Favourite dish in exchange for favourite music ╩ this perfectly summarizes the genesis of the Konzertstücke. When the clarinettist Heinrich Joseph Baermann and his son Carl, who also played the basset horn, stopped to pay a visit to Felix MendelssohnBartholdy in 1832, they came to a most curious agreement: they promised their composer friend a generous portion of ''Dampfnudeln'' (steamed dumplings) and ''Rahmstrudel'' (sweet-cheese strudel) that Mendelssohn was mad about, if he were to write a p