdy (bis 1816: Mendelssohn), Jacob Ludwig Felix (1809-1847)Mendelssohn Bartholdy (bis 1816: Mendelssohn), Jacob Ludwig Felix (1809-1847) Transkription: FMB-C Edition: FMB-C Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Correspondence Online-Ausgabe (FMB-C). Institut für Musikwissenschaft und Medienwissenschaft. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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Maschinenlesbare Übertragung der vollständigen Korrespondenz Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdys (FMB-C)

Deutschland Leipzig D-LEsm Leipzig, Stadtgeschichtliches Museum Musik- und Theatergeschichte MT/2011/492, fol. 1-2. Autograph Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy an Alfred Novello in London; Leipzig, 19. Dezember 1837 although I wrote to Mrs. Anderson last week about my Concerto & asked her to communicate to you the content of my letter, I hasten to repeat the same in answer to your letter, received

4 beschr. S.; Adresse, mehrere Poststempel. – Datierung nach Z. 36 (»write him once more to-day«), die sich auf den am 19. Dezember 1837 an den Verlag N. Simrock geschriebenen Brief fmb-1837-12-19-05 (Brief Nr. 1822) bezieht. Laut Leipziger Poststempel sandte Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy vorliegenden Brief erst am 21. Dezember 1837 ab. Mehrfach Textverluste durch Beschädigung des Briefs an den Seitenrändern, Textergänzung.

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

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Die Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Correspondence Online-Ausgabe FMB-C ediert die Gesamtkorrespondenz des Komponisten Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy 1809-1847 in Form einer digitalen, wissenschaftlich-kritischen Online-Ausgabe. Sie bietet neben der diplomatischen Wiedergabe der rund 6.000 Briefe Mendelssohns erstmals auch eine Gesamtausgabe der über 7.200 Briefe an den Komponisten sowie einen textkritischen, inhalts- und kontexterschließenden Kommentar aller Briefe. Sie wird ergänzt durch eine Personen- und Werkdatenbank, eine Lebenschronologie Mendelssohns, zahlreicher Register der Briefe, Werke, Orte und Körperschaften sowie weitere Verzeichnisse. Philologisches Konzept, Philologische FMB-C-Editionsrichtlinien: Uta Wald, Dr. Ulrich Taschow. Digitales Konzept, Digitale FMB-C-Editionsrichtlinien: Dr. Ulrich Taschow. Technische Konzeption der Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Correspondence FMB-C Ausgabe und Webdesign: Dr. Ulrich Taschow.

19. Dezember 1837 Mendelssohn Bartholdy (bis 1816: Mendelssohn), Jacob Ludwig Felix (1809-1847)counter-resetMendelssohn Bartholdy (bis 1816: Mendelssohn), Jacob Ludwig Felix (1809-1847) Leipzig Deutschland Novello, Joseph Alfred (1810-1896) London Großbritannien englisch
