Autograph Letter Signed ("Felix Mendelssohn+Bartholdy") to the publishing house of C.F. Peters.

Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Felix, German composer (1809-1847).

Published by Düsseldorf, May 14, 1834

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4to (254 x 411 mm). 1 p. with integral autograph address leaf. Pages toned with some staining, restoration at center vertical fold, sheet laid down to mount. Letter to the publishing house of C.F. Peters regarding their offer to publish his work, , , , and framed with portrait.Much of Mendelssohn's early works, including quartets composed when he was just a teenager and the edition of Bach's St. Matthew Passion which reignited interest in the earlier composer, were published by A.M. Schlesinger of Berlin. By 1834, however, as this letter from the firm of C.F. Peters (known today as Edition Peters) attests, other established publishers were reaching out to print Mendelssohn's works."Your letter of the 9th gave me great pleasure and I thank you very much for it. The many excellent works that you have continually published, and the high rank that your publishing activity occupies in the musical world had long since made me want to do something of mine with you and see you publish it, and I would certainly have uttered it if I would have thought that you would [.] welcome this. I am all the more pleased to now receive your letter and I accept your [.] business offer that is so honorable to me(?) with great pleasure. Since I understand you might prefer pianoforte-compositions I would have liked to give you something of the same kind [.] but I have nothing ready to hand over at this moment. I hope, however, [.] that several works that are occupying me at the moment will be finished in a while, and [.] among them also pianoforte-stuff, some of which I started. As soon as they are ready, I will take the liberty of writing to you, and I will ask you then for your friendly and honorable sentiments. / Your news of the good success of my Calm Sea made me very happy, and I wish I had been at the concert, since I mailed the score right after I finished it, so I haven't even heard the piece yet." Mendelssohn's Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage (Op. 27), originally performed in 1828 and published in 1834 by the firm of Breitkopf & Hartel, was inspired both by the two Goethe poems mentioned in the title and by Beethoven's own similarly titled 1814-15 work for chorus and orchestra which had fallen into neglect by the time of Mendelssohn's writing.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Autograph Letter Signed ("Felix Mendelssohn+Bartholdy") to the publishing house of C.F. Peters.
• Publisher: Düsseldorf, May 14, 1834
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