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3 Robert Schumann, “Zweiter Quartett-Morgen,” Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 8, no. 49 (June 19, 1838): 194. 4 Franz Krautwurst, “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy als Bratschist,” in Gedenkschrift Hermann Beck (Laaber, Germany: Laaber-Verlag, 1982), 152.

19 “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Died November 4, 1847,” Musical Times and Singing Class Circular 38, no. 657 (November 1, 1897): 732. Also cited in Clive Brown, A Portrait of Mendelssohn (New haven: yale university Press, 2003), 237. Emphasis in the original.

20 “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Died November 4, 1847,” 731. Also cited in Brown, 237.

5 Ibid.

6 Ibid.

21 Patrick Kast, preface to Trio c-moll für Violine, Viola und Klavier , by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (Adliswil, Switzerland: Kunzelmann GMBh, 1999), v.

7 Ibid.

8 Quoted in Ernst Wolff, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (Berlin: harmonie, 1909), 48.

22 Krautwurst, 156.

9 Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy to George Smart, June 26, 1831, in Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Sämtliche Briefe , ed. Anja Morgenstern and uta Wald (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2009), 2: 300.

23 Ibid.

24 David M. Brin, “Sonata in C Minor for Viola and Piano: A Neglected Work by a Master Composer,” Strings 5 , no. 6 (May/June 1991): 28–29. 25 R. Larry Todd, “The Chamber Music of Mendelssohn,” in Nineteenth-Century Chamber Music, ed. Stephen E. hefling (New york: Routledge, 2004), 179.

10 Ibid., 301.

11 Krautwurst, 153.

12 Schumann, 193–5.

13 “ …und hatte Herzklopfen als ich zum erstenmal vor dem Publicum Bratsche spielte. ” Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy to Karl Klingemann, 1836, in Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdys briefwechsel mit legationsrat Karl Klingemann in London (Essen, Germany: G. D. Baedeker, 1909), 198.

26 Brin, 29.

Bibliography Brin, David. “Sonata in C Minor for Viola and Piano: A Neglected Work by a Master Composer.” Strings (May/June 1991): 28–31.

14 Krautwurst, 154.

Brown, Clive. A Portrait of Mendelssohn . New haven: yale university Press, 2003.

15 Ibid.

16 Ibid., 155.

Clarke, Rebecca. “The history of the Viola in Quartet Playing.” Music and Letters 4, no. 1 (January 1923): 6–17. “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Died November 4, 1847.” Musical Times and Singing Class Circular 38, no. 657 (November 1, 1897): 729–33.

17 Karl Emil von Webern, “Aus Den Erinnerungen des Generalleutnants Karl Emil von Webern,” Die Musik 12, no. 4 (1912/13): 83.

18 Louis Spohr, Autobiography: Translated from the German (New york: Da Capo Press, 1969), 2: 279.

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