A fact from Die schöne Melusine appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 17 January 2018 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Felix Mendelssohn was so fascinated by a particular singer playing the role of a mermaid that he was inspired to write the overtureThe Fair Melusine(legend pictured)?
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not 1834...? Composed 1833 (finished November 14), revised 1835. Premiered (first version) 1834, but unless we are taking terms of art from opera (where a "1840 opera" is an opera premiered in 1840 even when the composer died 100 years earlier, e.g.) it's a good thing to distinguish "composed", "premiered", "first published". Schissel | Sound the Note!17:21, 21 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
