Felix Mendelssohn’s Autograph Letter to Jenny Lind.
Two pages autograph letter, bifolio. Signed as Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Dated in Leipzig on 25 January 1846. A few nicks, a tiny tear at folding with no effect on text, traces of mount on integral blank. Otherwise in fine condition.
Mendelssohn’s signed autograph letter to Jenny Lind, the Swedish Nightingale.
In this signed letter to the renowned Swedish soprano Jenny Lind, Mendelssohn introduces two acquaintances—Friedrich Wieck, Clara Schumann’s father, and Mr. Böhm, a singing teacher from Leipzig—who were coming to Weimar to hear Lind sing. Both sought her assistance to attend a rehearsal and a concert, believing that a word from her could make this possible.
Mendelssohn expresses regret at missing Lind during her recent visit to Leipzig and hopes she might extend her stay there, writing that it would be “the most delightful thing […] that you could do for us.” This letter does not appear in Memoir of Jenny Lind-Goldschmidt (London; New York, 1891).
Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847) and Jenny Lind (1820–1887) met in October 1844 and collaborated until his early death. Mendelssohn began an opera, Lorelei, for Lind, and tailored the aria “Hear Ye Israel” in Elijah for her, although she did not perform it until after his death.
Mendelssohn, one of the early Romantic era’s greatest musical prodigies, admired Lind, who was known as the “Swedish Nightingale” and held in high esteem by composers like Hector Berlioz and Robert Schumann.
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Price: €14,000.00