Anyone know these songs?

[amy]

Hey... does anyone know any answers to the following questions?

a) which movement is Beethoven's Op.28 n.15 off of?
 could it be the Pastorale (symphony)?!

b) Is Mendelssohn's Songs without words Op.38 n.6 under the title of "Lost Happiness"  or somehting else?

thank you

[rachfan]

I can answer your second question.  Mendelssohn himself didn't name his Songs without Words, rather submitted each simply as opus and number.  It was his publishers who applied the fanciful names in order to market the sheet music more easily.  Your Op. 38, No. 6 is often seen under the simple name "Duet" or "Duetto".  Then again, different publishers at different times applied their own titles, so a song might be known by a couple of names depending on whose edition you pick up.  For example, what we know in the U.S. as the "Spinning Song" (Op. 67, No. 4) is also known as "The Bees' Wedding" in parts of Europe.  The only good thing about those names not authored by Mendelssohn is that they help us to more easily recall a specific piece being mentioned, while opus and number might not jog the memory nearly as well.

[e60m5]

The Beethoven question...

I believe Beethoven's Op.28 is just his Sonata in D Major (the Pastorale)... I don't think that there are any numbers to it... However, that's just off the top of my head, and I'm not as familiar with these things as I should be.

A link to the Pastorale symphony...? I'm similarly unsure about that - I would doubt there being a direct thematic link or anything, though - the title "pastorale" was I think given just to describe the feeling of "outdoors-ishness" to the piece. Again, I'm not 100% sure, so someone else will probably be able to confirm these bits of info with better backing than I can.

On another note, the Op.28 is a beautiful sonata...

[amy]

Hey guys.. its amy.
thank you so much for helping me.. i'm all over this site,,and i love it...
Rachfan.. you're  very insightful and knowledgable.. thank you.. i really appreciate it.
and for the others... thank you too

yes.. the duet/duetto is correct...though some have said it was entitled "lost happiness" too even though those are also the op.38 n.2's.
- and the pastorale is correct... sonata in d major ,yes.
thank YOUuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu