1847
from My Musical Life, page 15:
In 1847 I was staying at a house where the overture to the "Midsummer Night's Dream" was played as a pianoforte duet. It is arranged a quatre mains by MENDELSSOHN himself. Every evening it was my unspeakable delight to listen to it. The world at large was not then much excited about MENDELSSOHN no one spoke of him out of certain musical cliques, and I was not in the cliques but my curiosity was intensely excited; every scrap of news about him I fell upon eagerly.
cite as
Hugh Reginald Haweis, My Musical Life (London, 1898), p. 15. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1437643218811 accessed: 19 December, 2024
Listening to
hide composers
Overture to Midsummer Night's Dream
written by Felix Mendelssohn |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | 1847 |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors |
Originally submitted by sp327 on Thu, 23 Jul 2015 10:20:19 +0100
Approved on Wed, 27 Apr 2016 11:56:54 +0100