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Actor and baritone Eduard Devrient (1801-77) first met Felix
Mendelssohn (1809-47) in 1822, and they remained close friends
thereafter. During his lifetime, Mendelssohn achieved celebrity
status as a composer, virtuoso pianist and conductor, and it was
Devrient who secured in 1829 the famous performance in Berlin,
under Mendelssohn's direction, of the St Matthew Passion, which
began the Bach revival. First published in German in 1869, this
work is reissued here in the English translation of the same year
by Natalia Macfarren (1827-1913), singer and wife of the composer
Sir George Macfarren. Her work as a translator included the first
English versions of Wagner's Lohengrin and Verdi's Rigoletto.
Although Devrient does not always exactly reproduce the
correspondence, particularly where Mendelssohn is critical of
others, the letters and commentary here serve to illuminate the
development of a great composer.
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