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190020209Leipzig: C. F. Peters 1900. Hardcover. vg. 4to. 169pp. Red cloth with embossed gilt lettering and Art-Nouveau-style "Jugenstil" decoration. Decorated endpapers. Delightfully decorated title page. Musical scores and lyrics of 79 songs composed by the renowned composer and pianist of the Romantic period Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy a.k.a. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847 Born to a notable German- Jewish family Mendelssohn was the grandson of the acclaimed Jewish-German philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. His work includes concerts oratorios symphonies piano and chamber music. Source: Public Domain. Minor age wear to binding with browning throughout. Owner's stamp to free front endpaper and title page not affecting text. Minor pencil marks to few pages. Otherwise clean and tight. Lyrics in German musical notations in Italian. Very good condition. C. F. Peters hardcover
18192329134Ofen: Paul Burian'schen Buchandlung 1819. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. German text. Boards rubbed with some loss from corners especially top of front panel internal split to leather of spine causing minor loss from label a few pages faintly stained. 1819 Hard Cover. viii 201 pp. Leather spine with leather spine label marbled boards Volume 4 of Mendelssohn's collected works comprising a brief philosophical history with a sketch of his life and character by D. Jenisch. Mendelssohn was an influential German-Jewish philosopher and theologian who helped launch the Haskalah Jewish Enlightenment of the eighteenth and nineteenth century. Paul Burian'schen Buchandlung hardcover
184227882Soho London: Oct 22 1842. 1842. Good. - sc Small quarto approximately 10 inches high by 8 inches wide. 57 words penned in black ink on a sheet of cream stock. signed "Yours faithfully / J Alfred Novello". With the recipient's name and address penned on the verso. The letter is lightly creased & soiled with a light stain in the blank space to the left of the signature; There is a tiny chip to the top edge. Remnants of gray paper adhere to a strip of mounting tape on the verso where the letter has been removed from an album. Folded 4 times for mailing. Good. <p>Novello writes to "French Esq. / Her Majesty's Chapel Royal / Windsor": "A friend of mine offered me the accompanying 2 vols for 16/- they are not in my way but I thought they might suit you for your autographs - If you like them send me a post office order as the money wd. be acceptable to the party who wants to sell them if not return them to me".<p>Joseph Alfred Novello was the son of well-known organist and composer Vincent Novello and like his father devoted himself to the propagation of good music in England. As a friend and admirer of Felix Mendelssohn he was particularly eager to introduce that composer's work to English audiences. Some years after establishing himself at the age of nineteen as a music publisher in London he invented a system for printing cheap music and succeeded in introducing it in spite of the opposition of his fellow music-sellers. He was active and effective in promoting the progess of the arts science and social betterment. Soho [London]: Oct 22, 1842. unknown
18808187B1880. (= Musikalische Vorträge, 27/28), Gr.-8° (24 x 16,2 cm), (1) S., S. 52-103, (1) Seiten, Portrait-Lithographie Taf., Frakturschrift Schwarzer, blind- und goldgeprägter OLn
1864303228Leipzig: Hermann Mendelssohn 1864. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description; 527 pages. Subjects; Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdn. Leipzig: Hermann Mendelssohn hardcover
186273741Leipzig: Mendelssohn 1862. Gebunden. Mendelssohn unknown
1879126381Leipzig & Berlin: C.F. Peters 1879. Hardcover. Very Good. Sheet music. Four volumes bound together each volume with its own front cover and pagination. Quarto. 54; 50; 60; 62pp. Half black calf black cloth boards with gilt trim along the calf gilt bands along the spine creating six compartments with "piano" stamped in gilt in the second compartment from the top. Boards and spine worn the front cover of the first volume is detached and laid in each volume with a music shop stamp on the front cover very good with the music clean. Instrumental pieces for piano.