J. Alfred Novello Esqure London 69 Dean St Soho.
Mendelssohn Bartholdy (bis 1816: Mendelssohn), Jacob Ludwig Felix (1809-1847)Mendelssohn Bartholdy (bis 1816: Mendelssohn), Jacob Ludwig Felix (1809-1847)Leipzig December 19.My dear Sir

although I wrote to Mrs. AndersonAnderson, Lucy (1790-1878) last week about my Concert[o]<list style="hidden" type="fmb_works_directory" xml:id="title_1dlkvw7z-yviu-fd9r-qrfl-eithfb5xcc7h"> <item n="1" sortKey="musical_works" style="hidden"></item> <item n="2" sortKey="instrumental_music" style="hidden"></item> <item n="3" sortKey="orchestral_music" style="hidden"></item> <item n="4" sortKey="concerts_and_concertante_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="PRC0100353" style="hidden">Konzert Nr. 2 d-Moll für Klavier und Orchester bzw. Streichorchester, [Mai 1837] bis 5. August 1837<idno type="MWV">O 11</idno><idno type="op">40</idno></name> & asked her to communicate to you the content of my letter, I hasten to repeat the same in answer to your letter, received [yes]terday, as I am really very sorry for the delay, which I am qui[te at a] loss how to account for. Indeed I cannot think it my […] a parcel sent by a house as Breitkopf & HärtelBreitkopf & Härtel (bis 1786: Breitkopf), Verlag und Musikalienhandlung in Leipzig seems as saf[ely] or more so as if sent direct. 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S. of the P[ia]noforte part<list style="hidden" type="fmb_works_directory" xml:id="title_nmukdbhc-4hbk-wrty-jf5x-hqajuyyyubna"> <item n="1" sortKey="musical_works" style="hidden"></item> <item n="2" sortKey="instrumental_music" style="hidden"></item> <item n="3" sortKey="orchestral_music" style="hidden"></item> <item n="4" sortKey="concerts_and_concertante_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="PRC0100353" style="hidden">Konzert Nr. 2 d-Moll für Klavier und Orchester bzw. Streichorchester, [Mai 1837] bis 5. August 1837<idno type="MWV">O 11</idno><idno type="op">40</idno></name>, the String-Instr. arranged so as to play the whole without the wind-instr., & a list of the different alterations […] parts of the score copied out, & a letter. Indeed if it […] for the list of alterations, which was very troublesome […] out, I should have sent already a second copy of all […] if it is not arrived when you receive this letter […] of post & I shall send it immediately. I [am] extremely sorry if your arrangement with Mrs. AndersonAnderson, Lucy (1790-1878) should be frustrated, as you say in your letter; indeed she wrote me some words which made me afraid of it. Should it be the case that she should decline it for want of time to practise, I am sure you could make a similar arrangement with Mme. DulckenDulcken, Marie Louise (1811-1850), who seems very anxious to play this Concerto<list style="hidden" type="fmb_works_directory" xml:id="title_zafjhg0v-qdmc-pqyz-x4me-07vqfefdd7w5"> <item n="1" sortKey="musical_works" style="hidden"></item> <item n="2" sortKey="instrumental_music" style="hidden"></item> <item n="3" sortKey="orchestral_music" style="hidden"></item> <item n="4" sortKey="concerts_and_concertante_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="PRC0100353" style="hidden">Konzert Nr. 2 d-Moll für Klavier und Orchester bzw. Streichorchester, [Mai 1837] bis 5. August 1837<idno type="MWV">O 11</idno><idno type="op">40</idno></name>, & who played the fo[rmer] one<list style="hidden" type="fmb_works_directory" xml:id="title_sfkmzzo3-ffpd-5idz-ewxy-uor6cmeqycvp"> <item n="1" sortKey="musical_works" style="hidden"></item> <item n="2" sortKey="instrumental_music" style="hidden"></item> <item n="3" sortKey="orchestral_music" style="hidden"></item> <item n="4" sortKey="concerts_and_concertante_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="PRC0100349" style="hidden">Konzert Nr. 1 g-Moll für Klavier und Orchester bzw. Streichorchester, [November 1830 bis Oktober 1831]<idno type="MWV">O 7</idno><idno type="op">25</idno></name> so very well, as I am told. She would be certainly glad to [do] it, if Mrs. AndersonAnderson, Lucy (1790-1878) refuses it – but this of course „entre nous“.

[…] and by the bye, – my friends tell me they read in the Examiner, some parts of the letter I wrote to you about Clara’sNovello, Clara Anastasia (1818-1908) great success; o God, I am not a fit person to write English letters for an English public – & pray why do you allow them to do so & to publish my non-sense about the pine-apples? This is certainly […] to the purpose; & sorry as I was when I saw my name in [the] controversies during my last stay in England, I am the more so when I hear of letters quoted in the Examiner & of all this kind of publicity […] always hated & deprecated in a musical man.

