Mendelssohn Lieder -for high and medium voice and piano- New Release

Editor: Asti, Eugene

Orchestral scoring : hvoice/mivoice/piano

Product format: singing score, Anthology, Urtext edition

Binding: Paperback

Pages / Format: LXXX, 154 – 30,0 x 23,0 cm

The volume contains 46 previously unknown songs by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy : settings of poems by Scott/ Storck , Matthisson , Hölty , Heine, Gellert and others are waiting to be discovered! From the “ Lied zum Geburtstag meines guten Vaters ” , a joint composition with his sister Fanny and one of Mendelssohn’s first surviving compositions, to works from his period of study with Carl Friedrich Zelter , the songs span his entire period of compositional activity.

Popular texts such as “ Ich denke dein ” by Friedrich von Matthisson (set by composers including Schubert, Beethoven, Weber and Wolf), “ Erinnerung ” by Heinrich Heine (set by Schumann, Cornelius, Franz and others) are now available in Mendelssohn‘s settings. Also included is his only song cycle “ Vier Lieder” of 1830. These four songs are linked by motifs in a dramatic narrative structure.