<br /> <br /> 1 Liszt: Chapelle Sixtine; Bülow: Op. 19 – Tarantella; Tausig: Transcription von Rich. Wagner’s Kaisermarsch; Rubinstein: Op. 23 No. 2 Concert-Etude<br /> <br /> 2 Raff Op. 93 – Dans la nacelle; Raff Op. 105 No. 3 – Troisieme Eglogue; Raff Op. 105 No. 4. - Quatrieme Eglogue; Raff Op. 105 No. 5 – Cinquieme Eglogue; Raff Op. 92 – Capriccio; Raff Op. 79 – Cachoucha Caprice<br /> <br /> 3 Transcriptionen von Alfred Jaell: No. 1: Nicolai – Lustigen Weiber von Windsor; No. 2: Mendelssohn – Hochzeitsmarsch; No. 3: Wagner – Lohengrin und Tannhäuser; No. 4: Bellini - Norma<br /> <br /> 4 Transcriptionen von Alfred Jaell: No. 1: Gounod – Faust-Walzer; No. 2: Meyerbeer – Afrikanerin Romance der Ines; No. 3: Meyerbeer – Afrikanerin Chor der Bischöfe; No. 4: Meyerbeer – Afrikanerin Arie des Nelusko; No. 5 Gounod – Romeo und Julie. C.F. Peters hardcover
185035288London: Ewer & Co 1850. Folio. Disbound. 1f. recto title within decorative borderprinted in light red verso blank 13 i blank pp. Engraved.<br /> <br /> Small embossed stamp of English musicseller Etherington to foot of title.<br /> <br /> Minor offsetting. First English edition. MWV U158 p. 344. Catalogue of the Mendelssohn Papers in the Bodleian Library III 771. Not in Krause or Hoboken.<br /> <br /> One of the most gifted and versatile prodigies Mendelssohn stood at the forefront of German music during the 1830s and 40s as conductor pianist organist and above all composer. His musical style fully developed before he was 20 drew upon a variety of influences including the complex chromatic counterpoint of Bach the formal clarity and gracefulness of Mozart and the dramatic power of Beethoven and Weber.<br /> <br /> Mendelssohn's emergence into the first rank of 19th-century German composers coincided with efforts by music historiographers to develop the concept of a Classic-Romantic dialectic in 18th and 19th-century music. To a large degree his music reflects a fundamental tension between Classicism and Romanticism in the generation of German composers after Beethoven." R. Larry Todd in Grove Music Online. Ewer & Co unknown
185836212Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel PN 5286 1858. Folio. 1 title 2 blank 3-19 pp. Lithographed.<br /> <br /> Small oval publisher's stamp and Scharfenberg & Luis New York musicseller's stamp to foot of title.<br /> <br /> Disbound. Slightly worn; title detached; music seller's stamp very slightly cropped at lower edge. First Edition later issue. MWV 08. Krause 157 first issue.<br /> <br /> "One of the most gifted and versatile prodigies Mendelssohn stood at the forefront of German music during the 1830s and 40s as conductor pianist organist and above all composer. His musical style fully developed before he was 20 drew upon a variety of influences including the complex chromatic counterpoint of Bach the formal clarity and gracefulness of Mozart and the dramatic power of Beethoven and Weber.<br /> <br /> Mendelssohn's emergence into the first rank of 19th-century German composers coincided with efforts by music historiographers to develop the concept of a Classic-Romantic dialectic in 18th and 19th-century music. To a large degree his music reflects a fundamental tension between Classicism and Romanticism in the generation of German composers after Beethoven." R. Larry Todd in Grove Music Online. Breitkopf & Härtel [PN 5286] unknown
187735155Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel PN M.B.122 Kl.A 1877. Folio. Original publisher's full dark red cloth with titling gilt to upper within decorative blindstamped border titling gilt to spine; dark ivory endpapers. 1 title 2-83. i blank pp. Engraved. Text in German. With "Breitkopf & Härtels Musikbücher Nr. 181" to head of upper wrapper. <br /> <br /> With Hungarian translation in ink along with marked cuts to No. 6. Terzett "O wie verschweig' ich."<br /> <br /> In the series "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's Werke. Kritisch durchgesehene Ausgabe von Julius Reitz. Mit Genehmigung der Originalverleger Serie 15. Grössere weltiche Gesangwerke. Klavier-Auszug." From the Breitkopf edition of Mendelssohn's Complete Works No. 122. <br /> <br /> Together with: <br /> Heimkehr aus dem Fremde. Libretto. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel 1885. 16mo. Original publisher's light gray printed wrappers. 1f. recto title verso blank 12 2 pp. publisher's catalogue of piano-vocal scores and libretti with additional publisher's catalogue to verso of upper and recto and verso of lower wrapper.