Mendelssohn Bartholdy, A.: Songs for Lena

Name: Mendelssohn Bartholdy, A.: Songs for Lena
SKU: N092
Price: 240.00 USD

Series: 19th and Early 20th Centuries Publisher: A-R Editions

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Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy

Songs for Lena

Edited by Eva Mengelkoch

N092 Mendelssohn Bartholdy, A.: Songs for Lena

978-1-9872-0883-2 Keyboard-Vocal Score (2024) 9x12, xxix + 111 pp.

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Abstract

Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1874–1936), grandson of Felix, was an authority on international law who served as one of Germany’s observers to the Treaty of Versailles negotiations in 1919. Though best remembered for his illustrious legal career, he also produced a cornucopia of artistic creations including poems and musical works. At the core of his artistic output are more than eighty songs, thirty-one of which are presented in this edition. The Songs for Lena, written between 1930 and 1936 for Albrecht’s colleague Magdalene “Lena” Schoch (1897–1987), are unified by themes of romantic love, longing, happiness, beauty, and repose, along with extensive nature imagery, and feature poetry in German, French, English, and Latin. In addition to their artistic merit, these previously unpublished songs reflect both the broad cultural resources of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Europe and the composer’s role as the inheritor of a family tradition of great artistic achievement, particularly in music.

Contents

Individual Songs

1. Gasel

2. Tretet ein, hoher Krieger

3. Lied des alten Zauberers

4. Von Liebe

5. Widmung

6. Die Allerschönste in Franken

7. Lied von der Liebe

8. Meine Liebste ist mit Lächeln

9. Noch ein fröhliches Lied

10. Im Volkston

11. In der Nacht

12. Schließe mir die Augen beide . . .

13. Wenn ich mir Lieder singe

14. Wenn zwei sich lieben

15. Song from the Arabian Nights

16. Wynken, Blynken, and Nod

17. Zum 15. Februar 1934 (“Love’s a flower”)

18. Est-ce l’amour?

19. Zum 18. Juni 1934 (“Mes vers fuiraient”)

20. Integer vitae

21. Ferne und Nähe

22. Sonett

23. Hessisch (from Des Knaben Wunderhorn)

Fünf Lieder aus „Des Knaben Wunderhorn“

1. Musikanten bei Nacht

2. Nachtigall

3. Trabe dich, Tierlein, trabe

4. Ich hört ein Fräulein klagen

5. Wie schön blüht uns der Maien

Drei neue Lieder aus dem Wunderhorn

1. Himmelsboten zum Liebchen

2. Lied der Liebe

3. Zum Schluss