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            London Novr 8th 1832 I beg to transmit you a Copy of a Resolution paper at a General Meeting of the Philharmonic Society, held on Monday Evening the 5th Instant.
“Resolved,
That Mr. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy be requested to compose a Symphony, an Overture, and a Vocal Piece for this Society, for which he be offered the sum of one hundred Guineas.
The Copyright of the said Compositions to revert to the Author after the expiration of two Years, the Society reserving to itself the privilege of performing them at all times, and with the understanding that Mr Mendelssohn Bartholdy be permitted to publish any arrangement of them, so soon as he may think fit, after their first performance at the Society’s Concerts. ”
Hoping for the pleasure of hearing from you I have the honor to subscribe myself. Your very obedt Servant. W. Watts
Secretary
45. Cirencester Place Fitzroy Square
P. S. My friend Mr Doxat informed me some time since that you had promised him to enquire for an Autograph of your progenitor the Celebrated Philosopher Mendelssohn, your recollection of which will be esteemed a particular favor – Should you have already succeeded in your endeavor, may I ask you to enclose it in your reply to the foregoing proposal from our Society.          

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Leipziger Straße</hi></addrLine> <addrLine><hi rend="latintype">Berlin</hi></addrLine> </address> </head> </div> <div n="1" type="act_of_writing" xml:id="div_55b69a3c-1ba8-4b8d-9c68-2ddae517f318"> <docAuthor key="PSN0115636" resp="author" style="hidden">Watts, William (?-1859)</docAuthor> <docAuthor key="PSN0115636" resp="writer" style="hidden">Watts, William (?-1859)</docAuthor> <dateline rend="right">London <date cert="high" when="1832-11-08" xml:id="date_320d35e2-1994-4be0-8ed8-2ec4f3a53687">Nov<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> 8<hi rend="superscript">th</hi> 1832</date></dateline> <salute rend="left">I beg to transmit you a Copy of a Resolution paper at a General Meeting of the <placeName xml:id="placeName_24ab4916-8d59-44e6-b792-0eed89a3f738">Philharmonic Society<name key="NST0100287" style="hidden" subtype="" type="institution">Philharmonic Society</name><settlement key="STM0100126" style="hidden" type="locality">London</settlement><country style="hidden">Großbritannien</country></placeName>, held on <date cert="high" when="1832-11-05">Monday Evening the 5<hi rend="superscript">th</hi> Instant</date>.</salute> <p style="paragraph_without_indent">“Resolved,</p> <p>That Mr. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy be requested to compose a Symphony,<note resp="FMBC" style="hidden" type="single_place_comment" xml:id="note_52450d9b-47ec-45b7-8420-1331fd15cca5" xml:lang="en">to compose a Symphony, an Overture, and a Vocal Piece for this Society – In seinem Brief vom 8. November 1832 (Brief gb-1832-11-08-01) übermittelte William Watts eine Kopie des am 5. November beschlossenen Auftrags der Philharmonic Society an Mendelssohn, »to compose a Symphony, an Overture, and a Vocal Piece for this Society, for which he be offered the sum of one hundred Guineas.« Die Kompositionen sollten in den Konzerten der Society uraufgeführt werden. Daraufhin führte Mendelssohn während seines dritten London-Aufenthalts im Jahr 1833 die Sinfonie A-Dur (»Italienische«), op. 90 (MWV N 16), und die zweite Fassung der Ouvertüre C-Dur (»Trompeten-Ouvertüre«), op. 101 (MWV P 2), auf. Ein Vokalstück komponierte er erst für die Saison 1834: die Arie »Infelice! Ah, ritorna, età dell’oro« MWV H 4. Gemäß der Vereinbarung sollte Mendelssohn das Copyright für die Kompositionen nach zwei Jahren wiedererhalten. Man räumte ihm aber das Recht ein, sofort nach der Uraufführung Arrangements herauszugeben (Foster, Philharmonic Society, S. 111, und Robert Elkin, Royal Philharmonic. The Annals of the Royal Philharmonic Society, London [1946], S. 36). Über die Resolution informierte Thomas Attwood bereits in seinem noch am Abend der Zusasmmenkunft der Philharmonic Society am 5. November 1832 geschriebenen Brief (gb-1832-11-05-01).</note> an Overture, and a Vocal Piece for this Society, for which he be offered the sum of one hundred Guineas. </p> <p>The Copyright of the said Compositions to revert to the Author after the expiration of two Years, the Society reserving to itself the privilege of performing them at all times, and with the<seg type="pagebreak"> |2|<pb n="2" type="pagebreak"></pb></seg> understanding that M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Mendelssohn Bartholdy be permitted to publish any arrangement of them, so soon as he may think fit, after their first performance at the Society’s Concerts.”</p> <closer rend="center">Hoping for the pleasure of hearing from you I have the honor to subscribe myself.</closer> <closer rend="right">Your very obed<hi rend="superscript">t</hi> Servant.</closer> <signed rend="right">W. 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