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Felix Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words

Mendelssohn first referred to a “lied ohne worte” in a letter to his sister Fanny Mendelssohn in 1928. But when the first set was published in London it was given the title Original Melodies for the Pianoforte. Eventually, the name that stuck to these works was the one Mendelssohn had thought of in the first place, and five more sets of Songs Without Words followed in his lifetime (the last two were published posthumously).
They became immensely popular, not least because of the fact that many of the pieces were within the grasp of the amateur musician. Fanny Hensel noted that wherever she played Lieder ohne Worte a pair of young ladies would regularly fall into a faint. Mendelssohn himself has very eloquently summed up the idea behind these works: “People usually complain that music is so ambiguous; that they are doubtful as to what they should think when they hear it, whereas everyone understands words.
For me, it is just the reverse… [Words] seem to me so ambiguous, so indefinite, so open to misunderstanding in comparison with real music which fills one’s soul with a thousand better things than words.”

Sheet Music Downloads:

Title	Key	Published	Type	Level
Songs Without Words - op 19 no 1	E Major	1834	Piece	6
Regrets - op 19 no 2	A Minor	1834	Piece	6
Hunting Song - op 19 no 3	A Major	1834	Piece	7
Confidence - op 19 no 4	A Major	1834	Piece	6
Restlessness - op 19 no 5	F-sharp Minor	1834	Piece	8
Venetian Boat Song - op 19 no 6	G Minor	1834	Piece	6
Contemplation - op 30 no 1	E-flat Major	1834	Piece	7
Unrest - op 30 no 2	B-flat Minor	1834	Piece	7
Consolation - op 30 no 3	E Major	1834	Piece	6
The Wanderer - op 30 no 4	B-flat Minor	1834	Piece	8
The Brook - op 30 no 5	D Major	1834	Piece	8
Venetian Boat Song - op 30 no 6	F-sharp Minor	1834	Piece	6
The Evening Star - op 38 no 1	E-flat Major	1837	Piece	8
Lost Happiness - op 38 no 2	C Minor	1837	Piece	8
The Poet's Harp - op 38 no 3	E Major	1837	Piece	8
Hope - op 38 no 4	A Major	1837	Piece	7
Passion - op 38 no 5	A Minor	1837	Piece	8
Duet - op 38 no 6	A-flat Major	1837	Piece	8
On the Seashore - op 53 no 1	A-flat Major	1841	Piece	7
The fleecy Clouds - op 53 no 2	E-flat Major	1841	Piece	6
Agitation - op 53 no 3	G Minor	1841	Piece	6
Sadness of Soul - op 53 no 4	F Major	1841	Piece	6
Folksong - op 53 no 5	A Minor	1841	Piece	6
The Flight - op 53 no 6	A Major	1841	Piece	7
May Breezes - op 62 no 1	G Major	1844	Piece	6
The Departure - op 62 no 2	B-flat Major	1844	Piece	6
Funeral March - op 62 no 3	E Minor	1844	Piece	6
Morning Song - op 62 no 4	G Major	1844	Piece	6
Venetian Boat Song - op 62 no 5	A Minor	1844	Piece	7
Spring Song - op 62 no 6	A Major	1844	Piece	7
Meditation - op 67 no 1	E-flat Major	1845	Piece	7
Lost Illusions - op 67 no 2	F-sharp Minor	1845	Piece	7
Song of the Pilgrim - op 67 no 3	B-flat Major	1845	Piece	6
Spinning Song - op 67 no 4	C Major	1845	Piece	8
The Stephert's Complaint - op 67 no 5	B Minor	1845	Piece	8
Lullaby - op 67 no 6	E Major	1845	Piece	6
Reverie - op 85 no 1	F Major	1845	Piece	6
The Adieu - op 85 no 2	A Minor	1845	Piece	6
Delirium - op 85 no 3	E Major	1845	Piece	7
Elegie - op 85 no 4	D Major	1845	Piece	7
The Return - op 85 no 5	A Major	1845	Piece	6
Song of the Traveller - op 85 no 6	B-flat Major	1845	Piece	7
Homeless - op 102 no 1	E Minor	1845	Piece	7
Retrospection - op 102 no 2	E Minor	1845	Piece	7
Tarantella - op 102 no 3	C Major	1845	Piece	7
The Sighing Wind - op 102 no 4	G Minor	1845	Piece	7
The Joyous Peasant - op 102 no 5	A Major	1845	Piece	7
Faith - op 102 no 6	C Major	1845	Piece	6

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