Konzert für 2 Klaviere Es-Dur

Title from: Wehner, p. 362.

"Manuscrit de Mendelssohn"-head of caption.

Interleaved with protective paper.

Manuscript leaf bound in, comprising a transcript of a review from Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung, 1840, pp. 117-118, and a short extract of an account of the performance from Ferdinand Hiller's "Mendelssohn. Letters and recollections" (London : Macmillan and Co., 1874), p. 161.

Loose manuscript leaf at front, with a note about the score in W.T. Freemantle's hand.

Autograph manuscript of cadenzas for the first and last movements of Mozart's Concerto in E♭ for two pianos. Written out for a performance on 30 January 1840 by Mendelssohn and Ferdinand Hiller. Appears to contain music for piano 1 only.

From the library of Lord Brotherton.

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

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,