A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Nachruf
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NACHRUF, i.e. Farewell. The title given by Mendelssohn to the slow movement which he composed to his Quintet in A, in Paris, after hearing of the death of his great friend Edward Ritz. It replaced a minuet and trio in F♯ and D, the trio in double canon.
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