[1]

[2] Three pieces for the piano, composed in 1829 for the album of three young English ladies; subsequently published as Opus 16.

[3] Felix Mendelssohn attended the Berlin University as a matriculated student for more than a year; a vast number of sheets written by him at this period, during the lectures, are still extant.

[4] A relation of the family.

[5] Mendelssohn's instructor in the theory of music.

[6] The name of the child.

[7] The violin player, Edward Ritz, an intimate friend of Mendelssohn's.

[8] Formerly a singer in the Royal Theatre at Berlin.

[9] Afterwards published under the name of "Overture to the Hebrides."

[10] A little sketch of the catafalque was enclosed in the letter.

[11] This piece appeared afterwards as Opus 39.

[12] Vernet lived in the Villa Medici.

[13] This picture is in the Borghese Gallery.

[14] On the 3rd of February, 1830, the bands of some regiments in Berlin gave Mendelssohn a serenade in honour of his birthday.

[15] The Prussian Consul-General Bartholdy, who died in Rome, and was an uncle of Felix Mendelssohn's.

[16] Some disturbances had in the meantime broken out in the Ecclesiastical States, at Bologna.

[17] The whole family had been in Switzerland in the year 1821.

[18] In the 'Titan' of Jean Paul.

[19] The overture to the "Midsummer Night's Dream" was composed by Mendelssohn as early as the year 1826.

[20] In the year 1821.

[21] In the "Liederheft," Opus 15 of his posthumous works.

[22] Ludwig Berger, Mendelssohn's instructor on the piano.

[23] Mendelssohn jokingly alludes to a poem of BÜrger,—Der Abt von St. Gallen.

[24] Vide the letter from Rome of the 1st of February, 1831.

[25] Felix Mendelssohn, during his stay in Munich, received a commission from the director of the theatre, to write an opera for Munich.

[26] The lady who instructed Mendelssohn in the piano in Paris, when the family resided there for a time in 1816.

[27] Mendelssohn had been thrown out of a cabriolet in London in 1829, and his knee seriously injured.

[28] A "Kinder-Sinfonie," composed by Mendelssohn in the year 1829, for a Christmas family fÊte.

[29] A play upon Fanny Hensel's house, in a court—No. 3, Leipziger Strasse.

[30] At that time the residence of the St. Simoniens.

[31] The death of his friend Edward Ritz, the violin player.

[32] The cholera.

[33] Felix Mendelssohn had an attack of cholera during the last weeks of his stay in Paris.

[34] In reference to a situation in the Singacademie.

[35] He had received the news of Zelter's death.