Anna Sanfilippo's articles with the keyword: Baviera

Beeatital it was, also, when the Queen of Bavaria arrived at Dusseldorf in a steamer, to see and hear Mendelssohn, and Mendelssohn, with two friends, was bathing in the Rhine, close to the landing-place—without Schwimmhosen. Ghost of Lord Haddo, imagine the scene ! " But we had a splendid view of the whole of the proceedings ; saw how Count 5— introduced the whole of the parsons, as well as the generals, to her Majesty ; and saw bow the senatus populusque Ditoseldotfiensis lined the shore,…

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) Overture, The Fair Melusine, Op 32 (1833) Mendelssohn thought his Fair Melusine overture “the best” and “most intimate” thing he had ever produced, an opinion shared, as he informed his beloved sister Fanny in a letter, by many of the people who heard him conduct it in Leipzig in 1836. On the other hand, he was irked by an excessively descriptive review of it by a German critic, whose references to red coral, green sea-beasts, magic castles, and deep seas we…