[…] do not receive my 3 Choral Pieces<list style="hidden" type="fmb_works_directory" xml:id="title_dgrmxgb1-jkur-zi5r-dclo-ifcsucgpxbfi"> <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="PRC0100134" style="hidden">»Veni Domine« / »Herr, erhöre uns« für Frauenchor und Orgel, 31. Dezember 1830<idno type="MWV">B 24</idno><idno type="op">39/1</idno></name><list style="hidden" type="fmb_works_directory" xml:id="title_1gwuycy0-rzdk-o1xu-2p8z-fwrlneujibh7"> <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="PRC0100139" style="hidden">»Laudate pueri Dominum« / »Ihr Kinder Israel« für Solostimmen, Frauenchor und Orgel, 14. August 1837<idno type="MWV">B 30</idno><idno type="op">39/2</idno></name><list style="hidden" type="fmb_works_directory" xml:id="title_02pkgat5-x7fi-tiii-ag8s-wdivgatmywfg"> <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="PRC0100133" style="hidden">»Surrexit pastor« / »Er ist ein guter Hirte« für Solostimmen, Frauenchor und Orgel, 30. Dezember 1830<idno type="MWV">B 23</idno><idno type="op">39/3</idno></name><list style="hidden" type="fmb_works_directory" xml:id="title_mncurxtk-8fuj-dmru-gsmh-7y2yo92fqh0x"> <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="PRC0100633" style="hidden">Drei Motetten für Frauenstimmen und Orgel, 1838; enthält MWV B 24, B 30 und B 23<idno type="MWV">SD 17</idno><idno type="op">39</idno></name> neither, I do not know […]te befalls my music. I directed SimrockN. Simrock, Musikverlag in Bonn to send them to [you mo]re than 4 months ago; I repeated the injunction when [I was in Lo]ndon in September, he wrote me about 2 months ago […] send them<list style="hidden" type="fmb_works_directory" xml:id="title_o3njnqcz-fo04-nl3x-0zhw-e8zvkqvlxecy"> <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="PRC0100134" style="hidden">»Veni Domine« / »Herr, erhöre uns« für Frauenchor und Orgel, 31. Dezember 1830<idno type="MWV">B 24</idno><idno type="op">39/1</idno></name><list style="hidden" type="fmb_works_directory" xml:id="title_exa5euhd-vaja-2idm-1taz-9xlgwl98fqna"> <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="PRC0100139" style="hidden">»Laudate pueri Dominum« / »Ihr Kinder Israel« für Solostimmen, Frauenchor und Orgel, 14. August 1837<idno type="MWV">B 30</idno><idno type="op">39/2</idno></name><list style="hidden" type="fmb_works_directory" xml:id="title_gua9bpar-gb8b-1xzz-gcre-qw0zlj0gotdo"> <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="PRC0100133" style="hidden">»Surrexit pastor« / »Er ist ein guter Hirte« für Solostimmen, Frauenchor und Orgel, 30. Dezember 1830<idno type="MWV">B 23</idno><idno type="op">39/3</idno></name><list style="hidden" type="fmb_works_directory" xml:id="title_3dlwhhko-eafb-amip-9uau-iqxrsodwftf3"> <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="PRC0100633" style="hidden">Drei Motetten für Frauenstimmen und Orgel, 1838; enthält MWV B 24, B 30 und B 23<idno type="MWV">SD 17</idno><idno type="op">39</idno></name> by next post – if you have no[…] at a loss & innocent. He has not publis[hed …] I & write him once more to-day to enquire after their fate.

Your motherNovello, Mary Sabilla (1787-1854) & sisterNovello, Clara Anastasia (1818-1908) went to Weimar some days ago, where ClaraNovello, Clara Anastasia (1818-1908) was to sing at Court; they proposed going to Rudolstadt where there is another Court & perhaps to Coburg where there is also a great unknown, viz: Court. (viz. not for the Examiner or any paper but this sheet.) & we hope to see them again for the ConcertGewandhausLeipzigDeutschland on the 1st Jan. When I see the familyNovello, Familie von → Vincent N., I shall communicate to them the receipt of your letter & [yo]ur messages. My best regards to Mr.Clarke, Charles Cowden (1787-1877) & Mrs. ClarkeClarke, Mary Victoria Cowden (1809-1898) & believe [me] very truly yours

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.
