Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Felix.

in the hand of Mendelssohn's copyist Eduard Henschke, Mendelssohn's corrections and annotations in brown ink, with the composer's instructions for the title-page at the foot of the first page ("Duo pour Piano et Violoncelle composé et dedié...au Comte Matthieu Wielhorsky par F MB...") and with other additions and corrections on page two, 2 pages, folio, (c.33.5 x 24.8cm), modern cloth folding box, light browning, a few tiny tears to margins expertly repaired, together with a copy of the first edition of Op.58 (Kistner, 1843), 43 and 12 pages, folio, engraved, plate number 1395, unbound

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This attractive manuscript contains the opening fifty-two bars of one of Mendelssohn's most polished chamber works, the great Cello Sonata no.2 in D, composed in June 1843 and first performed in Leipzig on 18 November of that year. The composer's absolute attention to detail is revealed not only in his fine adjustments to the dynamic markings in bars 32ff. of the manuscript, but also in his careful instructions for the title-page, entered at the foot of the first page.