 Upon Mendelssohn 's death Lind wrote , " [ He was ] the only person who brought fulfillment to my spirit , and almost as soon as I found him I lost him again " . In 1849 she established the Mendelssohn Scholarship Foundation , which makes an award to a British resident young composer every two years in Mendelssohn 's memory . The first winner of the scholarship was Arthur Sullivan , then aged 14 , in 1856 . In 1869 Lind erected a plaque in Mendelssohn 's memory at his birthplace in Hamburg . 