            Leipzig December 19. My dear Sir
although I wrote to Mrs. Anderson last week about my Concerto & asked her to communicate to you the content of my letter, I hasten to repeat the same in answer to your letter, received yesterday, as I am really very sorry for the delay, which I am quite at a loss how to account for. Indeed I cannot think it my … a parcel sent by a house as Breitkopf & Härtel seems as safely or more so as if sent direct. They wrote me last week, that their parcel, in which my Concerto was contained, had left Leipzig in the second week of November, that it was directed to Mess. Cocks & Co., musicsellers, & that it must … have been in London long ago. It was my M. S. of the Pianoforte part, the String-Instr. arranged so as to play the whole without the wind-instr., & a list of the different alterations … parts of the score copied out, & a letter. Indeed if it … for the list of alterations, which was very troublesome … out, I should have sent already a second copy of all … if it is not arrived when you receive this letter … of post & I shall send it immediately. I am extremely sorry if your arrangement with Mrs. Anderson should be frustrated, as you say in your letter; indeed she wrote me some words which made me afraid of it. Should it be the case that she should decline it for want of time to practise, I am sure you could make a similar arrangement with Mme. Dulcken, who seems very anxious to play this Concerto, & who played the former one so very well, as I am told. She would be certainly glad to do it, if Mrs. Anderson refuses it – but this of course „entre nous“.
… and by the bye, – my friends tell me they read in the Examiner, some parts of the letter I wrote to you about Clara’s great success; o God, I am not a fit person to write English letters for an English public – & pray why do you allow them to do so & to publish my non-sense about the pine-apples? This is certainly … to the purpose; & sorry as I was when I saw my name in the controversies during my last stay in England, I am the more so when I hear of letters quoted in the Examiner & of all this kind of publicity … always hated & deprecated in a musical man.
… do not receive my 3 Choral Pieces neither, I do not know …te befalls my music. I directed Simrock to send them to you more than 4 months ago; I repeated the injunction when I was in London in September, he wrote me about 2 months ago … send them by next post – if you have no… at a loss & innocent. He has not published … I & write him once more to-day to enquire after their fate.
Your mother & sister went to Weimar some days ago, where Clara was to sing at Court; they proposed going to Rudolstadt where there is another Court & perhaps to Coburg where there is also a great unknown, viz: Court. (viz. not for the Examiner or any paper but this sheet. ) & we hope to see them again for the Concert on the 1st Jan. When I see the family, I shall communicate to them the receipt of your letter & your messages. My best regards to Mr. & Mrs. Clarke & believe me very truly yours
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.          
