Twenty letters from Mendelssohn to members of the Horsley family, and several pieces of autograph music, including an arrangement for a piano duet of the 'Overture to the Isles of Fingal'.
Letters from Mendelssohn to members of the Horsley family
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- ReferenceGB 161 MSS. Horsley b. 1, c. 1
- Dates of Creation1828-47
- Name of Creator
- Language of MaterialEnglish, and German.
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Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Jacob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-47) was a composer. See the Grove Dictionary of Music for further details.
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Collection level description created by Susan Thomas, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.
Other Finding Aids
See Peter Ward Jones, Catalogue of the Mendelssohn papers in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, III (Tutzing, 1989), pp. 308-11.
Bibliography
Some of the letters have been printed in Karl Wolfgang P. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Goethe and Mendelssohn, 1821-1831, tr., with additions, by M.E. von Glehn, second edition (London: 1874).