[1] F. Rosen, Professor of Sanscrit at the London University. He,
like Klingemann, was attached to the Hanoverian Embassy, and became
an intimate friend of Mendelssohn and Moscheles. His brother, Georg
Rosen, himself a distinguished Orientalist, and for many years
Consul-General for Prussia in Jerusalem, married Serena, the second
daughter of Moscheles.
[2] The Mendelssohn Family, by Hensel, vol. i. p. 190.
[3] The _work_ alluded to was the Operetta, “The Son and Stranger,”
in which every member of the family wished to take part. The painter
Hensel, who had married Mendelssohn’s eldest sister, being totally
unmusical, had the part of _one and the same note_ composed for him,
which even then he was not able to catch.
[4] Mendelssohn’s Letters (Reisebriefe), vol. i. p. 357.
[5] Accompanying this translation by Robert Browning was the following
tribute to the memory of Moscheles:--
Were my version but as true to the original as your father’s life
was to his noble ideal, it would be good indeed. As it is, accept
the best of
Yours truly ever,