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2014-05-06 11:16:04
'LOST' MENDELSSOHN SONG RE-DISCOVERED
[…] never published, the song was known to scholars as it had been sold at auction in 1862 and again in 1872. Since then, its whereabouts were unknown until it was found in the papers of the current owner’s grandfather, himself a musician and Mendelssohn enthusiast. But how and why the piece came to be in the US is still a mystery. The song is accompanied by a letter from Mendelssohn to theatre manager Johann Valentin Teichmann – who commissioned the song – asking him not to circulate the piece. Given it was a private commission, Ward Jones said Glynn and Williamson’s rendition was “almost certainly the first public performance of this song – Mendelssohn would probably have disapproved [because it was written as a private commission]“. For the full article: BBC News
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