13 LIEDER FOR HIGH AND MEDIUM VOICE AND PIANO.
COMPOSER / AUTHOR: MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY, FELIX

DETAILED INSTRUMENTATION: HIGH VOICE, MEDIUM VOICE, PIANO
VOLUME / SERIES: BÄRENREITER URTEXT
EDITOR: ASTI, EUGENE
PRODUCT FORMAT: SINGING SCORE, ANTHOLOGY, URTEXT EDITION
INSTRUMENTATION: HIGH VOICE, MEDIUM VOICE, PIANO
PUBLISHER: BÄRENREITER
BINDING: PAPERBACK
PRINT RUN: 1ST PRINTING 2008

DESCRIPTION:
-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.

-TO MARK THE COMPOSER’S 200TH ANNIVERSARY IN 2009, THE EDITOR EUGENE ASTI, PROFESSOR AT THE GUILDHALL SCHOOL OF MUSIC IN LONDON , PRESENTS A SUBSTANTIAL REPERTOIRE OF SONGS IN A CRITICAL-PRACTICAL EDITION. THE WIDE RANGE OF FORMS AND COLOURS CONTAINED IN THIS COLLECTION CHALLENGES THE ACCEPTED VIEW OF MENDELSSOHN’S MOSTLY STROPHIC SONG SETTINGS BEING COMPARATIVELY STRAIGHTFORWARD STYLISTICALLY.

- INCLUDES PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN SONGS BY MENDELSSOHN AND VARIANT VERSIONS
- ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF THE SONG TEXTS BY RICHARD STOKES
- TRANSPOSITION OF SONGS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN FOR MEDIUM VOICE TO HIGH VOICE RANGE
- COMPLETION OF PIECES SURVIVING IN FRAGMENTARY FORM
- DETAILED INTRODUCTION AND CRITICAL COMMENTARY (ENG/GER)

CONTENTS:
· PREFATORY NOTE / GELEITWORT
· INTRODUCTION
· EINLEITUNG
· BIBLIOGRAPHY
· SONG TEXTS / LIEDTEXTE
· LIED ZUM GEBURTSTAGE MEINES GUTEN VATERS
· 'AVE MARIA! JUNGFRAU MILD' (SIR WALTER SCOTT, GERMAN VERSION BY / DEUTSCH VON D. ADAM
STORCK)
· 'RASTE, KRIEGER! KRIEG IST AUS' (SIR WALTER SCOTT, GERMAN VERSION BY / DEUTSCH VON D.
ADAM STORCK)
· 'PAUVRE JEANNETTE QUI CHANTOIS SI BIEN' (JEAN-PIERRE CLARIS DE FLORIAN)
· DIE NACHTIGALL
· DER VERLASSENE (FIRST VERSION / ERSTE FASSUNG)
· DER VERLASSNE (REVISED VERSION / REVIDIERTE FASSUNG)
· DER VERLASSNE ('RAUCH' MANUSCRIPT VERSION / FASSUNG NACH DEM 'RAUCH'-MANUSKRIPT)
· 'VON ALLEN DEINEN ZARTEN GABEN'
· WIEGENLIED
· 'SANFT WEH`N IM HAUCH DER ABENDLUFT' (FRIEDRICH VON MATTHISSON)
· FAUNENKLAGE (SALOMON GEßNER)
· 'SICHELN SCHALLEN, ÄHREN FALLEN' (LUDWIG CHRISTOPH HEINRICH HÖLTY)
· 'TANZT DEM SCHÖNEN MAI ENTGEGEN' (LUDWIG CHRISTOPH HEINRICH HÖLTY)
· 'AM SEEGESTAD, IN LAUEN VOLLMONDSNÄCHTEN' (FRIEDRICH VON
· 'DURCH FICHTEN AM HÜGEL' (FRIEDRICH VON MATTHISSON)
· 'ICH DENKE DEIN, WENN DURCH DEN HAIN' (FRIEDRICH VON MATTHISSON)
· 'RAUSCHE LEISE, GRÜNES DACH' (ALBERT GRAF VON SCHLIPPENBACH)
· 'SELTSAM, MUTTER, GEHT ES MIR' (JOHANN LUDWIG CASPER)
· DER WASSERFALL (CARL KLINGEMANN)
· GLOSSE (FRIEDERIKE ROBERT)
· 'WEINEND SEH` ICH IN DIE NACHT'
· CHARLOTTE TO WERTHER (WILLIAM FREDERICK COLLARD)
· 'WEITER, RASTLOS, ATEMLOS'
· [VIER LIEDER (1839)]:
· [1.] DER TAG (LUDWIG ERNST FRIEDRICH ROBERT)
· [2.] REITERLIED
· [3.] ABSCHIED
· [4.] DER BETTLER
· ABSCHIED
· REISELIED (JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND)
· WEIHNACHTSLIED (CHRISTIAN FÜRCHTEGOTT GELLERT)
· 'WARUM SIND DENN DIE ROSEN SO BLASS?' (HEINRICH HEINE)
· ANDRES MAILIED, FROM / AUS: 'DES KNABEN WUNDERHORN' (FIRST VERSION / ERSTE FASSUNG)
· HÜT DU DICH, FROM / AUS: 'DES KNABEN WUNDERHORN' (SECOND VERSION OF / ZWEITE FASSUNG VON
ANDRES MAILIED)
· DIE FREUNDIN (MARIANNE VON WILLEMER), FROM / AUS: JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, 'POETISCHER
NACHLASS'