LEIPZIG.- The doyen of German Mendelssohn research, Dr. Rudolf Elvers, has collected items regarding composer and conductor Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy over more than four decades. His collection, which he formally presented to the Museum of City History Leipzig in a ceremony at the Old Town Hall, comprises more than 1000 items and is a top-class selection consisting of handwritten sources, drawings, first editions and books. The more than 1000 items include seven handwritten album pages and fragments of compositions, 87 handwritten, partly unpublished letters and documents by Mendelssohn and more than 200 manuscripts from the composer‘s family and social environment. The authors include the Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Cécile Mendelssohn, Max Reger, Clara Schumann and Carl Maria von Weber as well as the composer Anton Wilhelm von Zuckalmaglio. Moreover, several – partly unknown – drawings by Mendelssohn, which show him as a ta