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            Gravel Pits – 29/10 – 33 My Dear Mendelssohn
You did not perform your promise of writing to me from Berlin, therefore I inflict on you, by the hands of our friend Klingemann, the penance of reading a dull note.
It gave us sincere pleasure to hear that, after so much difficulty & anxiety, you had restored your Father, in good health, to his family. We were also most pleasantly surprised to learn, that he regards Old England with a more favourable disposition than he at first entertained. Indeed Mr Klingemann, who is our authority in this matter, seems to be of opinion that your excellent parent may pay us another visit: it is unnecessary for me to say with what pleasure he would be received at the Gravel Pits.
You are well aware, that, at this season, I can have no musical news to send – all now sleepeth. Moscheles, I hear, is completing the arrangement of his, which you began, & the Duett (on Weber’s March) which you & he played together in the spring. Mrs H, & our girls, seem to expect the latter with much impatience – not with standing all the wry faces which you are reported to have made whenever it was mentioned. Potter told me, a few weeks ago, that he had a Symphony in hand; and this is all I know of the operations of my professional bretheren. I am engaged in Scoring a motett, in five parts, with accompaniments for a full Orchestra, which I have lately sketched out. With me, however, the business proceeds very slowly. There are only two days in the week on which I can work at it; and those days are frequently broken in upon – sometimes quite occupied – by avocations of a far different description. How fortunate it is for me, that age – love of my family – and “sage experience”, have abated much of that “vaulting ambition” which I once felt!
Among the most important intelligence which I have to send, is the establishment of a weekly Concert in this House. Mary, Fanny, Sophy, and Charles are at once Undertakers, Managers, Conductors, Performers, Critics and Reporters. The Audience will be most select – being limited to Mrs H & myself; but I shall have few opportunities of enjoying my privilege.
Now – after this – you must see the absolute necessity you are under, of being on the qui vive at Dusseldorf.
So, wishing you all success – and with kind remembrances from all here – I remain, My Dear Mendelsshon, very faithfully Yours Wm Horsley          

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Anfang Juli 1833 am Schienbein verletzt. Da sich die Wunde Mitte Juli stark entzündete, musste er ständig sitzen oder liegen und sich in ärztliche Behandlung begeben. Die für den 21. Juli 1833 geplante Rückreise nach Deutschland verzögerte sich. Anfang September 1833, während des Zwischen-Aufenthalts in Horchheim auf dem Weingut von Joseph und Henriette (Hinni) Mendelssohn, trat sich Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy dann einen Nagel in den rechten Fuß. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy begleitete seinen Vater nach Berlin, sie trafen dort am 12. September 1833 ein.</note> We were also most pleasantly surprised to learn, that he regards Old England with a more favourable<seg type="pagebreak"> |2| <pb n="2" type="pagebreak"></pb></seg>disposition than he at first entertained. Indeed Mr Klingemann, who is our authority in this matter, seems to be of opinion that your excellent parent may pay us another visit: it is unnecessary for me to say with what pleasure he would be received at the Gravel Pits.<note resp="FMBC" style="hidden" type="word_description" xml:id="note_673af42b-8d75-4133-bcf0-fd11871c2c1b" xml:lang="en">the Gravel Pits – Adresse der Familie Horsley in Kensington.</note></p> <p>You are well aware, that, at this season, I can have no musical news to send – all now sleepeth.<note resp="FMBC" style="hidden" type="word_description" xml:id="note_ba2a57d4-0b13-4b43-b422-e535308ff4ad" xml:lang="en">sleepeth – engl., eingeschlafen; von sleep, schlafen.