<br /> <br /> Together with:<br /> An invitation to the 1931 production of the opera from the Budapest Choral and Orchestra Association Ének- és Zenekaregyesűlet partially laid down to front free endpaper signed by István Eisler for the commissioning group and with his name in ink along with a date of December 1930 to upper outer corner and handstamp of Hungarian publisher/musicseller Rózsavölgyi és társa dated December 12 1930 to lower outer corner of endpaper. Later printing. MWV L6 p. 196.<br /> <br /> Heimkehr aus der Fremde a Liederspiel in 1 act to a libretto by Karl Klingemann was given a private premiere in Berlin on 26 December 1829. The first public performance took place in Leipzig on 10 April 1851. <br /> <br /> "Mendelssohn's deft command of orchestral colour is evident throughout the work and his ability to create charming effects with the simplest of means is impressive." Clive Brown in Grove Dictionary of Opera<br /> <br /> "One of the most gifted and versatile prodigies Mendelssohn stood at the forefront of German music during the 1830s and 40s as conductor pianist organist and above all composer. His musical style fully developed before he was 20 drew upon a variety of influences including the complex chromatic counterpoint of Bach the formal clarity and gracefulness of Mozart and the dramatic power of Beethoven and Weber.<br /> <br /> Mendelssohn's emergence into the first rank of 19th-century German composers coincided with efforts by music historiographers to develop the concept of a Classic-Romantic dialectic in 18th and 19th-century music. To a large degree his music reflects a fundamental tension between Classicism and Romanticism in the generation of German composers after Beethoven." R. Larry Todd in Grove Music Online. Breitkopf & Härtel [PN M.B.122 Kl.A] unknown
187026858Berlin: N. Simrock, o. J. (ca. 1870). Format: 19 x 27,5 cm. (Reihe: Mendelssohns Werke für Pianoforte allein. In sechs Bänden. Erster Band). 65 Seiten. Fest gebunden in roten, stark skulpierten, üpppig ziergeprägten Orig. Leinen mit goldgepr. Deckeltitel und flächigem goldenem Deckelporträt. Getönte, gelackte (leicht altersspurige) Vorsätze. Kleiner Tuschefleck am fl. Vorsatz. Durchaus vom Alter gestreiftes, insg. jedoch gutes Exemplar.
186269739Leipzig, Mendelssohn 1862. VIII, 569 S.; ; 18 cm Halbwerkstoff [3 Warenabbildungen] 0
1838192514Wien: M. Schmidl's 1838. Hardcover. Good - Spine strip is peeling significantly; boards are heavily worn; corners are heavily worned; boards are heavily scuffed; inner hinge is cracked; pages are heavily age-toned; pages are foxed; frontispiece has a tear inside near hinge; text block is solid. Leather-bound with gilt lettering and illustration; frontispiece; text block edges are red; 1016 pp.; illustrated. Text in German. This is a interesting collection of the writings of Moses Mendelssohn. M. Schmidl's hardcover
1899551Leipzig 1899. Hardcover. Very Good. 7th ed. In 2 parts one vol. Index. Marbled foredge. Cover slightly rubbed. Illus. with gilt cover & spine. Original binding. <br/><br/> hardcover
1861Alibris.0034586Vienna Austria: M. Löwy's Sohn. 1861. 1/4 leather. Fair. No dust jacket. 611 p. ex-library cover is well-worn stamp on outside edge binding is completely split along hinges book block is taped to cover label inside front cover foxing age spots on pages label & stamp inside back cover M. Löwy's Sohn hardcover
1863Alibris.0034587Vienna Austria: M. Löwy's Sohn. 1863. 1/4 leather. Fair. No dust jacket. ex-library no dust jacket cover is well-worn stamp on outside edge label inside front cover front hinge is completely separated with tape holding book block to front cover back hinge is partly separated label & stamps. 360 p. M. Löwy's Sohn hardcover
1890981T21London: Longmans Green & Co. 1890-1891. Leather. Good Only. 7.5" by 5". Not Stated. A smartly bound collection of letters from German composer and writer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Two volumes. The collected letters of Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy widely known as Felix Mendelssohn a German composer pianist organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositions include symphonies concertos piano music organ music and chamber music. These personal correspondences offer readers an intimate glimpse into the life thoughts and experiences of the renowned composer during a significant period of his career reflecting both his professional challenges and personal reflections related to music art and relationships. Translated by Lady Wallace Julie Amelie Charlotte Castelnau an English philanthropist best known today for her "bequest to the Nation" of about 5500 artworks that resulted in the Wallace Collection. This set contains: Letters from Italy and Switzerland 1891. Tenth edition. With a frontispiece. