Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Felix AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED ("FELIX MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY"), TO CARL FRIEDRICH RUNGENHAGEN, DIRECTOR OF THE SING-AKADEMIE IN BERLIN ("HOCHGEEHRTER HERR MUSIKDIRECTOR"), CONCERNING A BERLIN PERFORMANCE OF PAULUS written on the day of the Berlin performance, thanking him for the favourable remarks concerning Paulus contained in his letter of 13 January, stating that it gives him the greatest pleasure that particularly this work should have enjoyed the approval of those dearest to him, namely the musicians, admitting that the oratorio demands a very careful performance, one which allows equally for light and shade, and one which hides the work's faults as well as rounding off the harmonious impression of the whole, acknowledging that his correspondent has been aiming at a similar performance, observing that with the lavish resources at his command at the Sing-Akademie in Berlin the success of the performance cannot be doubted, and apologizing that it was impossible for him to attend the performance ...Aber freilich bedarf mein Oratorium einer sehr sorgfältigen Ausführung, die Licht u. Schatten doppelt hervortreten macht, hin u. wieder Mängel verdeckt, u. des Ganzen Eindruck erst harmonisch abrundet... 1 page, 4to, Leipzig, 18 January 1838, some autograph corrections, horizontal and vertical folds
Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Felix AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED ("FELIX MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY"), TO CARL FRIEDRICH RUNGENHAGEN, DIRECTOR OF THE SING-AKADEMIE IN BERLIN ("HOCHGEEHRTER HERR MUSIKDIRECTOR"), CONCERNING A BERLIN PERFORMANCE OF PAULUS written on the day of the Berlin performance, thanking him for the favourable remarks concerning Paulus contained in his letter of 13 January, stating that it gives him the greatest pleasure that particularly this work should have enjoyed the approval of those dearest to him, namely the musicians, admitting that the oratorio demands a very careful performance, one which allows equally for light and shade, and one which hides the work's faults as well as rounding off the harmonious impression of the whole, acknowledging that his correspondent has been aiming at a similar performance, observing that with the lavish resources at his command at the Sing-Akademie in Berlin the success of the performance cannot be doubted, and apologizing that it was impossible for him to attend the performance ...Aber freilich bedarf mein Oratorium einer sehr sorgfältigen Ausführung, die Licht u. Schatten doppelt hervortreten macht, hin u. wieder Mängel verdeckt, u. des Ganzen Eindruck erst harmonisch abrundet... 1 page, 4to, Leipzig, 18 January 1838, some autograph corrections, horizontal and vertical folds
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