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Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

Lot 51
11.12.2024 00:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 51 | Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
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£ 20 000 – 30 000
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Autograph manuscript of six songs for mixed voices a cappella, 'Sechs vierstimmige Lieder im Freyen zu-singen' (Six four-part songs to be sung outdoors), Leipzig, 3-5 March 1843
Title and 9¼ pages, 296 x 222mm, in systems of four staves, initially a fair copy but with frequent cancellations and emendations throughout, additional stanzas copied after the music of the 1st, 3rd and 4th songs, dated in pencil (overwritten in ink by another hand) at the end of the 3rd, 5th and 6th songs; in a gathering, stitched. In a modern blue leather portfolio. Provenance: Heinrich Conrad Schleinitz (1805-1881, lawyer, close friend of Mendelssohn, board member of the Leipzig Gewandhaus: Mendelssohn's presentation inscription on title), by whom presented on 8 April 1855 'through Frau Livia Frege' (1818-1891, opera singer at the Leipzig Stadtheater and friend of Mendelssohn and Robert and Clara Schumann) to: Carl Bogler (1819-1893, founder of the Wiesbaden city choir in 1847, when its first performance was a memorial service for Mendelssohn: presentation inscription by Schleinitz on title); recorded at the International Felix Mendelssohn-Gesellschaft in Basel in 1955 (deaccessioned before 1964); Hugo von Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1894-1975); Stargardt, Marburg, 10/11 June 1980, lot 818a; Antiquariat Hans Schneider, Tutzing, catalogue 250 (1981), no.11; August Bödiger auction, 4 November 1994; with Hans Schneider, March 1994.

Six choral songs intended for outdoor performance; in an attractive presentation manuscript for one of Mendelssohn's closest friends.

The songs comprise:
1. 'Im Grünen' ('Im Grün erwacht der frische Muth'), op.59 no.1, text by Helmina von Chézy
2. 'Im Wald' ('O Wald, du kühlender Bronnen'), op.100 no.4, text by Henrich Weismann
3. 'Abschied vom Wald' ('O Thäler weit, o Höhen'), op.59 no.3, text by Eichendorff
4. 'Der wandernde Musikant' ('Durch Feld und Buchenhallen'), op.88 no.6, text by Eichendorff
5. 'Ruhethal' ('Wenn im letzten Abendstrahl'), op.59 no.5, text by Uhland
6. 'Vorüber' ('Durch schwankende Wipfel'), op. 59 no.6 (where titled 'Jagdlied'), text by Eichendorff

Mendelssohn composed several sets of unaccompanied choral songs in the summer months of 1834 to 1843, strongly influenced by the simple formal structures and singable melodies of the Zweiter Berliner Liederschule with which his teacher Carl Friedrich Zelter is associated: subtitled 'Im Freien zu singen' (to be sung outdoors), the texts are typically inspired by nature. The songs were published during his lifetime in three sets of six, as op.41 (1834/37), op.48 (1839) and op.59 (1837/43), with ten further songs published posthumously as op.88 and op.100: the present selection, made as a presentation for his close friend Heinrich Conrad Schleinitz (the dedicatee of A Midsummer Night's Dream in the previous year), modifies the op.59 set with the addition of two later compositions. The third song here, 'Abschied vom Wald' ('O Thäler weit, o Höhen') became so popular that it is now virtually considered a folk song.
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