《门德尔松《无词歌 第一集》 《无词歌 第二集》 《无词歌 第三集》 《无词歌 第四集》 《无词歌 第五集》 《无词歌 第六集》 《无词歌 第七集》 《无词歌 第八集》 /吉泽金钢琴》
類型专辑
年份1961
簡介
Songs Without Words
Songs Without Words(Lieder ohne Worte) is a series of short lyricalpianopieces by theRomanticcomposerFelix Mendelssohn, written between 1829 and 1845. His sisterFanny Mendelssohnand other composers also wrote pieces in the same genre.
Music
The eight volumes ofSongs Without Words, each consisting of six "songs" (Lieder), were written at various points throughout Mendelssohn's life, and were published separately. The piano became increasingly popular in Europe during the early nineteenth century, when it became a standard item in many middle-class households. The pieces are within the grasp of pianists of various abilities and this undoubtedly contributed to their popularity. This great popularity has caused many critics to under-rate their musical value.[citation needed]
The first volume was published byNovelloin London (1832) asOriginal Melodies for the Pianoforte, but the later volumes used the titleSongs Without Words.[1]
The works were part of theRomantictradition of writing short lyrical pieces for the piano, although the specific concept of "Songs Without Words" was new. Mendelssohn's sisterFannywrote a number of similar pieces (though not so entitled) and, according to some music historians, she may have helped inspire the concept. The titleSong Without Wordsseems to have been Felix Mendelssohn's own invention. In 1828, Fanny wrote in a letter "My birthday was celebrated very nicely ... Felix has given me a 'song without words' for my album (he has lately written several beautiful ones)."[1]
Mendelssohn himself resisted attempts to interpret theSongstoo literally, and objected when his friend Marc-André Souchay sought to put words to them to make them literal songs:
What the music I love expresses to me, is not thought tooindefiniteto put into words, but on the contrary, toodefinite. (Mendelssohn's own italics)[2]
Mendelssohn also wrote otherSongs Without Wordsnot collected in volumes, and published only in recent years. Furthermore, original drafts exist for many of the 'Songs' many of which differ quite substantially from the eventually published versions.[3]In 2008, the Italian pianistRoberto Prossedarecorded a collection of Mendelssohn'sSongs Without WordsforDecca Recordstotalling 56Lieder, some of them never recorded before.