Citation/reference: Wehner, Ralf, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy thematisch-systematisches Verzeichnis der muikalischen Werke (2009), page xlvi, and 243, Abschrift "e."
Citation/reference: Auction zu Dresden der von Generalmusikdirector Dr. Julius Rietz, Hofrath Dr. A. von Zahn in Dresden hinterlassenen Bibliotheken und Musikalien-Sammlung ... (1878), page 85, lot number 468.
Content: Copyist's manuscript in ink of the 1828 version with emendations in pencil representing the 1833 version.
Content: Staff notation.
Content: Work inspired by Goethe's poems Meeresstille and Glückliche Fahrt.
Ownership: This manuscript (together with the overture to Die Hochzeit des Camacho) was originally part of Nachlass-Band 16 formed by the heirs of Mendelssohn; it was given or loaned to Julius Rietz who kept it and was eventually auctioned as part of his estate in 1878. At some point it entered the collection of Joseph W. Drexel prior to his death in 1883.
Content: Housed with Drexel 5049.1, Overture to Die Hochzeit des Camacho, with which it was once bound.
