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 HISTORY OF MENDELSSOHN'S "ELIJAH."

" No. 9 [7] . Pray let the beginning stand as in the Bible, viz. : —

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��and if the end ' and thus harm thee ' can be spared, and it can finish with the words ' against a stone,' I should like it better.

" No. 10 [between 7 and 8], in the middle I propose again to alter the notes in order to keep the Bible version : —

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��tain thee, and thou shall want nothing, nor she and her house, x\xio\ig'b,SK.

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��• Mendelssohn K'^eatly altered the "Widow" scene before the oratorio was published.

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