</note> <persName xml:id="persName_ab86dc7e-7fad-4237-8b59-720524339930">Moscheles<name key="PSN0113441" style="hidden" type="person">Moscheles, Ignaz (Isack) (1794-1870)</name></persName>, I hear, is completing <title xml:id="title_04b9e90b-d23b-4e6e-81f9-1694da3e1314">the arrangement<list style="hidden" type="fmb_works_directory" xml:id="title_vj7tf5hd-2kqs-2lhg-5njw-cfldbjbw9yst"> <item n="1" sortKey="musical_works" style="hidden"></item> <item n="2" sortKey="appendices" style="hidden"></item> <item n="3" sortKey="appendix_B:_foreign_works" style="hidden"></item> <item n="4" sortKey="a)_arrangements_and_performance_devices" style="hidden"></item></list><name key="PSN0000001" style="hidden" type="author">Mendelssohn Bartholdy (bis 1816: Mendelssohn), Jacob Ludwig Felix (1809-1847)</name><name key="PRC0100994" style="hidden">Ignaz Moscheles, Septett op. 88, Arrangement für Klavier zu vier Händen, 1833<idno type="MWV">Anh. 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Die autographe Partitur von Mendelssohns Arrangement von Moscheles’ 1832 entstandenem Grand Septuor D-Dur für Klavier, Violine, Viola, Klarinette, Horn, Violoncello und Kontrabass, op. 88, für Klavier zu vier Händen MWV Anh. B-a datiert vom August 1833 (heutiger Standort: D-B, Musikabteilung, MA Ms. 9; vgl. 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I am engaged in Scoring a <title xml:id="title_e87f1bac-5f31-4d19-be9c-16ea91f37af4">motett<name key="PSN0112109" style="hidden" type="author">Horsley, William (1774–1858)</name><name key="CRT0109372" style="hidden" type="music">Exaltabo te, Deus</name></title>, in five parts, with accompaniments for a full Orchestra,<note resp="FMBC" style="hidden" type="single_place_comment" xml:id="note_eb79d53c-3094-444f-9e8a-446a0f6ddbf3" xml:lang="en">a motett, in five parts, with accompaniments for a full Orchestra – die für die Philharmonic Society in London komponierte Motette Exaltabo te, Deus, deren Uraufführung am 7. April 1834 im dritten Konzert der Society erfolgte (Foster, Philharmonic Society, S. 126); Standort des Kompositionsautographs: GB-Lbl, RPS MS 76; Standort der der Philharmonic Society geschenkten Partitur: GB-Lbl, Loan 4.277 (vgl. Fiona M. 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How fortunate it is for me, that age – love of my<seg type="pagebreak"> |4| <pb n="4" type="pagebreak"></pb></seg>family – and “sage experience”, have abated much of that “vaulting ambition” which I once felt!</p> <p>Among the most important intelligence which I have to send<supplied reason="uncertain_reading" resp="UW"></supplied>, is the establishment of a week<add place="below">ly<name key="PSN0112109" resp="writers_hand" style="hidden">Horsley, William (1774–1858)</name></add> Concert in this House. <persName xml:id="persName_99120d6a-9c65-4290-afe7-5edc27516db5">Mary<name key="PSN0112107" style="hidden" type="person">Horsley, Mary Elizabeth (1813-1881)</name></persName>, <persName xml:id="persName_c3343c1e-02fc-4d92-b8dd-9e22ab04425f">Fanny<name key="PSN0112105" style="hidden" type="person">Horsley, Frances Arabella (Fanny) → Thompson (1815-1849)</name></persName>, <persName xml:id="persName_ff511592-3451-4156-9be6-66d36fa28457">Sophy<name key="PSN0112108" style="hidden" type="person">Horsley, Sophia Hutchins (Sophy) (1819-1894)</name></persName>, and <persName xml:id="persName_99fde926-f8f7-4e47-a394-f9d60bc0525f">Charles<name key="PSN0112102" style="hidden" type="person">Horsley, Charles Edward (1822-1876)</name></persName> are at once Undertakers, Managers, Conductors, Performers, Critics and Reporters. The Audience will be most select – being limited to <persName xml:id="persName_84de81e0-07ac-4893-bcc5-ed5ef4a6e8d6">Mrs H<name key="PSN0112103" style="hidden" type="person">Horsley, Elizabeth Hutchins (1793-1875)</name></persName> &amp; myself; but I shall have few opportunities of enjoying my privilege.</p> <p>Now – after this – you must see the absolute necessity you are under, of being on the qui vive<note resp="FMBC" style="hidden" type="word_description" xml:id="note_7dfda5b6-1bef-4bbe-a6d9-816ea48ce183" xml:lang="fr ">qui vive – frz., sehr wachsam bleiben.</note> at Dusseldorf.</p> <closer rend="left">So, wishing you all success – and with kind remembrances from all here – I remain, My Dear <choice resp="editor" source="autograph_edition_template" xml:id="choice_bdde46d6-6896-4b61-86cd-5be8853fec65"> <sic resp="writer">Mendelsshon</sic> <corr resp="editor">Mendelssohn</corr> </choice>,</closer> <closer rend="left">very faithfully Yours</closer> <signed rend="right">W<hi rend="superscript">m</hi> Horsley</signed> </div> </body> </text></TEI>