Jacob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-47) was a composer. See the Grove Dictionary of Music for further details.
Microfilms of 740 letters written by Felix Mendelssohn and his sister Fanny to their parents and to each other, 1821-47.
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Existence/Location of OriginalsThe originals are located at the New York Public Library.
A description is available in the Library, where there is also a card index to unpublished catalogues.
Related Units of DescriptionFor related material see Peter Ward Jones, Catalogue of the Mendelssohn papers in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, III (Tutzing, 1989), pp. 308-11.
Bartholdy | Jacobludwig Felix | Mendelssohn- | 1809-1847 | composer
Hensel | Fanny Cecilie | 1805-1847 | nee Mendelssohn-Bartholdy | composer, sister to Jacobludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
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