Felix Mendelssohn-Bartoldy--Part 11 After the first performance of his Midsummer Night's Dream in London, the score was left in a hackney coach and thus lost. Mr. Atwood, who had it in charge was in despair, but Mendelssohn did not mind it in the least and wrote it all over again promptly. How much he was beloved by the public is evident from the fact that at the Gewandhaus concert which followed his engagement with Cecile the directors placed on the programme He Who..
Sunday, June 05, 2005
Music Of The Great Composers --