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Sie bietet neben der diplomatischen Wiedergabe der rund 6.000 Briefe Mendelssohns erstmals auch eine Gesamtausgabe der über 7.200 Briefe an den Komponisten sowie einen textkritischen, inhalts- und kontexterschließenden Kommentar aller Briefe. Sie wird ergänzt durch eine Personen- und Werkdatenbank, eine Lebenschronologie Mendelssohns, zahlreicher Register der Briefe, Werke, Orte und Körperschaften sowie weitere Verzeichnisse. Philologisches Konzept,  Philologische FMB-C-Editionsrichtlinien: Uta Wald, Dr. Ulrich Taschow. Digitales Konzept, Digitale FMB-C-Editionsrichtlinien: Dr. Ulrich Taschow. Technische Konzeption der Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Correspondence FMB-C Ausgabe und Webdesign: Dr. Ulrich Taschow.</p></editorialDecl></encodingDesc> <profileDesc> <creation> <date cert="high" when="1837-12-19" xml:id="date_068a7378-6ea2-49cb-9015-7580708b90ea">19. Dezember 1837</date></creation> <correspDesc> <correspAction type="sent"> <persName key="PSN0000001" resp="author" xml:id="persName_78e8b29c-c5c9-404b-ad25-751e7c72a325">Mendelssohn Bartholdy (bis 1816: Mendelssohn), Jacob Ludwig Felix (1809-1847)</persName><note>counter-reset</note><persName key="PSN0000001" resp="writer">Mendelssohn Bartholdy (bis 1816: Mendelssohn), Jacob Ludwig Felix (1809-1847)</persName> <placeName type="writing_place" xml:id="placeName_832aaa40-a2e1-4bc3-a1e4-4f1e2e626baa"> <settlement key="STM0100116">Leipzig</settlement> <country>Deutschland</country></placeName></correspAction> <correspAction type="received"> <persName key="PSN0113624" resp="receiver" xml:id="persName_b32d9908-074a-49cc-a558-e582ba5485dd">Novello, Joseph Alfred (1810-1896)</persName> <placeName type="receiving_place" xml:id="placeName_c370cbd4-069c-40ea-b5cf-b6cb5d8c889f"> <settlement key="STM0100126">London</settlement> <country>Großbritannien</country> </placeName></correspAction> </correspDesc> <langUsage> <language ident="en">englisch</language> </langUsage> </profileDesc> <revisionDesc status="draft">  </revisionDesc> </teiHeader> <text type="letter"> <body> <div type="address" xml:id="div_d3b1ba89-3a3e-4a38-894b-35864a498b89"> <head> <address> <addrLine>J. Alfred Novello</addrLine> <addrLine>Esqure</addrLine> <addrLine>London</addrLine> <addrLine>69 Dean S<hi rend="superscript">t</hi> Soho.</addrLine> </address> </head> </div> <div n="1" type="act_of_writing" xml:id="div_c3c0ad3b-d82d-470d-a548-22938f02d73d"><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><dateline rend="right">Leipzig <date cert="high" when="1837-12-19" xml:id="date_6dce648b-301a-433d-811d-3eeb9a8d6aee">December 19</date>.</dateline><salute rend="left">My dear Sir</salute><p style="paragraph_without_indent">although I wrote to <persName xml:id="persName_f836c1fd-e11a-4532-b69a-ede0e9f23853">Mrs. Anderson<name key="PSN0109481" style="hidden">Anderson, Lucy (1790-1878)</name></persName> last week about <title xml:id="title_6f1b2a43-fb3a-4b36-a82a-513ab078e452">my Concert[o]<list style="hidden" type="fmb_works_directory" xml:id="title_1dlkvw7z-yviu-fd9r-qrfl-eithfb5xcc7h"> <item n="1" sortKey="musical_works" style="hidden"></item> <item n="2" sortKey="instrumental_music" style="hidden"></item> <item n="3" sortKey="orchestral_music" style="hidden"></item> <item n="4" sortKey="concerts_and_concertante_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="PRC0100353" style="hidden">Konzert Nr. 2 d-Moll für Klavier und Orchester bzw. Streichorchester, [Mai 1837] bis 5. August 1837<idno type="MWV">O 11</idno><idno type="op">40</idno></name></title> &amp; asked her to communicate to you the content of my letter, I hasten