Yale University Library: Exhibits at the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library

A Renaissance Man Among the Romantics: Felix Mendelssohn at 200.

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Engraved portrait of Mendelssohn, by A.H. Payne and W.C. Wrankmore, after Hildebrand.	Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel,"Das Heimweh" from Zwoelf Gesaenge, Op. 8 (Berlin: Schlesinger [between 1825 and 1827]), p. 1-2.


Engraved portrait of Carl Friedrich Zelter, by C.J. Lilienfeld	Die erste Walpurgisnacht, manuscript sketch, 1831?, p. 1.	Die erste Walpurgisnacht, manuscript sketch, 1831?, p. 2.	Die erste Walpurgisnacht, manuscript sketch, 1831?, p. 3.





“Lied ohne Worte” Op. 19. No. 2 Manuscript, 1830, p. 1 recto.	“Lied ohne Worte” Op. 19. No. 2 Manuscript, 1830, p. 1 verso.	“Lied ohne Worte” Op. 19. No. 2 Manuscript, 1830, p. 2 recto.	“Lied ohne Worte” Op. 19. No. 2 Manuscript, 1830, p. 2 verso.

Letter to Carl Klingemann June 23, 1834, p. 1.	Letter to Carl Klingemann June 23, 1834, p. 2.	Ich wollt' meine Lieb Op. 63, No. 1 Manuscript, 1836, p. 1.	Ich wollt' meine Lieb Op. 63, No. 1 Manuscript, 1836, p. 2.






Letter to Leopold Lindenau September 27, 1835, p. 1.	Letter to Leopold Lindenau September 27, 1835, p. 2.	St. Paul (Bonn: N. Simrock; London: I. A. Novello, [1837])	String Quartets Op. 44 (Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, [1838])
Symphony No. 3 (“Scottish”) Op. 56, Arranged for piano, 4 hands (Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, [1843])	Letter to the Mayor of Aachen, Privy Counselor Emundts February 5, 1846, Letter Address	Letter to the Mayor of Aachen, Privy Counselor Emundts February 5, 1846, p. 1.	Letter to the Mayor of Aachen, Privy Counselor Emundts February 5, 1846, p. 2.


A Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture and Incidental Music, Op. 61, Arranged for piano (Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [1845])	Letter to Eduard Lannoy February 14, 1846, p. 1.	Letter to Eduard Lannoy February 14, 1846, p. 2.	Elijah (Bonn, N. Simrock; London, Ewer & Co. [1847?])
Mendelssohn Society of New Haven Program for inaugural concert, March 31, 1859	Beethoven Society of Hartford Program for performance of Elijah December 2, [1863]	Elise Polko Reminiscences of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: A Social and Artistic Biography. Translated by Lady Wallace (New York: Leypoldt and Holt, 1869)	Sebastian Hensel. Die Familie Mendelssohn, 1729-1847 nach Briefen und Tagebüchern 2nd edition (Berlin: B. Behr, 1880)



Elijah (Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel; rpt., Farnborough : Gregg Press, 1967) With manuscript annotations by Robert Shaw

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