Mendelssohn, Felix

International Music Score Library Project [IMSLP] entry: Felix Mendelssohn

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) was the famous German composer of many well-known concertos, symphonies, piano and orchestral pieces, songs, oratorios and much chamber music. On his visits to London, he was a favourite of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.

Piece	MP3	Midi	Genre
Christmas Pieces, Op 72, no 1		MIDI	CD1 piano classical
	Mendelssohn wrote his Six Christmas Pieces, Op 72, in 1842 as Christmas presents to young friends in London. They're more like his Songs Without Words than like, say, Christmas carols. In Germany, they're retitled 6 Kinderstuecke, or Childrens' Pieces. The first is marked Allegro non troppo. Sequenced mostly from the Novello, Ewer edition, but I have several copies. I may sequence the other five pieces at some stage; but at the time I wanted a short piece for CD1
Barcarole		MIDI	piano classical
	This gently-rocking and slightly mysterious barcarole, marked Allegretto non troppo, is in the same style as the Venetian gondola songs in the Songs without Words, but is not in that series. I sequenced it in 2013 from the Novello edition of Mendelssohn's collected piano works, where there is no date, editor, opus number or copyright notice given. The piece also seems to be unknown to IMSLP.
---	For another Mendelssohn piece, see Gustav Lange's version of On Wings of Song, a well-known setting by Mendelssohn of an 1827 poem by Heinrich Heine [1797-1856], composed in 1834 and published as Op 34 no 2 in 1837.

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