to repeat the same in answer to your letter, received [yes]terday, as I am really very sorry for the delay, which I am qui[te at a] loss how to account for. Indeed I cannot think it my […] a parcel sent by a house as <persName xml:id="persName_6d6d1834-cf0e-4b10-bf80-f7c24c9631eb">Breitkopf &amp; Härtel<name key="PSN0110112" style="hidden">Breitkopf &amp; Härtel (bis 1786: Breitkopf), Verlag und Musikalienhandlung in Leipzig</name></persName> seems as saf[ely] or more so as if sent direct. They wrote me last week, that their parcel, in which <title xml:id="title_38134d57-fd74-4302-b5ae-c73d58089562">my Concerto<list style="hidden" type="fmb_works_directory" xml:id="title_qj6rkykt-amd4-uizb-cler-8k481iat3c89"> <item n="1" sortKey="musical_works" style="hidden"></item> <item n="2" sortKey="instrumental_music" style="hidden"></item> <item n="3" sortKey="orchestral_music" style="hidden"></item> <item n="4" sortKey="concerts_and_concertante_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="PRC0100353" style="hidden">Konzert Nr. 2 d-Moll für Klavier und Orchester bzw. Streichorchester, [Mai 1837] bis 5. August 1837<idno type="MWV">O 11</idno><idno type="op">40</idno></name></title> was contained, had left Leipzig in the second week of November, that it was directed to Mess. <persName xml:id="persName_3437fe01-1101-49db-a8a6-384376557990">Cocks &amp; Co.<name key="PSN0110431" style="hidden">R. Cocks &amp; Co., Musikverlag in London</name></persName>, musicsellers, &amp; that it must […] have been in London long ago. It was my <title xml:id="title_f3c9a7dd-26d5-411b-bba5-b1162344f355">M. S. of the P[ia]noforte part<list style="hidden" type="fmb_works_directory" xml:id="title_nmukdbhc-4hbk-wrty-jf5x-hqajuyyyubna"> <item n="1" sortKey="musical_works" style="hidden"></item> <item n="2" sortKey="instrumental_music" style="hidden"></item> <item n="3" sortKey="orchestral_music" style="hidden"></item> <item n="4" sortKey="concerts_and_concertante_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="PRC0100353" style="hidden">Konzert Nr. 2 d-Moll für Klavier und Orchester bzw. Streichorchester, [Mai 1837] bis 5. August 1837<idno type="MWV">O 11</idno><idno type="op">40</idno></name></title>, the String-Instr. arranged so as to play the whole without the wind-instr., &amp; a list of the different alterations […] parts of the score copied out, &amp; a letter. Indeed if it […] for the list of alterations, which was very troublesome […] out, I should have sent already a second copy of all […] if it is not arrived when you receive this letter […] of post &amp; I shall send it immediately. I [am] extremely sorry if your arrangement with <persName xml:id="persName_80ab71f0-6f52-4e88-93d1-c7f5ba04053a">Mrs. Anderson<name key="PSN0109481" style="hidden">Anderson, Lucy (1790-1878)</name></persName> should be frustrated, as you say in your letter; indeed she wrote me some words which made me afraid of it. Should it be the case that she should decline it for want of time to practise, I am sure you could make a similar arrangement with <persName xml:id="persName_24204d0a-4e71-4c38-a5d8-985d1bc02354">Mme. Dulcken<name key="PSN0110768" style="hidden">Dulcken, Marie Louise (1811-1850)</name></persName>, who seems very anxious to play this <title xml:id="title_3f83cbb6-cca4-494c-a77c-10cbb0ef4efa">Concerto<list style="hidden" type="fmb_works_directory" xml:id="title_zafjhg0v-qdmc-pqyz-x4me-07vqfefdd7w5"> <item n="1" sortKey="musical_works" style="hidden"></item> <item n="2" sortKey="instrumental_music" style="hidden"></item> <item n="3" sortKey="orchestral_music" style="hidden"></item> <item