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CHAPTER III LEIPSIC IN 1847 AND 1848—MENDELSSOHN'S DEATH
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I well remember that first year of my stay in Leipsic, when all our interests seemed to centre in the friend we were to lose so soon.
At all times I was proud of my godfather, inordinately1 so, perhaps, when conversation turned on the great kindness which Goethe had lavished2 on his young friend Felix. To know a man who had known Goethe seemed to me like knowing a man who had known Shakespeare, and I was accordingly proud of my godfather. It is not surprising that Goethe, the great dissector3 of human nature, should, with a few masterly touches, have portrayed4 the boy of twelve, and forecast the character of the man. "You know," he said to his friend Rellstab, "the doctrine5 of temperaments6; every one has four in his composition, only in different proportions. Well, this boy, I should say, possesses the smallest possible modicum7 of phlegm, and the maximum of the opposite quality." Whatever that "opposite quality" was which Goethe had in his mind, it was one which kept Mendelssohn on the alert; it was the very essence of life that he was drawing on, alas8! too prodigally9.
Thus, of his own compositions he says in a letter to my father: "How I am to set about writing a calm and quiet piece (as you advised me to do last spring) I really do not know. All that passes through my head in the shape of pianoforte music is about as calm and quiet as Cheapside; and when I sit down to start improvising10 ever so quietly, it is of no use—by degrees I fall back into the old ways."
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