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====Düsseldorf==== On Zelter's death in 1832, Mendelssohn had hopes of succeeding him as conductor of the Singakademie; but at a vote in January 1833 he was defeated for the post by [[Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen]]. This may have been because of Mendelssohn's youth, and fear of possible innovations; it was also suspected by some to be attributable to his Jewish ancestry.{{sfn|Mercer-Taylor|2000|pp=112–114}} Following this rebuff, Mendelssohn divided most of his professional time over the next few years between Britain and [[Düsseldorf]], where he was appointed musical director (his first paid post as a musician) in 1833.{{sfn|Todd|2003|pp=285–286}} In the spring of that year Mendelssohn directed the [[Lower Rhenish Music Festival]] in Düsseldorf, beginning with a performance of [[George Frideric Handel]]'s oratorio ''[[Israel in Egypt]]'' prepared from the original score, which he had found in London. This precipitated a Handel revival in Germany, similar to the reawakened interest in J. S. Bach following his performance of the ''St. Matthew Passion''.{{sfn|Mercer-Taylor|2000|p=118}} Mendelssohn worked with the dramatist [[Karl Leberecht Immermann|Karl Immermann]] to improve local theatre standards, and made his first appearance as an opera conductor in Immermann's production of Mozart's ''[[Don Giovanni]]'' at the end of 1833, where he took umbrage at the audience's protests about the cost of tickets. His frustration at his everyday duties in Düsseldorf, and the city's provincialism, led him to resign his position at the end of 1834. He had offers from both Munich and Leipzig for important musical posts, namely, direction of the [[Munich Opera]], the editorship of the prestigious Leipzig music journal the ''[[Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung]]'', and direction of the [[Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra]]; he accepted the latter in 1835.{{sfn|Todd|2001|loc=§4}}{{sfn|Todd|2003|p=303}}
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