12 Songs by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with texts in Italian French and German. Mozart???s brilliant piano technique and his intimate knowledge of beautiful singing is combined to create cameos of human psychology such as reverence infatuation humor jealously and playfulness all in masterful songs. Includes word-by-word translations of the Italian French and German text as well as a translation into the International Phonetic Alphabet.

Mozart's lieder reveal him to be a dramatist in miniature. Even if he failed to cultivate this genre systematically he nevertheless directed his creative powers toward the lied at all stages of his career. His first effort (now lost) was written at the age of six or seven and he took up the genre again and again at irregular intervals down to the final year of his life. None the less Mozart usually chose to write a lied only when there was a special occasion for doing so. Even the preface to the firt complete edition of his lieder published in 1799 by Breitkopf & Härtel refers to them as 'occasional pieces' as does the Leipzig Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung inthe same year. Mozart himself doubtless regarded these ingenious little works as 'pieces for friends' and was not disposed to think of them as particularly significant. Urtext of the New Mozart Edition Singing score with piano reduction English translations of the texts

Soprano lirico/drammatico - Lyric to Full Soprano-A selection of 36 arias for voice and piano with plot synopses and translations in Italian and English.A selection of 36 arias for voice and piano with plot synopses and translations in Italian and English.