Sonata

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Attached manuscript note on flyleaf: "An Unpublished Sonata for Piano. Dated 27th Nov. 1823. by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy."

"Sonatina" corrected on p.[1] to read "Sonata".

"L. e. g. G." written at top right corner of p.[1]

Interleaved with protective paper.

Autograph manuscript of his sonata for piano in B flat minor, dated 27 Nov. 1823 at end of score.

From the library of Lord Brotherton.

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Thematisch-systematisches Verzeichnis der musikalischen Werke (MWV). Studien-Ausgabe von Ralf Wehner (Wiesbaden, 2009), U 42.

First publication: A sonata by Mendelssohn, by R. Larry Todd (from The Piano Quarterly, 29, 1980, pp. 30-31).

Indexed in: Ralf Wehner: '"There is probably no better living authority on Mendelssohn's autograph": W.T. Freemantle und seine Mendelssohn-Sammlung', Mendelssohn Studien, 16 (2009), pp. 333-69,