A Friendship in Letters: The Correspondence of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Carl Klingemann

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy carried out extensive correspondence with his family and friends as well as with artists and other important personalities of his time. His complete correspondence includes 4,700 letters written by him, and 7,000 letters sent to him from 1817 to 1847, and its literary quality and historical value is beyond question. Reflecting Mendelssohn’s life, activities and production in great detail, it is an unparalleled historical document of the cultural, social, and intellectual geneses in the first half of the nineteenth century.