A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Soldatenliebschaft

SOLDATENLIEBSCHAFT—Soldiers' love. A 1-act opera, containing an overture and 16 numbers, written by Mendelssohn in 1821 (his 13th year). The author of the words is unknown. The autograph is in the Mendelssohn archives in the Berlin Library. The work was evidently a favourite with its author, for he proposed to repeat it for the silver wedding of his parents, with an operetta to be written by Fanny, and his own 'Heimkehr aus der Fremde.' It does not appear however to have been then performed.

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