Note 10 — XVII ITALY A Wild Interlude
Katharine F. Boult translation
Mendelssohn’s letter of 29th March 1831 gives a very severe description of Berlioz, under the initial “Y,” showing how utterly out of sympathy the two young men were, and how incapable at that time Mendelssohn was of reciprocating Berlioz’s whole-hearted appreciation.
Later on, when they met in Leipzig, the situation improved.