Auf einer Gondel
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Type of record: Book
Title: Auf einer Gondel
Other titles: Lieder ohne Worte
Classmark: Manuscripts BC MS Mendelssohn/Scores 3
Creator(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix (1809-1847)
Publication city: [Sorrento?]
Date(s): 1831
Size and medium: 1 manuscript score ([1] p. on 1 leaf, unbound)
Manifest: https://iiif.library.leeds.ac.uk/presentation/cc/zr1xwfmk
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/375701
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002712409705181
Description
Caption title.
Autograph manuscript of one of the 'Songs without words'. On one side of the leaf only, in landscape format. Signed by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, with inscription: "aufgeschrieben Abends Sorrento den 1sten Juny 1831". Above inscription, the initials "W.B."
From the library of Lord Brotherton.
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Thematisch-systematisches Verzeichnis der musikalischen Werke (MWV). Studien-Ausgabe von Ralf Wehner (Wiesbaden, 2009), U 78.
Indexed in: Ralf Wehner: '"There is probably no better living authority on Mendelssohn's autograph": W.T. Freemantle und seine Mendelssohn-Sammlung', Mendelssohn Studien, 16 (2009), pp. 333-69,
Additional description
Held in envelope
Provenance
Former owner: W.T. Freemantle. Purchased at auction (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge) in March 1905 from Dr Otto Devrient of Jena.
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