LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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1. Mendelssohn’s Study. From a Water-Color Drawing made by Felix Moscheles a few days after the composer’s deathFrontispiece

2. Ignaz Moscheles. From a Fainting by Felix Moscheles1

3. Mendelssohn’s Congratulations to Moscheles on the Latter’s Birthday20

4. Fac-simile of Mendelssohn’s Dedication to Moscheles upon the Fly-leaf of Beethoven’s Musical Sketch-Book49

5. Fac-simile of the Drawing in Mendelssohn’s Letter of Feb. 27, 183355

6. The well-known “Cradle Song,” composed for his Godson. The words are by Klingemann62

7. First Page of the Original Draft of Mendelssohn’s “Melodies” (Songs without Words). The original in the possession of Felix Moscheles64

8. Fac-simile of Assignment to Mr. Novello67

9. Fac-simile of Note from the Zoölogical Gardens71

10. Fac-simile of Humorous Note, “At the Residence”75

11. Fac-simile of Card of Invitation filled in by Mendelssohn79

12. First Page of the Original Score of Mendelssohn’s Overture to the “Isles of Fingal,” given by him to Moscheles. On perusing it fifty years later, Gounod made the note appended83

13. The House in which the Moscheleses lived, No. 3 Chester Place, Regent’s Park. Mr. Moscheles is supposed to be looking out of the window of his dressing-room. From a Sketch made by Mendelssohn in an autograph album given by him to his godchild90

14. Regent’s Park, near the Moscheles House. From a Sketch made by Mendelssohn in an autograph album presented by him to his godchild94

15. “Mailied,” in Letter of May 15, 1834, to Mrs. Moscheles (Fac-simile)105

16. The Bridge of Sighs. From a Water-Color Drawing by Mendelssohn122

17. On March 20, 1836, the University of Leipzig presented Mendelssohn with the diploma which we reproduce. It is worded, “Ob insignia in artem musicam merita,”—“In recognition of his signal services to the art of music”146

18. “Im Kahn” (words by H. Heine), on last page of Letter, Dec. 12, 1837 (Fac-simile)161

19. Fac-simile from Letter of Feb. 27, 1839183

20. “Des Hirten Winterlied.” In Letter of Nov. 18, 1840, to Mrs. Moscheles199

21. Birmingham. From a Pen and Ink Drawing by Mendelssohn208

22. Fac-simile of an Album Sketch by Mendelssohn211

23. Mendelssohn left England with Moscheles and Chorley, on the 3d of October. The Sketch is taken from a joint letter which they wrote on their arrival at Ostend. “Bid me not speak, bid me be mute.”—Goethe. “There are moments in the life of man.”—Schiller. “Here the ship gave a lurch, and he grew seasick.”—Byron. “However, we are all three sitting comfortably round the fire in Moscheles’s room, and our thoughts are with you. F. M. B.”215

24.Although, or perhaps because, he had no “special duties” to perform as “Kapellmeister” in Berlin, the time he spent there was productive of great work. Amongst other things he composed the music to Sophocles’s Antigone, in the surprisingly short time of eleven days. It was performed on the 28th of October, 1841, at the King’s Palace in Potsdam, a select audience being invited on that occasion. In the Sketch taken from Mrs. Moscheles’s album, Mendelssohn gives the stage arrangements, as made for the performance at the Berlin theatre:—

a b.Curtain and line of Proscenium.

c d.Scene representing Palace.

x.Altar to Bacchus.

a e b.Orchestra 5’ above the floor.

a b.5’ above the orchestra.

f g, h i. Steps leading to the stage.

k l, m n. Steps leading to the orchestra.

y z.The usual limit between the orchestra and the first row of stalls.

y o p z.Space for the instrumentalists.

“This, however, is not from ‘Antigone,’ but in remembrance of many a happy gathering, of all the happy days of last spring, and of “Yours gratefully, F. M. B.”222

25. Fac-simile from a Letter written in July, 1842225

26. Mendelssohn. From the Bust modelled by Professor Rietschel228

27. Fac-simile of a Second Page of Congratulations to Moscheles, drawn May 30, 1844. (See also Illustration No. 4)244

28. Fac-simile of Drawing.—Incidents of a Concert at Frankfurt249

29. From a Cast of Mendelssohn’s Hand266

30. Medallion modelled by Knauer, of Leipzig, shortly after Mendelssohn’s death, and presented by him to the Directors of the Gewandhaus. It was placed in the concert-room at the back of the orchestra. We are indebted to Messrs. Novello for the reduced copy of the medallion276

2. IGNAZ MOSCHELES

FROM A PAINTING BY FELIX MOSCHELES