Chorus a cappella
SKU:
BR.SON-455
Complete Works.
Composed by Felix
Bartholdy Mendelssohn.
Edited by Ralf Wehner.
Choir; Linen. Complete
Works. Romantic period.
Complete Works. Breitkopf
and Haertel #SON 455.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel (BR.SON-455).
ISBN 9790004803653. 9
x 12
inches.
Between
1834 and 1847 Felix
Mendelssohn Bartholdy
composed a total of 28
songs for mixed voices,
i.e. for two female
(soprano and alto) and
two male (tenor and bass)
voices each. The pieces
are arranged so that they
can be sung by four
individual singers as
well as by smaller
ensembles or large
choirs. The composer had
almost two-thirds of
these works published by
Breitkopf and Hartel in
the collections opp. 41,
48 and 59, combining
partly already existing
and partly newly composed
songs into a loose cycle
of six songs each. The
purpose of such
occasional music was
clear to him: ... the
most natural music of all
is when four people go
for a walk together, in
the forest, or on a boat,
and then immediately
carry the music with them
and in them. The present
volume contains all the
songs published and
unpublished during his
lifetime, as well as
their versions, which owe
their various performance
contexts.
