MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY FELIX Autograph Letter Signed to Mr [I

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MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY, FELIX. Autograph Letter Signed, to Mr. [Ignaz?] Seydlitz ("Esteemed Sir"), in German, informing him that he could not visit as early as originally proposed, but expecting to remain with him during the Cologne Festival, requesting that his plans be conveyed to the gentlemen of the Committee, and adding that if a member of the Committee should have something to discuss he can meet him on the 27th and bring the arrangement for the "Bacchus Chorus." 1 page, large 4to, with integral address leaf; short closed separations at folds. Leipzig, 11 May 1846

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". . . It has now been decided . . . that I shall not be leaving until the 27th, so there will be no time left for me to carry out my threatened visit . . . . But during the Festival days in Cologne you will find it all the more difficult to get rid of me!
". . . If there should be something important to discuss, perhaps one of the gentlemen could await the first direct boat that comes down from Frankfurt to Aachen on the 27th and could then perhaps also show me the arrangement for the score of my Bacchus Chorus . . . ."
The "Bacchus Chorus" is from Mendelssohn's Antigone, op. 55, commissioned by King Friedrich Wilhelm IV and first performed in Potsdam in 1841.