Note 59 — Chapter XI · AT THE GEWANDHAUS.
Reading edition
Mendelssohn’s exact words—spoken, of course, in German—were:—
“Gentlemen!
“You think that the Kapellmeister Mendelssohn is speaking to you, but in that you are mistaken. Fräulein Jenny Lind speaks to you, and thanks you for the beautiful surprise that you have prepared for her. But now I change myself back again into the Leipzig Kapellmeister, and call upon you to wish long life to Fräulein Jenny Lind. Long life to her! and again, long life to her! and, for the third time, long life!”