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from 1833 to 1847 1890. New edition. Bound in full tree calf. Externally sound with light rubbing to the extremities and the light fading to the spine. Cracks to the joints with hinges tender. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light spotting predominantly to the first and last few pages. Contemporary ink inscriptions to the front free endpapers. Good Only Longmans, Green & Co. hardcover
183920885London: G. Berger 1839. First Edition. . Hardcover. Good. Folio. 416pp. Mus.exs. Spine and covers rubbed and bumped covers staind spine cocked title page creased sonme page edges frayed and corners bent. Consisting f Songs Duets and Glees with Accompaniments for the Pianoforte and Arrangements for the Pianoforte Harp Guitar Etc. by Bishop Barnet Bochsa Grantham Kalkbrenner Lee Lanza Loder Neukomm Phillips and Sola with Adaptations and~Arrangements from Bartholdy BNeethoven Haydn Hummel T. Kuhlan Lindpainter H. Marschner Mendelssohn Spohr Weber and All the old Masters. Embracing: Original Tales and Esays. - Posthumous Papers of Celebrated Authors. - Original Poetry. - Translations from the Spanish German Italian and French. - Sketches of Scenery. - Manners and Customs. - Biography of Celebrated Characters. - Choice Brief and Pointed Passages fromthe Best New Works. - Comments on Passing Events. - Original Correspondence. - The Fine Arts Poetry Paintng Music and Sculpture. - Criticisms on Meritorious Productions. - Reminiscences of Olden Times. - Strictures on the Drama and Other Amusements and a Variety of Miscellaneous Matter Pathetic Moral Humorous etc. <br/> <br/> G. Berger hardcover
1885995H8London: Novello and Company Limited c1885. Cloth. Very Good. 10.5" by 7". None. The scarce Novello octavo edition score of Mendelssohn"s expansive choral-symphonic masterpiece "Hymn of Praise Lobgesang". In the publisher's original red cloth binding. Novello's original octavo edition. This copy is undated. Dated here using Jisc from copies held at the University of Edinburgh Libraries University of Leeds Library and University of Nottingham Library. A vocal score of Felix Mendelssohn"s Lobgesang "Hymn of Praise" a hybrid symphony cantata combining orchestral and sacred choral movements chorus soloists and piano. It sets biblical texts and includes the chorale "Nun danket alle Gott" in a richly lyrical Romantic idiom. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally smart. Slight fading and discolouration to extremities and spine. Slight shelf wear to extremities. Minor loss to cloth at top corner of front board. One or two very slight handling marks to boards. Internally firmly bound. Hinge slightly cracked at the title page but firm. Pages bright and clean. Previous owner's contemporary ink inscription to title page. The odd spot heavier to first and last few leaves. Very Good Novello and Company, Limited hardcover
1862955Y6London: Longman Green Longman Roberts and Green 1862-1863. First edition. Leather. Good. 7.5" by 5". None. Two volumes offering the letters of German composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy uniformly bound in half calf. Comprising two first English editions of Felix Mendelssohn's letters translated by Lady Wallace. Includes 'Letters from Italy and Switzerland' 1862 and 'Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from 1833 to 1847' 1863. Uniformly bound in half calf with marbled paper covered boards. With a frontispiece to 'Mendelssohn's Letters'. Felix Mendelssohn was a German composer and conductor of the early Romantic period. These letters offer a delightful insight into his travels and artistic inspirations through Italy and Switzerland as well as his general correspondence including his thoughts on music for public worship on pianoforte playing and a proposal for an academy of music. Uniformly bound in half calf with marbled paper covered boards and gilt to the spines. Externally with rubbing to the extremities and a few scuffs to the boards. Internally firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with the odd spot or handling mark and a minor tide mark to the frontispiece leaf. Good Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green hardcover