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Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Correspondence / travel letters / primary source · 1860s edition · English, translated from German
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland. Boston / New York: Oliver Ditson & Co.; C. H. Ditson & Co., 1860s edition.
These letters document Mendelssohn’s travels through Italy and Switzerland and offer first-person evidence for his reactions to landscape, art, cities, performers, religious music and social life. They are especially valuable because the travel years overlap with a period of major artistic development and with works whose later reception…
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Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from 1833 to 1847
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Correspondence / primary source · English, translated from German
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from 1833 to 1847.
This continuation of Mendelssohn’s correspondence covers the mature professional years: conducting, composition, festivals, institutional work, travel, family life and an increasingly dense European network. The letters place major works and professional decisions within the everyday practical realities of nineteenth-century musical life.
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The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1769–1791 — Volume I
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Correspondence / primary source · 1866 · English
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1769–1791 — Volume I. New York and Philadelphia, 1866.
The first volume presents Mozart’s correspondence from the Italian journeys through Mannheim, Paris and the Idomeneo period, preserving first-hand evidence about family relations, patrons, performers, travel and composition.
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The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1769–1791 — Volume II
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Correspondence / primary source · 1866 · English
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1769–1791 — Volume II. New York and Philadelphia, 1866.
The second volume continues the correspondence through Mozart’s mature Viennese years and is particularly useful for questions of professional life, opera, commissions, finances and personal networks.
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