fmb-1838-06-26-03

            Berlin 26 June 1838My dear Sir
I hope you arrived safely & happily after your tour … your family in as good health as I did mine. And … you once more for the pleasure you gave me in coming … am only sorry I could enjoy but so little of your company … I think we passed some pleasant hours of which … think with the same pleasure, which I shall always … remember them. I hope you have not forgotten the … about your sister & Mrs. Shaw, & thanked Mrs. Clarke for the pleasure she gave me by her most amiable letter … not forgotten to look over my pocket-book & wrote to Breitkopf & Härtel about the Psalm, and all the other things You say they have written to you already & arranged … wishes, & shall send you the Parts of the Psalm … I copy you the List of my works on the next page that are Copyright in England (as far as I know … After due consideration I shall not send the … better, as we say and the Style in which … fathers request, seems still to have been a … shall rather not publish it at present. But I shall send you … promised an Andante & Rondo for PianoForte with Orchestral accompagniments, which I intend to publish in October, if you will … 20 ₤. for it. This I think will be the only thing which I … able to publish in England during this year; for the Violin -Quartets and Sonata for Piano & Violin which are to appear in … will never do for an English publisher as far as I know. Is … that Bennett is coming over again, & intends staying a time … at Leipzig? And what news of your sister? Now pray, answer … & give up your old practice of not answering at all. The … will be over by the time you receive this letter & then you must … to yours very truly
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.
P. S. … till August & perhaps still longer; at the end of Aug. however … Leipzig again          

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Psalm »Wie der Hirsch schreit« für Solostimmen, gemischten Chor, Orchester und Orgel, April bis Juli 1837; 22. Dezember 1837<idno type="MWV">A 15</idno><idno type="op">42</idno></name></title>, and all the other things [You] say they have written to you already &amp; arranged […] wishes, &amp; shall send you the Parts of the Psalm [… I] copy you the List of my works on the next [page] that are Copyright in England (as far as <hi rend="underline">I know</hi> […] After due consideration I shall not send the […] better, as we say and the Style in which […] fathers request, seems still to have been a [… s]hall rather not publish it at present. But I shall send you [… pr]omised an <title xml:id="title_d4938fb2-1780-4d13-be62-c73afb99a73c">Andante &amp; Rondo for PianoForte<list style="hidden" type="fmb_works_directory" xml:id="title_xuighqmt-eylr-z7sk-rlok-j4q1gdrcyu4g"> <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="PRC0100354" style="hidden">Serenade und Allegro giojoso h-Moll / D-Dur für Klavier und Orchester bzw. Streichorchester, [Ende März 1838] bis 1. April 1838<idno type="MWV">O 12</idno><idno type="op">43</idno></name></title> with Orchestral [accompag]niments, which I intend to publish in October, if you will […] 20 ₤. for it. 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Juni 1837<idno type="MWV">R 26</idno><idno type="op">44/2</idno></name><list style="hidden" type="fmb_works_directory" xml:id="title_ifougobl-9ypi-sz6j-kwem-0nafic7q1kzl"> <item n="1" sortKey="musical_works" style="hidden"></item> <item n="2" sortKey="instrumental_music" style="hidden"></item> <item n="3" sortKey="chamber_music" style="hidden"></item> <item n="4" sortKey="chamber_music_works_without_piano" style="hidden"></item></list><name key="PSN0000001" style="hidden" type="author">Mendelssohn Bartholdy (bis 1816: Mendelssohn), Jacob Ludwig Felix (1809-1847)</name><name key="PRC0100397" style="hidden">Quartett Es-Dur für zwei Violinen, Viola und Violoncello, [November 1837] bis 6. Februar 1838<idno type="MWV">R 28</idno><idno type="op">44/3</idno></name></title>-[Quartets an]d <title xml:id="title_fa23503f-da1a-4236-b71c-4e075e05c6b6">Sonata for Piano &amp; Violin<list style="hidden" type="fmb_works_directory" xml:id="title_v6gdsdaz-glwn-pgvf-hol8-hy8wgzoewngm"> <item n="1" sortKey="musical_works" style="hidden"></item> <item n="2" sortKey="instrumental_music" style="hidden"></item> <item n="3" sortKey="chamber_music" style="hidden"></item> <item n="4" sortKey="chamber_music_with_piano" style="hidden"></item></list><name key="PSN0000001" style="hidden" type="author">Mendelssohn Bartholdy (bis 1816: Mendelssohn), Jacob Ludwig Felix (1809-1847)</name><name key="PRC0100384" style="hidden">Sonate F-Dur für Violine und Klavier, [spätestens Januar 1838] bis 15. Juni 1838<idno type="MWV">Q 26</idno><idno type="op"></idno></name></title> which are to appear in […] will never do for an English publisher as far as I know. Is […] that <persName xml:id="persName_0facdf75-5880-49da-9f5b-e6297641528d">Bennett<name key="PSN0109864" style="hidden">Bennett, (seit 1871) Sir William Sterndale (1816-1875)</name></persName> is coming over again, &amp; intends staying a time […] at Leipzig? And what news of <persName xml:id="persName_bde4f66d-5493-47c9-b1d0-fa50fd4ae142">your sister<name key="PSN0113621" style="hidden">Novello, Clara Anastasia (1818-1908)</name></persName>? Now pray, answer […] &amp; give up your old practice of not answering at all. The […] [wi]ll be over by the time you receive this letter &amp; then you must […] to yours very truly</p><signed rend="right">Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.</signed><p style="paragraph_without_indent">[P. S. …] till August &amp; perhaps still longer; at the end of Aug. however […] Leipzig again</p></div></body></text></TEI>