Mendelssohn's 'Song without Words' is the easiest of his original compositions for cello and piano and can be introduced to intermediate students. Our competitively priced edition is intended for educational use.
SKU: HL.49045627
ISBN 9783795712228. UPC: 841886032200. German.
Die Musik von Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy gehort fur viele Chore zum festen und gern gesungenen Repertoire, das vom einfachen romantischen Volkslied bis zum ausgewachsenen Oratorium reicht. Durch alle Chorsparten ist seine Musik bekannt und beliebt. Und dochhat Mendelssohn kaum fur Fraunenchöre geschrieben, obwohl entsprechende Ensembles bereits zu seinen Lebzeichen im 19. Jahrhundert inder Chorlandschaft ein Rolle spielen. Fur die vorliegende Sammlung hat sich Pascal Martine deshalb des Kunstgriffs der Bearbeitung bedient. Als Vorlage dienten Mendelssohns Gesange fur zwei Frauenstimmen und Klavier, die er auf drei Frauenstimmen erweitert hat. Dabei ist die hinzugefugte Stimme so konzipiert, dass die romantische Stimmführung berücksichtigt und Mendelssohns jeweilige Satztechnik logisch erweitert wurde. Die originale Klavierbegleitung wurde beibehalten und tragt so zum liedhaften Charakter dieser Chorbearbeitungen bei. Contents: Ich wollt' meine Lieb' ergosse sich; Gruss; Herbstlied; Wie kann ich froh und lustig sein; Maiglockchen und die Blümelein; Abendlied; Sonntagsmorgen; Denn in seiner Hand ist, was die Erde bringt.
SKU: HL.394346
ISBN 9781705157688. UPC: 196288032410. 6.75x9.0x0.121 inches.
During her lifetime, Fanny Hensel was overshadowed by her brother Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, who was three years her junior, and for a long time she was regarded merely as an occasional composer. It was only when the Mendelssohn Bartholdy family's extensive collection of sheet music came into the possession of the Berlin State Library that the diversity of her compositional output became apparent: all together, Fanny Hensel wrote over 400 compositions, including piano pieces and especially songs, mostly for solo voice with piano accompaniment, but also many choral works, chamber music and some orchestral works. The name SAM-Klang takes the three voice parts from the arrangements -- Soprano, Alto and Men -- and combines it with the Scandinavian and German words for “sound†to create the portmanteau word “sound together†or “harmony.†The series offers basic and advanced choral repertoire. In addition to new repertoire and new arrangements, you will also find essential parts of the classical German, Scandinavian, French and English SATB repertoire, carefully and considerately reworked for SAM. The arrangements retain the characteristic features of the original movements and have almost the same richness of timbre, resulting in works which sound nearly unchanged to an audience. Piano reductions of all choral movements facilitate rehearsal preparation. The arrangements offer development opportunities for all voice sections, bringing new life and new quality to SAM choir work. SAM-Klang enables youth choirs to gain access to classical choral literature and ensures that mixed choirs who face challenges in finding singers for all male voice parts continue to have access to well-loved repertoire.
SKU: BR.SON-442
ISBN 9790004803509. 10 x 12.5 inches.
This volume contains three reworkings and orchestrations of religious works by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy which were originally set for smaller ensembles (solo voices, four-part chorus and organ). They were composed at different times and for different occasions, two of them as commissions. The anthem ,,Why, o Lord, delay forever MWV A 19 was originally the sacred vocal piece MWV B 33, published in England in 1841 with the additional title ,,[…] The Thirteenth Psalm, and in Germany in the same year as ,,Lass, o Herr, mich Hilfe finden with the title ,,Drei geistliche Lieder which was composed at the suggestion of the English literature and music lover Charles B. Broadley who also provided the paraphrase of the psalm text. After Mendelssohn had refused an initial request by Broadley to furnish the anthem post festum with an organ prelude, the composer did not want to turn down a second request to orchestrate the work and he even expanded the existing material with a lengthy closing fugue involving additional trumpets and timpani. The ,,Ave Maria MWV B 19 was written in connection with Mendelssohn's appointment as municipal music director, a position which at the same time included the responsibility for the musical organization of church services. The instrumentation of the work with an accompaniment of two clarinets and two bassoons as well as low strings was due to the fact that the organ in Dusseldorf's principal church St. Lambertus was out of order for an extended period of time, and Mendelssohn considered this solution explicitly only as a surrogate for the organ should there be none. A further psalm paraphrase in English, this time by William Bartholomew, of the hymn ,,Hear my prayer MWV B 49 was set to music in early 1844; the orchestration of the organ part commissioned by the distinguished Dublin musician Joseph Robinson was not completed until 1847 so that the premiere finally only took place after Mendelssohn's death. In the further course of the century ,,Hear my prayer would, particularly in the version with organ accompaniment, come to enjoy great popularity in Great Britain and Ireland.
SKU: BR.SON-452
ISBN 9790004803622. 10 x 12.5 inches.
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy lived in the heyday of men's choruses. Early on, the composer had encountered the genre by way of his teacher Carl Friedrich Zelter and his Berlin Liedertafel, founded in 1809, had then gathered his own experience from the Leipzig Liedertafel societies, and was in contact with a number of male choral societies throughout his lifetime. Nevertheless, his relation to male choral singing was characterised not only by his inclination, but also by critical distance. The festive compositions for male chorus and orchestra forming the content of this volume are all commissioned works, two of which, the so-called Gutenberg-Kantate and the Festgesang an die Kunstler on a text by Friedrich Schiller, also appeared in print during Mendelssohn's lifetime.
SKU: BT.2008-14-400-M
ISBN 9789043137072. German.
