22 JANUARY 1859, Page 11

The good people of Paris are now beginning, ten years

after Men- delssohn's death, to discover that he was a great man. A few months ago, the performance of one-half of Elijah was accomplished by one of the musical societies, and boasted of as a great achievement ; and now, we observe, Mendelssohn's instrumental works are introduced into the concerts of the Conservatoire. Vieux-temps has been playing the posthu- mous Quintet in B flat, and Sainton the violin Concerto ; both, as we learn from the Gazette Musicale, with great applause. Beethoven's Symphonies had not even been heard in Paris, twenty years after they were familiar to the London public; and now the Parisians are vociferous in their enthusiasm. It will be the same thing with the works of Men- delssohn.