MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY, Felix (1809-1847). Manuscript musical score signed (‘Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’) for the fugue in E minor MWV U 66 from the Six Preludes and Fugues, Op.35, with a few minor corrections in autograph, and inscribed ‘To W[illiam] Horsley with the author’s best wishes’, n.p. [London], n.d. [before 10 February 1830]. Three pages, 265 x 365mm, bifolium. [ And: ] Ouverture zum Märchen von der schönen Melusine , Leipzig: 1836, the arrangement for piano duet. Printed edition with Mendelssohn’s pencil presentation signed (with initials, ‘FMB’) to Mary and Sophy Horsley, Leipzig, 21 January 1836. 265 x 331mm. Gilt-stamped calf binding embossed ‘Melusine / Mendelssohn’. Provenance : Presented to the Horsley family by Mendelssohn, thence by descent. Mendelssohn and the Horsley family: a lost manuscript . The existence of this manuscript has long been known to scholars from a letter by Mendelssohn to his friend Karl Klingemann from Berlin on 10 February 1830 in which he said that he was sending 'two copies of my E minor fugue for [Charles] Neate and Horsley'. The manuscript itself however was until now untraced and constitutes a new source for this famous work. The edition of the Melusine overture is one of three copies inscribed by Mendelssohn to close friends, all London-based, on the same day: the other two were for Karl Klingemann (now in Berlin, Staatsbibliothek) and Charlotte Moscheles (British Library). Mendelssohn first made the acquaintance of the organist and composer William Horsley (1774-1858) during his visit to England in 1829, becoming a close friend of the family as well as a great admirer of William’s daughter Sophy. The appreciation was mutual and the family evidently very much enjoyed having the talented young musician in their midst. In 1833, the teenage Sophy wrote to her aunt ‘Mendelssohn took my album with him the night of our glee-party, but you have no idea how many names he has got me’, a reference to the extraordinary album amicorum she would compile with his help, in which she gathered contributions from Bellini, Brahms, Chopin, Dickens, Edwin Landseer Liszt, Paganini, Clara Schumann, and many more. We are grateful to Dr Ralf Wehner for his help in the preparation of this note.
MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY, Felix (1809-1847). Manuscript musical score signed (‘Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’) for the fugue in E minor MWV U 66 from the Six Preludes and Fugues, Op.35, with a few minor corrections in autograph, and inscribed ‘To W[illiam] Horsley with the author’s best wishes’, n.p. [London], n.d. [before 10 February 1830]. Three pages, 265 x 365mm, bifolium. [ And: ] Ouverture zum Märchen von der schönen Melusine , Leipzig: 1836, the arrangement for piano duet. Printed edition with Mendelssohn’s pencil presentation signed (with initials, ‘FMB’) to Mary and Sophy Horsley, Leipzig, 21 January 1836. 265 x 331mm. Gilt-stamped calf binding embossed ‘Melusine / Mendelssohn’. Provenance : Presented to the Horsley family by Mendelssohn, thence by descent. Mendelssohn and the Horsley family: a lost manuscript . The existence of this manuscript has long been known to scholars from a letter by Mendelssohn to his friend Karl Klingemann from Berlin on 10 February 1830 in which he said that he was sending 'two copies of my E minor fugue for [Charles] Neate and Horsley'. The manuscript itself however was until now untraced and constitutes a new source for this famous work. The edition of the Melusine overture is one of three copies inscribed by Mendelssohn to close friends, all London-based, on the same day: the other two were for Karl Klingemann (now in Berlin, Staatsbibliothek) and Charlotte Moscheles (British Library). Mendelssohn first made the acquaintance of the organist and composer William Horsley (1774-1858) during his visit to England in 1829, becoming a close friend of the family as well as a great admirer of William’s daughter Sophy. The appreciation was mutual and the family evidently very much enjoyed having the talented young musician in their midst. In 1833, the teenage Sophy wrote to her aunt ‘Mendelssohn took my album with him the night of our glee-party, but you have no idea how many names he has got me’, a reference to the extraordinary album amicorum she would compile with his help, in which she gathered contributions from Bellini, Brahms, Chopin, Dickens, Edwin Landseer Liszt, Paganini, Clara Schumann, and many more. We are grateful to Dr Ralf Wehner for his help in the preparation of this note.
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