n="4" sortKey="concerts_and_concertante_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="PRC0100353" style="hidden">Konzert Nr. 2 d-Moll für Klavier und Orchester bzw. Streichorchester, [Mai 1837] bis 5. August 1837<idno type="MWV">O 11</idno><idno type="op">40</idno></name></title>, &amp; who played <title xml:id="title_9905f42a-6654-4ec3-8bd4-a2a2b02e1078">the fo[rmer] one<list style="hidden" type="fmb_works_directory" xml:id="title_sfkmzzo3-ffpd-5idz-ewxy-uor6cmeqycvp"> <item n="1" sortKey="musical_works" style="hidden"></item> <item n="2" sortKey="instrumental_music" style="hidden"></item> <item n="3" sortKey="orchestral_music" style="hidden"></item> <item n="4" sortKey="concerts_and_concertante_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="PRC0100349" style="hidden">Konzert Nr. 1 g-Moll für Klavier und Orchester bzw. Streichorchester, [November 1830 bis Oktober 1831]<idno type="MWV">O 7</idno><idno type="op">25</idno></name></title> so very well, as I am told. She would be certainly glad to [do] it, if <persName xml:id="persName_1e3a8f68-0ff3-4ae9-9567-a3d99c0b3aff">Mrs. Anderson<name key="PSN0109481" style="hidden">Anderson, Lucy (1790-1878)</name></persName> refuses it – but this of course „entre nous“. </p><p>[…] and by the bye, – my friends tell me they read in the Examiner, some parts of the letter I wrote to you about <persName xml:id="persName_d36996bd-c75f-4908-a9d6-86a05884b172">Clara’s<name key="PSN0113621" style="hidden">Novello, Clara Anastasia (1818-1908)</name></persName> great success; o God, I am not a fit person to write English letters for an English public – &amp; pray why do you allow them to do so &amp; to publish my non-sense about the pine-apples? This is certainly […] to the purpose; &amp; sorry as I was when I saw my name in [the] controversies during my last stay in England, I am the more so when I hear of letters quoted in the Examiner &amp; of all this kind of publicity […] always hated &amp; deprecated in a musical man.</p><p>[…] do not receive <title xml:id="title_46e31929-6abb-45d2-ad78-c852f876d427">my 3 Choral Pieces<list style="hidden" type="fmb_works_directory" xml:id="title_dgrmxgb1-jkur-zi5r-dclo-ifcsucgpxbfi"> <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="PRC0100134" style="hidden">»Veni Domine« / »Herr, erhöre uns« für Frauenchor und Orgel, 31. Dezember 1830<idno type="MWV">B 24</idno><idno type="op">39/1</idno></name><list style="hidden" type="fmb_works_directory" xml:id="title_1gwuycy0-rzdk-o1xu-2p8z-fwrlneujibh7"> <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="PRC0100139" style="hidden">»Laudate pueri Dominum« / »Ihr Kinder Israel« für Solostimmen, Frauenchor und Orgel, 14. August 1837<idno type="MWV">B 30</idno><idno type="op">39/2</idno></name><list style="hidden" type="fmb_works_directory" xml:id="title_02pkgat5-x7fi-tiii-ag8s-wdivgatmywfg"> <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="PRC0100133" style="hidden">»Surrexit pastor« / »Er ist ein guter Hirte« für Solostimmen, Frauenchor und Orgel, 30. Dezember 1830<idno type="MWV">B 23</idno><idno type="op">39/3</idno></name><list style="hidden" type="fmb_works_directory" xml:id="title_mncurxtk-8fuj-dmru-gsmh-7y2yo92fqh0x"> <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="PRC0100633" style="hidden">Drei Motetten für Frauenstimmen und Orgel, 1838; enthält MWV B 24, B 30 und B 23<idno type="MWV">SD 17</idno><idno type="op">39</idno></name></title> neither, I do not know […]te befalls my music. I directed <persName xml:id="persName_cc78d3bf-c51a-49cb-9ab8-a652ecba9b22">Simrock<name key="PSN0114935" style="hidden">N. Simrock, Musikverlag in Bonn</name></persName> to send them to [you mo]re than <hi rend="underline">4 