Mendelssohn: Volume III – Songs Without Words Urtext Book

Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn: Volume III -Songs Without Words Urtext

When Mendelssohn learned from his publisher Nikolaus Simrock that he was to receive an additional honorarium for a part of his Lieder ohne Worte, he effusively thanked him for this gift. However, the gift that Mendelssohn, in his turn, made to posterity with these Songs Without Words could probably not have been foreseen even by him at the time.

These Original Melodies, Romanzen or Clavierstcke, which only later gained the title Lieder ohne Worte, enjoyed great success during the composers lifetime, and should be included amongst the most rewarding pieces of 19th-century piano literature. Our volume contains the complete Lieder ohne Worte published during his lifetime and posthumously.195 pages.

These tone pictures offer the pianist a wide variety of moods and emotions as well as the means to develop expressiveness in their playing. Edited by Rudolf Elvers and Ernst Herttrich with fingering by Hans-Martin Theopold. Includes: Op. 19, 30, 38, 53, 62, 67, 85, 102.

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Titles Include:

• Song without Words E major op. 19,1
• Song without Words a minor op. 19,2
• Song without Words A major op. 19,3
• Song without Words A major op. 19,4
• Song without Words f sharp minor op. 19,5
• Song without Words (Venetian Gondola Song) g minor op. 19,6
• Song without Words E flat major op. 30,1
• Song without Words b flat minor op. 30,2
• Song without Words E major op. 30,3
• Song without Words b minor op. 30,4
• Song without Words D major op. 30,5
• Song without Words (Venetian Gondola Song) f sharp minor op. 30,6
• Song without Words E flat major op. 38,1
• Song without Words c minor op. 38,2
• Song without Words E major op. 38,3
• Song without Words A major op. 38,4
• Song without Words a minor op. 38,5
• Song without Words (Duetto) A flat major op. 38,6
• Song without Words A flat major op. 53,1
• Song without Words E flat major op. 53,2
• Song without Words g minor op. 53,3
• Song without Words F major op. 53,4
• Song without Words a minor op. 53,5
• Song without Words A major op. 53,6
• Song without Words G major op. 62,1
• Song without Words B flat major op. 62,2
• Song without Words e minor op. 62,3
• Song without Words G major op. 62,4
• Song without Words (Venetian Gondola Song) a minor op. 62,5
• Song without Words (Spring Song) A major op. 62,6
• Song without Words E flat major op. 67,1
• Song without Words f sharp minor op. 67,2
• Song without Words B flat major op. 67,3
• Song without Words C major op. 67,4
• Song without Words b minor op. 67,5
• Song without Words E major op. 67,6
• Song without Words F major op. 85,1
• Song without Words a minor op. 85,2
• Song without Words E flat major op. 85,3
• Song without Words D major op. 85,4
• Song without Words A major op. 85,5
• Song without Words B flat major op. 85,6
• Song without Words e minor op. 102,1
• Song without Words D major op. 102,2
• Song without Words C major op. 102,3
• Song without Words g minor op. 102,4
• Song without Words A major op. 102,5
• Song without Words C major op. 102,6
• Song without Words (Rider’s Song) d minor

AMEB:

Piano / Grade 5 / List C

• Venetian Boat Song No. 6 in G minor from Songs Without Words Op. 19b

Piano / Grade 7 / List C

• Lied ohne Worte in C major No. 3 from Songs Without Words Op. 102
• Lied ohne Worte in Eb major No. 2 from Songs Without Words Op. 53
• Lied ohne Worte in G minor No. 4 from Songs Without Words Op. 102

Piano for Leisure / Certificate of Performance / Open Manual list

• Andante con moto No 1 from Songs without Words Op. 53

Piano for Leisure / Grade 8 / Open Manual list

• Duetto in Ab major No 6 from Songs without Words Op. 38
• Lied ohne Worte in C major No 4 from Songs without Words Op. 67

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

A German composer, conductor, pianist, and organist who already numbered among the most important composers in Europe during his lifetime. While still young he found a unique tonal language. Reflected in his oeuvre, which spans all genres, are the contradictory tendencies of the age Classicism and Romanticism. His endeavours over the course his life to perform the works of Johann Sebastian Bach led to a rediscovery of that composer which continues unabated. His intensive engagement with Bach and his counterpoint influenced his own compositional technique.