Meisterwerke der deutschen Romantik umfasst ausgewählte Werke einiger der bedeutendsten Komponisten dieser Stilrichtung. Neben Franz Schubert, Carl Maria von Weber, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy und Robert Schumnann als Vertreter derHochromantik, ist das spätere 19. Jahrhundert durch Richard Wagner, Carl Reinecke und Johannes Brahms repräsentiert. Auf der beiliegenden CD ist sowohl eine vollständige Aufnahme jedes Stückes, als auch die Begleitung, zu der die Solostimme gespieltwerden kann, zu hören.
SKU: CA.9705000
ISBN 9790007131265.
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's Lieder ohne Worte arranged for choir and organ by Bernd Stegmann The individual pieces of the collection adhere to the model or distance themselves from it considerably. In the latter cases it is rather a question of a game played with the building blocks of the original. Thus the songs (Lieder) with words are not transcriptions in the usual sense. All of the texts have been chosen so that they do not result in a narrowing of the denomination. The goal of the collection is to enrich the choral repertoire for worship services and concerts with an interesting color.
SKU: M7.ART-42203
ISBN 9783866422032.
Die vorliegende Klassik-Sammlung bietet eine spannende Auswahl von Meisterwerken berühmter Komponisten der Romantik wie u.a. Chopin, Schubert, Grieg, Schumann, Mussorgski und Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. Viele Klavierschüler und Hobbypianisten haben den Wunsch, weltberühmte klassische Melodien selbst zu spielen und vorzutragen. Die vorliegenden Arrangements in leicht spielbarer Fassung ermöglichen dies und bleiben dennoch so nahe wie möglich am Original. Diese Sammlung enthält bekannte Kompositionen, bietet aber auch die Gelegenheit, weniger bekannte Werke kennenzulernen und stellt somit einen reichen Fundus für Klavierunterricht und Hobby dar. Die Stücke sind mit Tempoangaben und Fingersätzen versehen und für Spieler*innen aller Altersstufen ab dem 3. bis 4. Unterrichtsjahr sowie für erwachsene Wiedereinsteiger geeignet. Als zusätzliche Lernhilfe dient der zum Buch erhältliche kostenlose Download mit Audio-Dateien aller Werke. Allen Kindern, Jugendlichen und Erwachsenen wünschen wir viel Freude bei der Interpretation dieser wundervollen Melodien.
SKU: BR.CHB-5234-02
ISBN 9790004411537. 7.5 x 10.5 inches. German.
Madame Hensel, Mendelssohn's sister, whose eyes speak intelligence and profundity''. This diary entry made by Robert Schumann in June 1843 succinctly but fittingly characterizes Fanny Hensel, without a doubt the most significant woman composer of the 19th century. Born in Hamburg on 14 November 1805, she was the eldest sister of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and the granddaughter of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. In 1829 she married the Prussian court painter and occasional poet Wilhelm Hensel (1794-1861). After her sudden death in Berlin on 14 May 1847 as a result of a stroke, the music journalist Ludwig Rellstab poignantly wrote that she shared the brotherhood ef talent with her famous sibling.Fanny Hensel was given the same excellent and comprehensive musical training as her precocious brother, including composition lessons with Goethe's friend Carl Friedrich Zelter. Felix and Fanny not only loved each other tenderly, but they also maintained an intensive, life-long exchange of ideas which proved musically profitable to both of them. However, it was only in 1846 that Mendelssohn gave up his resistance to Fanny's publication plans. And so, just shortly before her death, she was able to publish a carefully selected sample of her songs and piano pieces.Not only these pieces, but also a few orchestral and chamber-music works (e.g. the String Quartet in E flat major, KM 2255) and, in particular, choral music occupy an important position in her oeuvre. Most of her choral works were written in 1846, and she was able to rehearse them with the chorus she conducted at the famous Sunday Concerts in the Mendelssohn home. She had six of these choral songs published in a revised version under the title Gartenlieder Op. 3 by the Berlin music publisher Bote & Bock. The title of the Gartenlieder brings to mind Mendelssohn's well-known Lieder im Freien zu singen (Opera 41, 48, 59; ChB 4763-4780), published before 1846. But, as far as the quality of their melodic writing, the compositional technique, and the choice of texts are concerned, as well as the perfect balance between folk-like simplicity and polished design, they are as outstanding as the works of her brother.Fanny Hensel's choral works not only stand up to comparison with any of the rich and varied choral works of the Romantic era - they also rank among the best. Very likely to become hits! (Musica).
SKU: CA.960900
ISBN 9790007096335.
In 2009 the Staatsbibilothek zu Berlin succeeded in obtaining an important autograph of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from a private owner. In the spring of 1837 he composed his four Quartets for Men's choir a cappella, whose texts were written by Goethe and Heine. In the autograph the lied Dreistigkeit is in a version unknown until now. It is published here for the first time. The present edition, published in cooperation with the Staatsbibliothek, presents all four of the pieces in high quality color facsimiles, as well as in a modern engraved edition.
SKU: HL.49008142
ISBN 9790001121705. UPC: 840126938913. 0.4 inches. German.
This cycle arranged by Aribert Reimann of eight Lieder by Mendelssohn contains well-known items like: 'Leise zieht durch mein Gemut' and 'Auf Flugeln des Gesangs'. The songs are joined to each other by specially composed intermezzi which attempt - with refer-ence to the thematic material of the songs - to re-interpret Mendelssohn's idiom for our time. '... oder soll es Tod bedeuten' ist the final work in Reimann's series of adaptions of 19th-century songs for voice and string quartet. Franz Schubert's 'Mignon' (ED 8466) has already been published. All these cycles have been recorded by Juliane Banse and the Cherubini Quartet and are available on CD (TUD 7063).
