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Lieder ; Songs ; For piano ; Scores featuring the piano ; For 1 player ; For cello, piano arr ; Scores featuring the cello ; For 2 players ; For piano, harmonium arr ; Scores featuring the harmonium ; For piano 4 hands arr ; Scores featuring the piano 4 hands ; For 4 recorders arr ; Scores featuring the recorder ; For 4 players ; For violin, cello, piano arr ; For 3 players ; Scores featuring the violin ; For organ arr ; Scores featuring the organ.
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Free limit reached You have exceeded your free account download limit for today. Lieder ; Songs ; For piano ; Scores featuring the piano ; For 1 player ; For cello, piano arr ; Scores featuring the cello ; For 2 players ; For piano, harmonium arr ; Scores featuring the harmonium ; For piano 4 hands arr ; Scores featuring the piano 4 hands ; For 4 recorders arr ; Scores featuring the recorder ; For 4 players ; For violin, cello, piano arr ; For 3 players ; Scores featuring the violin ; For organ arr ; Scores featuring the organ. The first volume was published by Novello in London as Original Melodies for the Pianoforte , but the later volumes used the title Songs Without Words. But as in Op 30, several pieces were written for other women, including the pensive No 2, for the soprano Henriette Grabau, and the brilliantly arpeggiated No 3, for the eighteen-year-old Clara Wieck. In , Fanny wrote in a letter "My birthday was celebrated very nicely Mendelssohn's own italics [2].
Editor Julius Rietz — Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdys Werke , Serie 11 pp. I provide the original scanned version and the filtered, because the filter does some changes smoothening, sharpening borders and some portions of the scan get lost sometimes when they are too small e.
You may ask me for a manually cleaned version. Editor Friedrich August Roitzsch — Editor Theodor Kullak This file is part of the Sibley Mirroring Project. Felix has given me a 'song without words' for my album he has lately written several beautiful ones. What the music I love expresses to me, is not thought too indefinite to put into words, but on the contrary, too definite.
Mendelssohn's own italics [2].
Mendelssohn also wrote other Songs Without Words not collected in volumes, and published only in recent years. Furthermore, original drafts exist for many of the 'Songs' many of which differ quite substantially from the eventually published versions. The titles attributed to some of the Songs below were given by Mendelssohn himself.
Book 2 was dedicated to Elisa von Woringen.
Song number 2 was written for his sister Fanny to celebrate the birth of her son in Song number 6 was given the title Duetto by Mendelssohn, since two melodies were written to represent two singers. It was composed in Frankfurt in June , soon after he had met his future wife.
Book 3 was dedicated to Rosa von Woringen. Book 4 was dedicated to Sophia Horsley. Book 5 was dedicated to Clara Schumann. The Spinnerlied has also been given the nickname the "Bee's Wedding" since the busy accompaniment to the melody resembles the buzzing of bees. Book 6 was dedicated to Sophie Rosen.
A piece in D major for cello and piano, written by Mendelssohn around , was published for the first time after his death. It was designated opus and entitled Song Without Words.
It is not related to any of the piano pieces. A piece for piano in E minor by Mendelssohn was published after his death under Op.
Title, Songs without Words. Composer, Mendelssohn, Felix. Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No. Op I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No 6 in A flat major, 'Duetto': Andante[3'08] What quiet eloquence Shelley achieves in the sixth of the Songs without Words (Book 2) Published in , the third volume of Lieder ohne Worte, Op 38, was to the Dance') and Mozart's duet 'Là ci darem la mano' from Don Giovanni. Mendelssohn: Songs without words.
Mendelssohn made piano duet arrangements of a number of the songs, namely those that became Book 5 and the first song of Book 6, which he presented to Queen Victoria in One such example is the arrangement of 22 of the songs by Mendelssohn's student, the German violist Friedrich Hermann — , for violin and piano. This was based on songs 1—3 of Book I, Op.
Vial, started to play it in Paris on 9 April [14] but Liszt became ill during the performance. Ferruccio Busoni planned to play it in London with Egon Petri , but died before the plan could be realised. There are also examples of recordings of transcriptions, for solo instrument and piano accompaniment, of Mendelssohn lieder written for the voice, which have been entitled "Songs Without Words", for instance by Mischa Maisky.
No such arrangements were however made, or so titled, by Mendelssohn himself. Fanny Mendelssohn's early collections of piano works opp. Other composers who were inspired to produce similar sets of pieces of their own included Charles-Valentin Alkan the five sets of Chants , each ending with a barcarolle , Anton Rubinstein , Ignaz Moscheles and Edvard Grieg his 66 Lyric Pieces.