months</hi> ago; I repeated the injunction when [I was in Lo]ndon in September, he wrote me about 2 months ago […] send <title xml:id="title_e8e69013-c48c-4088-8677-520f202b00db">them<list style="hidden" type="fmb_works_directory" xml:id="title_o3njnqcz-fo04-nl3x-0zhw-e8zvkqvlxecy"> <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="PRC0100134" style="hidden">»Veni Domine« / »Herr, erhöre uns« für Frauenchor und Orgel, 31. Dezember 1830<idno type="MWV">B 24</idno><idno type="op">39/1</idno></name><list style="hidden" type="fmb_works_directory" xml:id="title_exa5euhd-vaja-2idm-1taz-9xlgwl98fqna"> <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="PRC0100139" style="hidden">»Laudate pueri Dominum« / »Ihr Kinder Israel« für Solostimmen, Frauenchor und Orgel, 14. August 1837<idno type="MWV">B 30</idno><idno type="op">39/2</idno></name><list style="hidden" type="fmb_works_directory" xml:id="title_gua9bpar-gb8b-1xzz-gcre-qw0zlj0gotdo"> <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="PRC0100133" style="hidden">»Surrexit pastor« / »Er ist ein guter Hirte« für Solostimmen, Frauenchor und Orgel, 30. Dezember 1830<idno type="MWV">B 23</idno><idno type="op">39/3</idno></name><list style="hidden" type="fmb_works_directory" xml:id="title_3dlwhhko-eafb-amip-9uau-iqxrsodwftf3"> <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="PRC0100633" style="hidden">Drei Motetten für Frauenstimmen und Orgel, 1838; enthält MWV B 24, B 30 und B 23<idno type="MWV">SD 17</idno><idno type="op">39</idno></name></title> by next post – if you have no[…] at a loss &amp; innocent. He has not publis[hed …] I &amp; write him once more to-day to enquire after their fate.</p><p><persName xml:id="persName_b08d42c0-4a31-4c27-bd33-e673e9053512">Your mother<name key="PSN0113625" style="hidden">Novello, Mary Sabilla (1787-1854)</name></persName> &amp; <persName xml:id="persName_01d728ff-545f-4132-aec4-469ad7bc631e">sister<name key="PSN0113621" style="hidden">Novello, Clara Anastasia (1818-1908)</name></persName> went to Weimar some days ago, where <persName xml:id="persName_0c878440-4697-4db0-b1f9-6853d7f2e239">Clara<name key="PSN0113621" style="hidden">Novello, Clara Anastasia (1818-1908)</name></persName> was to sing at Court; they proposed going to Rudolstadt where there is another Court &amp; perhaps to Coburg where there is also a great unknown, viz: Court. (viz. <hi rend="underline">not</hi> for the Examiner or any paper but this sheet.) &amp; we hope to see them again for the <placeName xml:id="placeName_3f196b02-5148-4f4a-bc1e-cfb2d84305db">Concert<name key="NST0100117" style="hidden" subtype="" type="institution">Gewandhaus</name><settlement key="STM0100116" style="hidden" type="">Leipzig</settlement><country style="hidden">Deutschland</country></placeName> on the 1<hi rend="superscript">st</hi> Jan. When I see the <persName xml:id="persName_145421b9-4bc4-4151-933c-a646aa343304">family<name key="PSN0113620" style="hidden">Novello, Familie von → Vincent N.</name></persName>, I shall communicate to them the receipt of your letter &amp; [yo]ur messages. My best regards to <persName xml:id="persName_dd00b0e3-1bdd-4db6-9d04-57d643fb371b">Mr.<name key="PSN0110401" style="hidden">Clarke, Charles Cowden (1787-1877)</name></persName> &amp; <persName xml:id="persName_70d328fb-b79c-4ea8-896f-302c17fa5aab">Mrs. Clarke<name key="PSN0110402" style="hidden">Clarke, Mary Victoria Cowden (1809-1898)</name></persName> &amp; <seg type="closer" xml:id="seg_13106621-e07c-4fa5-84ed-55f065670e41">believe [me] very truly yours</seg></p><signed rend="right">Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.</signed></div></body> </text></TEI>