Site: Mendelssohn’s Tree (1 memorial)
EC2, Highwalk
This is on the public high-walk below a north-south covered arcade.
Londonist found another plaque, with the logo of the Corporation of London, in Burnham Beeches which reads as follows:
Felix Jakob Ludwig Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, 1809-1847
An old pollarded tree in this part of Burnham Beeches was reputed to be the favoured haunt of the composer Felix Mendelssohn who regularly visited the Beeches whilst staying with friends in East Burnham. It is thought that parts of Puck and Oberon from ‘A Midsummer night’s dream’ {as composed by Mendelssohn, not the original play written by Shakespeare} were inspired by the mossy slope that was here.
The area was re-dedicated in memory of the composer by the planting of this tree by His Excellency Mr Thomas Matussek, the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany on 20 October 2005 in a year that also celebrates 125 years of the ownership of Burnham Beeches by the Corporation of London.
