A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Son and Stranger, The

by George Grove

SON AND STRANGER, THE. The title of the English version, by H. F. Chorley, of Mendelssohn's 'Heimkehr aus der Fremde' (Return from abroad), produced at the Haymarket Theatre, London, July 7, 1851.

The original piece was by Klingemann, and was written and composed in London between Sept. 10 and Oct. 4, 1829, for the silver wedding of Mendelssohn's parents on the following Dec. 26. The parts were cast as follows:—Lisbeth, Rebecka; Kauz, Devrient; Hermann, Mantius; and the Mayor, Hensel, for whom a part was written all on one note, F—which however he could not catch.

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