Note 3 — LETTERS OF FELIX MENDELSSOHN.
Felix Moscheles translation
The work alluded to was the Operetta, “The Son and Stranger,” in which every member of the family wished to take part. The painter Hensel, who had married Mendelssohn’s eldest sister, being totally unmusical, had the part of one and the same note composed for him, which even then he was not able to catch.