HISTORY OF MENDELSSOHN'S "ELIJAH."
" While I wrote the alterations in the Chorus No. 40 [41] (in my last letter) I forgot to write that there is also one in the accompaniment of that (they are the last but two of the last page but one of that Chorus) thus : —
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��" As for the story of the opera,* my friend Klinge- mann will tell you all about it, as I have written it at length to him, and I am so overloaded with Leipzig music, and with letters, and with all sorts of things, that you must excuse me if I refer you to him, and cannot repeat again what I wrote about that story.
" Always very truly yours,
- Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.
" P.S. — I am now almost sure that I shall be able to leave here on the 6th of April, and to conduct in London my ' Elijah' on the i6th, &c. I shall tlien leave on the 30th (as you suggested) and go to Switzerland; and if Mr. Mitchell )jntsi have me and the * Athalie ' in July, I shall come back in July ; if not I will stay at Vevay the whole summer, and compose away ! "
- The opera of "The Tempest, " which Mr. Luniley, in his opera
prospectus of 1847, announced as ha\in,s; been "expressly composed for Her Majesty's Theatre," by Mendelssohn. ( "6 )
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