This article considers Fanny Mendelssohn’s 1825 settings of poems from Goethe’s West-östlicher Divan in their manuscript context. I argue that Mendelssohn draws out narratives ‘Buch Suleika’. She composes a cycle six songs with two revolutions, each charting the path love separation through union to again. Investigation brings her teacher, Carl Friedrich Zelter, into view. The concludes Stammbu...