لغة الهدف: انجليزي
From Mendelssohn's correspondence with his sister Fanny, apparently the piece was primarily written for her wedding. Because of his accident in England he couldn't come to her wedding and according to Fanny's words she had never received the piece. For the planned publication of organ works, Mendelssohn composed the middle part with the choral evidently again, like he wrote in the letter to his sister on the 25th of July, 1844.