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Songs for voice and piano : 79 works / Felix Mendelssohn ; from Breitkopf & Härtel's Complete works edition, edited by Julius Rietz.

Author/creator Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847
Other author/creatorRietz, Julius, 1812-1877, editor.
Other author/creatorAppelbaum, Stanley translator, editor.
Included WorkHensel, Fanny Mendelssohn, 1805-1847. Songs. Selections.
Format Musical Score and Print
Publication InfoMineola, NY : Dover Publications, 2002.
Description1 score (xviii, 174 pages) ; 31 cm
Subject(s)
Uniform titleSongs. Selections
Contents Zwölf Gesänge = Twelve songs, op. 8 : Minnelied = Love song ; Das heimweh = Homesickness ; Italien = Italy ; Erntelied = Harvest Song ; Pilgerspruch = Pilgrim' s Adage ; Frühlingslied = Spring song ; Maienlied = May song ; Hexenlied = Witches' song [or: Anderes maienlied = second May song] ; Abendlied = Evening song ; Romanze = romance ; Im grünen = Outdoors ; [Duett:] Suleika und Hatem = [Duet:] Suleika and Hatem -- Zwölf Lieder = Twelve songs, op. 9 : Frage = Question ; Geständniss = Confession ; Wartend = Waiting ; Im frühling = In the spring ; Im herbst = In the fall ; Scheidend = Departing ; Sehnsucht = Longing ; Früjlingsglaube = Faith in Springtime ; Ferne = Distance ; Verlust = Loss ; Entsagung = Renunciation ; Die nonne = The nun -- Sechs Gesänge = Six songs, op. 19 (19a) : Frühlingslied = Spring song ; Das erste Veilchen = The first violet ; Winterlied = Winter song ; Neue Liebe = New love ; Gruss = Greeting ; Reiselied = Traveler's song -- Sechs Gesänge = Six songs, op. 34 : Minnelied = Love song ; Auf Flühlingslied = Spring song ; Suleika = Suleika ; Sonntagslied = Sunday song ; Reiselied = Traveler's song -- Sechs Gesänge = Six songs, op. 47 : Minnelied = Love song ; Morgengruss = Morning greeting ; Frühlingslied = Spring song ; Volkslied = Folksong ; Der blumenstrauss = The bouquet (1832) ; Bei der wiege = At the cradle -- Sechs Lieder = Six songs, op. 57 : Altdeutsches lied = Old German song ; Hirtenlied = Shepherd's song ; Suleika = Suleika ; O jugend, o schöne rosenzeit! = O youth, o lovely time of roses! ; Venetianisches gondellied = Venetian gondola song ; Wanderlied = Wayfarer's song -- Sechs Lieder = Six songs, op. 71: Tröstung = Consolation ; Frühlingslied = Spring song ; And die entfernte = To the distant beloved ; Schilflied = Reed song ; Auf der wanderschaft = On a journey ; Nachtlied = Night song -- Sechs Gesänge = Six songs, op. 86 : Es lauschte das laub so dunkelgrün = The dark green leaves used to listen ; Morgenlied = Morning song ; Die liebende schreibt = Letter from a woman in love ; Allnächtlich im traume seh' ich dich = Every night I see you in my dreams ; Der mond = The moon ; Altdeutsches Frühlingslied = Old German Spring song -- Sechs Gesänge = Six songs, op. 99 : Erster Verlust = First loss ; Die sterne schau'n in stiller nacht = In the silent night the stars look down ; Lieblingsplätzchen = Favorite spot ; Das schifflein = The boat (1841) ; Wennsich zwei herzen scheiden = When two hearts separate ; Es weiss und räth es doch keiner = No one knows or guesses -- Drei Lieder für eine tiefe Stimme = Three songs for low voice, op. 84 : Da lieg' ich unter den bäumen = I lie here beneath the trees ; Herbstlied = Autumn song ; Jagdlied = Hunting song -- Zwei Romanzen von Lord Byron = Two romances to texts by Byron : Keine von der erde schönen = There be none of beauty's daughters ; Schlafloser augen leuchte = Sun of the sleepless -- Zwei Gesänge = Two songs: Das Waldschloss = The forest castle ; Pagenlied = Page's song -- Zwei Gesänge = Two songs : Ich hör' ein Vöglein = I hear a songbird ; Todeslied der Bojaren = Death song of the Boyars -- Der Blumenkranz = The garland -- Des Mädchens Klage = The girl's lament -- Seemanns Scheidelied = Sailor's song at parting -- Warnung vor dem Rhein = Warning against the Rhine.
General noteSongs for solo voice and piano. Op. 8, no. 12 for 2 voices and piano.
General note"These translations, strictly literal, are in a line-for-line format that will enable interested readers to visualize the original line and stanza breaks of the German poems that Mendelssohn set"--P. [ii].
General noteSix songs actually composed by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (op. 8, no. 2, 3, and 12, and op. 9, no. 7, 10, and 12).
General note"An unabridged republication of the complete Lieder und Gesänge für eine Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte from Serie 19 of Breitkopf & Härtel's Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's Werke ... (1874-77)"--T.p. verso.
General noteIncludes indexes of first lines and poets.
General noteEditorial note in English.
LanguageGerman words; English translations by Stanley Appelbaum printed separately as text on p. vii-xviii.
ISBN0486421376

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