FAIRY FLOWER-TRUMPETS.
A recent- programme book contains an interesting anecdote of the origin of Mendelssohn's Uapriccio in E minor, op. 16, and as the piece is always in request, some inspiration may be drawn from the story for the young stodent. Mendelssohn was staying with a Mr Taylor at Coed-du (Wales), one of whose daughters writes: —" There was in my sister Honom's garden a pretty creeping plant, new at that time, covered with little trumpet-like flowers. Mendelssohn was struck with it', and played for her the music which (he said; the fairies might play on those trumpets. When he wrote out the piece, he drew a little branch of that flower all up the margin of the paper." The }d«i of the fairy nower-trnmpats is delight-fully suggested in the music, but too rarely conveyed to the listener by the executant.
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Press, Volume LV, Issue 10041, 20 May 1898, Page 5
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