Autograf: letzter Nachweis siehe Druck 2
Druck 1: Music. Books, Manuscripts, Autographs and Engravings (= Maggs Bros. Katalog 476), London 1926, S. 78f. (teilweise englische Übersetzung)
Druck 2: Collector. A Magazine for Autograph and Historical Collectors 66 (1953) (= Katalog Walter R. Benjamin Autographs, New York), S. 132 (teilweise englische Übersetzung)

[…] ((Thank you very much for the kind dedication of your Concerto)) […] I have already ((practised it a bit and)) played it several times to my wife’s accompaniment on the piano & have enjoyed both the purely violin characteristics of the pricipal part & the good form of the whole […] <the interesting harmonies of the accompaniment> […] Please tell Mr. Mendelssohn on his return […] that in October we are going at last to perform his ’Paul’ and that I hope the performance […] will be worthy of the work […]

Autor(en): Spohr, Louis
Adressat(en): David, Ferdinand
Erwähnte Personen: Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Felix
Spohr, Marianne
Erwähnte Kompositionen: David, Ferdinand : Konzerte, Vl Orch, op. 3
Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Felix : Paulus
Erwähnte Orte:
Erwähnte Institutionen:
Zitierlink: www.spohr-briefe.de/briefe-einzelansicht?m=1837092410

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Dieser Brief ist die Antwort auf David an Spohr, 14.09.1837. Der nächste erhaltene Brief dieser Korrespondenz ist David an Spohr, 01.07.1839.
[Ergänzungen 05.04.2022: Ergänzungen von Druck 1 gegenüber Druck 2 sind mit dreieckigen Klammern < > gekennzeichnet, Ergänzungen von Druck 2 gegenüber Druck mit doppelten runden Klammern (( )).
Angaben nach Druck 2: „A.L.S., 2pp. 4to, Cassel, Sept. 24, 1837. To Ferdinand David“.]

Kommentar und Verschlagwortung, soweit in den Anmerkungen nicht anders angegeben: Karl Traugott Goldbach (25.04.2017). Zunächst nach Druck 1 ediert; Ergänzung nach Druck 2 (05.04.2022).

[…] ((Thank you very much for the kind dedication of your Concerto)) […] I have already ((practised it a bit and)) played it several times to my wife’s accompaniment on the piano & have enjoyed both the purely violin characteristics of the pricipal part & the good form of the whole […] <the interesting harmonies of the accompaniment> […] Please tell Mr. Mendelssohn on his return […] that in October we are going at last to perform his ’Paul’ and that I hope the performance […] will be worthy of the work […]

[…] I have already […] played it several times to my wife‘s accompaniment on the piano & have enjoyed both the purely violin characteristics of the pricipal part & the good form of the whole […]
Please tell Mr. Mendelssohn on his return with my regards that in October we are going at last to perform his „Paul“ & that I hope the performance into which we shall put all our powers & means, will be worthy of the work […]