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The volume contains 46 previously unknown songs by Felix : settings of poems by Scott/ Storck, Matthisson, Hölty, Heine, Gellert and others are waiting to be discovered! From the "Lied zum Geburtstag meines guten Vaters", a joint composition with his sister Fanny and one of Mendelssohn's first surviving compositions, to works from his period of study with Carl Friedrich Zelter, the songs span his entire period of compositional activity.
Popular texts such as "Ich denke dein" by Friedrich von Matthisson (set by composers including Schubert, Beethoven, Weber and Wolf), "Erinnerung" by Heinrich Heine (set by Schumann, Cornelius, Franz and others) are now available in Mendelssohn‘s settings. Also included is his only song cycle " Vier Lieder" of 1830. These four songs are linked by motifs in a dramatic narrative structure.
Appendix I / Anhang I:
Appendix II / Anhang II (Eleven songs in alternative transpositions for high voice / Elf Lieder in alternativen Transponierungen for hohe Stimme):