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            Leipzig August 12th 1838My dear Sir
I received the two first acts of the Opera last week & you imagine how eagerly I read them immediately. I was struck with the many beauties they contain & have to thank you most sincerly for the delightful prospect which such a poetry holds out to my music. My only wish is that I might be able to do justice to it as I feel it ought to be done. My particular favourites are Gualtiers Scena and Guillaume’s air in the 1st act, & before all the Ensemble in the 2d & the Duet which follows. I also like Guillaume’s air, which you call a sacrifice to the Galleries & the 2d Finale of course. What a brilliant occasion for the display of different passions in music they afford! I only hope you will soon send me the last act, that I may have a view of the whole & see the issue to which you intend to bring it. There are some alterations which I could wish & which I shall take the liberty to state as you kindly allow me to do so, at the end of your letter; they relate principally to the Character of Marant which I think could become perhaps more prominent & active, & would afford perhaps a kind of contrast to the great quantity of serious characters & music – & to a few parts of the 1st Act, but of all this I can only speak when I know the whole, & therefore (as well as for my anxious wish) I beg you will soon send it & allow me then to avail myself of your kindness in case I should then still wish for any alterations. I must also thank you for the beautiful verses, which are so truly musical that I have nothing more to wish for in this respect, & upon the whole there are so many so great beauties in this work, & I so fully appreciate them, that I anticipate the greatest delight from the composition & wish I might soon be able to begin it.
May I request you to inform Mr. Chappell of my receipt of the 2 acts, & to ask him to send the rest by the same occasion to Berlin (Leipziger Straße no. 3) My family forward it immediately to this place.
Believe me very sincerely yoursFelix Mendelssohn Bartholdy          

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R. Planché</addrLine> <addrLine>Esqure</addrLine> <addrLine>Brompton Crescent</addrLine> <addrLine><hi n="1" rend="underline">London</hi></addrLine> </address> </head> </div> <div type="annotation" xml:id="div_afc46010-a76a-448f-91aa-c9254f0bf1ef"> <note type="other-third-party-annotation" xml:id="note_3370c2d7-084f-4dc3-9d63-1aa48392e494">Zusatz von fremder Hand auf der Adressenseite: »12<hi rend="superscript">n</hi> Augt. 1838.«</note> </div> <div n="1" type="act_of_writing" xml:id="div_503935b7-f7b8-4f68-918f-268047249323"><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 August <date cert="high" when="1838-08-12" xml:id="date_2d8301ca-cc31-4381-8688-b33b7540e165">12<hi rend="superscript">th</hi> 1838</date></dateline><salute rend="left">My dear Sir</salute><p style="paragraph_without_indent">I received the two first acts of the <title xml:id="title_4ecb5d30-1274-4d90-80bd-b3ff5b55b45b">Opera<list style="hidden" type="fmb_works_directory" xml:id="title_l2rvuai7-kypa-leiu-2vma-em5bdlqfnons"> <item n="1" sortKey="musical_works" style="hidden"></item> <item n="2" sortKey="works_not_executed" style="hidden"></item></list><name key="PSN0000001" style="hidden" type="author">Mendelssohn Bartholdy (bis 1816: Mendelssohn), Jacob Ludwig Felix (1809-1847)</name><name key="PRC0100703" style="hidden">The Brothers (auch: Edward III and the Siege of Calais / Eduard III. und die Belagerung von Calais)<idno type="MWV"></idno><idno type="op"></idno></name></title> last week &amp; you imagine how eagerly I read them immediately. I was struck with the many beauties they contain &amp; have to thank you most sincerly for the delightful prospect which such a poetry holds out to my music. My only wish is that I might be able to do justice to it as I feel it ought to be done. My particular favourites are Gualtiers Scena and Guillaume’s air in the 1<hi rend="superscript">st</hi> act, &amp; before all the Ensemble in the 2<hi rend="superscript">d</hi> &amp; the Duet which follows. I also like Guillaume’s air, which you call a sacrifice to the Galleries &amp; the 2<hi rend="superscript">d</hi> Finale of course. What a brilliant occasion for the display of different passions in music they afford! I only hope you will soon send me the last act, that I may have a view of the whole &amp; see the issue to which you intend to bring it. There are some alterations which I could wish &amp; which I shall take the liberty to state as you kindly allow me to do so, at the end of your letter; they relate principally to the Character of Marant which I think could become perhaps more prominent &amp; active, &amp; would afford perhaps a kind of contrast to the great quantity of serious characters &amp; music – &amp; to a few parts of the 1<hi rend="superscript">st</hi> Act, but of all this I can only speak when I know the whole, &amp; therefore (as well as for my anxious wish) I beg you will soon send it &amp; allow me then to avail myself of your kindness in case I should then still wish for any alterations. I must also thank you for the beautiful verses, which are so truly musical that I have nothing more to wish for in this respect, &amp; upon the whole there are so many so great beauties in this work, &amp; I so fully appreciate them, that I anticipate the greatest delight from the composition &amp; wish I might soon be able to begin it.</p><p>May I request you to inform <persName xml:id="persName_d5b7a79c-b0e4-49c4-bd68-35aa723418e9">Mr. Chappell<name key="PSN0110351" style="hidden">Chappell, William (1809-1888)</name></persName> of my receipt of the 2 acts, &amp; to ask him to send the rest by <hi rend="underline">the same occasion to Berlin</hi> (<placeName xml:id="placeName_15a6c07b-c331-41a8-9ba4-e3c76658efb3">Leipziger Straße no. 3)<name key="NST0100322" style="hidden" subtype="" type="institution">Leipziger Straße Nr. 3</name><settlement key="STM0100101" style="hidden" type="">Berlin</settlement><country style="hidden">Deutschland</country></placeName> My family forward it immediately to this place.</p><closer rend="left" xml:id="closer_25514956-00a0-4a1f-afca-2efb84e2a78b">Believe me very sincerely yours</closer><signed rend="right">Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy</signed></div></body> </text></TEI>