Songs for Voice and Piano

by Mendelssohn, Felix

• ISBN13: 9780486421377
• ISBN10: 0486421376
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-09-19
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

This handsome, convenient compilation contains 89 songs, among them such masterpieces asWartend,Fruuml;hlingsglaube,Neue Liebe,Auf Fluuml;geln des Gesangesand many more, including 6 songs by Mendelssohn's sister, Fanny, plus one duet (Op. 8, No. 12). Includes song settings of lyrics by Byron, Goethe, Schiller, Heine, and other poets.

Table of Contents

Alphabetical List of Song-Text Openings	v
Alphabetical List of Poets	vi
Translations of the Song Texts	vii
Twelve Songs (Op. 8)
Love Song	1	(1)
Homesickness	2	(2)
Italy	4	(2)
Harvest Song	6	(2)
Pilgrim' Adage	8	(1)
Spring Song	9	(3)
May Song	12	(1)
Witches' Song • Second May Song]	13	(4)
Evening Song	17	(1)
Romance	18	(2)
Outdoors	20	(2)
[Duet:] Suleika and Hatem	22	(2)
Twelve Songs (Op. 9)
Question	24	(1)
Confession	25	(1)
Waiting	26	(1)
In the Spring	27	(2)
In the Fall	29	(1)
Departing	30	(2)
Longing	32	(1)
Faith in Springtime	33	(1)
Distance	34	(2)
Loss	36	(1)
Renunciation	37	(2)
The Nun	39	(1)
Six Songs (Op. 19 [19a])
Spring Song	40	(2)
The First Violet	42	(2)
Winter Song	44	(3)
New Love	47	(3)
Greeting	50	(1)
Traveler's Song	51	(5)
Six Songs (Op. 34)
Lone Song	56	(1)
On Wings of Song	57	(3)
Spring Song	60	(2)
Suleika	62	(3)
Sunday Song	65	(2)
Traveler's Song	67	(5)
Six Songs (Op. 47)
Love Song	72	(2)
Morgengruss Greeting	74	(2)
Spring Song	76	(4)
Folksong	80	(1)
The Bouquet (1832)	81	(3)
At the Cradle	84	(2)
Six Songs (Op. 57)
Old German Song	86	(2)
Shepherd's Song	88	(2)
Suleika	90	(4)
Youth, O Lovely Time of Roses!	94	(2)
Venetian Gondola Song	96	(3)
Wayfarer's Song	99	(3)
Six Songs (Op. 71)
Consolation	102	(2)
Spring Song	104	(4)
To the Distant Beloved	108	(1)
Reed Song	109	(3)
On a Journey	112	(2)
Night Song	114	(2)
Six Songs (Op. 86)
The Dark Green Leaves Used to Listen	116	(2)
Morning Song	118	(1)
Letter from a Women in Love	119	(3)
Every Night I See You in My Dreams	122	(2)
The Moon	124	(2)
Old German Spring Song	126	(2)
Six Songs (Op. 99)
First Loss	128	(2)
In the silent night the stars look down	130	(3)
Favorite Spot	133	(1)
The Boat (1841)	134	(3)
When Two Hearts Separate	137	(1)
No One Knows or Guesses	138	(4)
Three Songs for Low Voice (Op. 84)
I Lie Here Beneath the Trees	142	(3)
Autumn Song	145	(4)
Hunting Song	149	(3)
Two Romances to Texts by Byron
There Be None of Beauty's Daughters	152	(3)
Sun of the Sleepless	155	(2)
Two Songs
The Forest Castle	157	(2)
Page's Song	159	(3)
Two Songs
I Hear a Songbird	162	(2)
Death Song of the Boyars	164	(2)
The Garland	166	(3)
The Girl's Lament	169	(3)
Sailor's Song at Parting	172	(2)
Warning Against the Rhine	174