P. S. So far I have not yet learned to tie that cravat (I practised
yesterday before the looking-glass); but it is beautiful all the same.
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On the 29th of August Mendelssohn left London; and after a short stay in
Berlin, he proceeded to Düsseldorf to assume his new duties as
“Musikdirector.” He had accepted this position for three years, at a
salary of six hundred thalers per annum, with three months’ leave of
absence.
The original score of his Overture to the “Isles of Fingal” he gave to
Moscheles. We reproduce
[Illustration: 10. Fac-simile of Humorous Note. (See page 70.)]
the first page of it. On perusing it some fifty years after it was
written, Gounod made the note at the foot.[23]
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