Sarah Zierle Levy

... A talented keyboard player, she was the favorite pupil of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach and supported the widow of Carl Philip Emmanuel Bach. She performed the harpsichord part at the premiere of his Concerto for Fortepiano and Harpsichord by Carl Philip Emmanuel Bach, and probably commissioned the piece. She took a strong interest in the musical education of her great-nephew Felix Mendelssohn, recommending Zelter as his teacher. Her unique collection of Bach manuscripts was left to the Berlin Singakademie, in whose concerts she often performed. It was she who gave the manuscript of Bach's St. Matthew Passion to Mendelssohn in 1825; the result was that he led the modern premiere (the first performance since the death of Bach) in 1829, contributing more than any other event to the 19th-Century "Bach Revival."...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itzig_family#Sarah_Itzig_.281761-1854.29

See also https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200156436/

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