![MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY, Felix (1809-1847). Autograph music manuscript signed (‘Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’), ‘Lied von Rückert für eine Alt-Stimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte’, Berlin, 27 April 1842, an unpublished song, ‘Des Menschen Herz ist ein Schacht’, 29 bars for voice and piano in 5 systems of three staves, in A flat major, a neat, typically elegant manuscript with only two minor textual corrections, inscribed to Privy Councillor [Johann Valentin] Teichmann, 'auf ausdrückliche Bestellung niedergeschrieben’ ('written at his express request'), superscribed in autograph with the invocation ‘H[ilf] d[u] m[ir]’, on one page, large 4to (302 x 228mm), on a bifolium, autograph title page (somewhat browned, splitting affecting a strip to upper margin of music page, the title page somewhat marked and soiled); with an autograph letter signed by Mendelssohn to Teichmann, Leipzig, 3 May 1842, asking him not to circulate the song, ‘weil ich es nur auf Ihren Wunsch und nur für Sie geschrieben habe’, although as Teichmann has already shown it to the bookseller [Wilhelm] Besser, he may give him a copy, one page, 8vo (231 x 142mm), laid onto verso of title (minor splitting and loss to lower corners). Provenance: T.O. Weigel, Catalogue d’une belle collection de lettres autographes dont la vente publique aura lieu à Leipzig, 12 Juin 1862, lot 490; catalogue of List & Franke, 23 January 1872, 139, no. 2569.
A LOST MENDELSSOHN SONG. Since its tantalising appearance in two Leipzig auction catalogues in 1862 and 1872, the song has become something of a classic case of a lost Mendelssohn work. The text is drawn from the second stanza of Rückert's poem 'Das Unveränderliche'. The recipient of the song, Johann Valentin Teichmann (1791-1860), was active for more than forty years as 'geheimer Secretär' in the office of the general management of the royal theatre in Berlin, for which his published Literarische Nachlass is an important source. He lived on an upper floor at the Mendelssohn Bartholdy house at Leipzigerstrasse in Berlin from 1828 to 1831. Literature: Leipziger Ausgabe der Werke Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdys (Deutscher Verlag für Musik, 2009), vol.13 (Mendelssohn Werkverzeichniss), K.111; Ralf Wehner. ‘“It seems to have been lost”: On Missing and Recovered Mendelssohn Sources’, The Mendelssohns. Their music in history. Oxford: OUP, 2002, pp.9 & 18.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2014/CKS/2014_CKS_01550_0018_000(mendelssohn_bartholdy_felix_autograph_music_manuscript_signed_lied_von).jpg?mode=max&Width=200)
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LOT 18 , SALE 1550
MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY, Felix (1809-1847) Autograph music manuscript signed
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LOT 23 , SALE 7882
MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY, Felix (1809-1847) Autograph musical quotation, four
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GBP 10,000
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LOT 69 , SALE 5960
MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY, Felix (1809-1847) Autograph letter signed ('Felix
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GBP 10,000
![MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY, Felix (1809-1847). Autograph letter signed ('Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy') to [Jenny Lind], Leipzig, 25 January 1846, two pages, 8vo, bifolium (a few nicks, traces of mount on integral blank). Provenance: collection of Dr Edward J. Keffer (d.1937), Philadelphia; Walter R. Benjamin Autographs, New York, 1952.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2012/CKS/2012_CKS_05960_0070_000(mendelssohn_bartholdy_felix_autograph_letter_signed_to_jenny_lind_leip).jpg?mode=max&Width=200)
LOT 70 , SALE 5960
MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY, Felix (1809-1847) Autograph letter signed ('Felix
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GBP 10,000
![MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY, Felix (1809-1847). Autograph letter signed to the singer Henriette Grabau, Leipzig, 'Donnerstag' [3 or 10 March 1836], one page, 8vo, integral address leaf (minor splitting at upper and lower margins, skilfully repaired; seal tear), tipped onto card. Provenance: collection of Dr Fritz and Dita Callomon; and by gift.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2012/CKS/2012_CKS_05960_0068_000(mendelssohn_bartholdy_felix_autograph_letter_signed_to_the_singer_henr).jpg?mode=max&Width=200)
LOT 68 , SALE 5960
MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY, Felix (1809-1847) Autograph letter signed to the singer
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GBP 5,250
![MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY, Felix (1809-1847). Autograph letter signed ('Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy') to Mrs Grote, n.p. [London], 15 June 1844, IN ENGLISH, 'I promised to go to a Concert of the British Musicians at 2 o'clock, and am to dine out in the evening at 7, so I regret to say I cannot accept your very kind invitations for the horticultural and to dinner. But would you allow me to call in the course of the evening at your box in the Operahouse [sic]?', one page, 8vo (annotated 'F. Mendelssohn' at upper margin), integral address leaf (remnant of seal).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2014/CKS/2014_CKS_01550_0019_000(mendelssohn_bartholdy_felix_autograph_letter_signed_to_mrs_grote_np_lo).jpg?mode=max&Width=200)
LOT 19 , SALE 1550
MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY, Felix (1809-1847) Autograph letter signed ('Felix
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GBP 4,000
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LOT 37 , SALE 10457
MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY, Felix (1809-1847) Autograph letter signed ('Felix
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GBP 3,750
![MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY, Felix (1809-1847). Autograph letter signed (‘Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’) to a female correspondent (‘My dear Madam’), 4 Hobart Place, Eaton Square, [London], 30 April 1847.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2018/CKS/2018_CKS_16018_0077_000(mendelssohn_bartholdy_felix_autograph_letter_signed_to_a_female_corres).jpg?mode=max&Width=200)
LOT 77 , SALE 16018
MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY, Felix (1809-1847) Autograph letter signed (‘Felix
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GBP 3,250
![MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY, Fanny (1805-1847, married name Fanny Hensel). Autograph letter signed ('Fanny Mendelssohn Bartholdy') to the publisher Adolph Martin Schlesinger, [Berlin, 11 April 1829], sending, on behalf of her brother Felix who has departed the previous day [on his first trip to London], a set of galley proofs, and asking to see a proof of the title page 'before the little work appears. I will then return this title proof to you straightaway, as I only need to glance at it', half page, 4to, integral address leaf (seal tear, light soiling).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2012/CKS/2012_CKS_05960_0067_000(mendelssohn_bartholdy_fanny_autograph_letter_signed_to_the_publisher_a).jpg?mode=max&Width=200)
LOT 67 , SALE 5960
MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY, Fanny (1805-1847, married name Fanny Hensel) Autograph
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GBP 2,500
![MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY, Felix (1809-1847). Autograph letter signed ('Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy') to [the singer Sophie Schloss], Leipzig, 2 November 1846, asking her to attend a rehearsal of the finale from Weber's Euryanthe at the Gewandhaus on the following Wednesday 'so früh als möglich', having previously studied her part with the utmost attention, 'so as to be absolutely secure in bar, notes etc. The piece is hard ...; if you are absolutely sure in your part, it will go well; otherwise it will be impossible', reemphasising therefore the importance of her preparation, especially as the Mozart aria is to be held back for another occasion ('Das Stück ist schwer ...; wenn Sie also in Ihrer Partie vollkommen sicher sind, so wird es gut gehen; ohne das aber wäre es unmöglich'), one page, 8vo, on a bifolium.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2010/CSK/2010_CSK_05475_0202_000(mendelssohn_bartholdy_felix_autograph_letter_signed_to_[the_singer_sop).jpg?mode=max&Width=200)
LOT 202 , SALE 5475
MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY, Felix (1809-1847) Autograph letter signed ('Felix
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GBP 2,000