Lieder ohne Worte, Op.30 (Mendelssohn, Felix)

Ambox notice.pngFor collections of all Mendelssohn's piano pieces with this title, see Lieder ohne Worte.


Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 6 songs
Composition Year 1833-1834
Genre Categories Lieder; Songs; For piano; Scores featuring the piano; For 1 player; For piano, physharmonica; Scores featuring the physharmonica; For 2 players; For guitar, 2 mandolins, mandola (arr); For 4 players (arr); Scores featuring the guitar (arr); Scores featuring the mandolin (arr); Scores featuring the mandola (arr); For cello, piano (arr); Scores featuring the cello (arr); Scores featuring the piano (arr); For 2 players (arr); For piano, harmonium (arr); Scores featuring the harmonium (arr); For piano 4 hands (arr); Scores featuring the piano 4 hands (arr); For voice, piano (arr); For voices with keyboard (arr); Scores featuring the voice (arr); For violin, piano (arr); Scores featuring the violin (arr); For guitar (arr); For 1 player (arr); For organ (arr); Scores featuring the organ (arr); For 4 guitars (arr); For 2 violins, viola, cello (arr); Scores featuring the viola (arr); For violin, cello, piano (arr); For 3 players (arr); For flute, piano (arr); Scores featuring the flute (arr)

Contents

Performances

Recordings

 1. Andante espressivo
#348117 - 4.49MB - 4:54 -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 13369×⇩ - MP3 - Lekro

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⇒ 4 more: 2. Allegro di molto • 3. Adagio non troppo • 4. Agitato e con fuoco • 5. Andante grazioso

 2. Allegro di molto
#348123 - 1.99MB - 2:10 -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 3218×⇩ - MP3 - Lekro

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 3. Adagio non troppo
#348118 - 2.18MB - 2:23 -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 4449×⇩ - MP3 - Lekro

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 4. Agitato e con fuoco
#348119 - 2.59MB - 2:49 -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 2674×⇩ - MP3 - Lekro

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Lekro (2014/10/14)

 5. Andante grazioso
#348120 - 1.90MB - 2:04 -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 2722×⇩ - MP3 - Lekro

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Lekro (2014/10/14)

Performer Pages Vassily Primakov (piano)
Publisher Info. Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Copyright
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Misc. Notes Split and tagged by the uploader from a file containing five Lieder ohne Worte.
Note: The filename for #2 (348123) is incorrect, stating that it is Op.38 No.5
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 1. Andante espressivo
#928444 - 47.99MB - 4:35 -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 159×⇩ - FLAC - Levkitkin

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Levkitkin (2024/8/20)

Performer Pages German Kitkin (piano)
Publisher Info. Lev Kitkin, 2024.
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Sheet Music

Scores

 Complete Score
#988419 - 4.46MB, 17 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 18×⇩ - Royal College o...

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Publisher. Info. London: Mori & Lavenu's New Musical Subscription Library, n.d.[1835]. Plate 3569.
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Misc. Notes Royal College of Music Library, London (GB-Lcm): D2505/8
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 Complete Score (scan) (Preview)
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 Complete Score (lower resolution) (Preview)
#52242 - 4.27MB, 12 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 8093×⇩ - CBo

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Editor Julius Rietz (1812–1877)
Publisher. Info. Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdys Werke, Serie 11 (pp.14-25)
Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1874-82. Plate M.B. 76.
Reprinted Farnborough: Gregg Press, 1968. (#s 109643-644)
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Editor Julius Rietz (1812–1877)
Publisher. Info. Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdys Werke, Serie 11 (pp.14-25)
Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1874-82. Plate M.B. 76.
GDR reissue 1986
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 Complete Score
#53944 - 1.30MB, 10 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 8118×⇩ - CC

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CC (2010/1/23)

Editor Friedrich August Roitzsch (1805–1889)
Publisher. Info. Leipzig: C.F. Peters, n.d.(ca.1880). Plate 6000.
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 Complete Score
#00652 - 1.15MB, 16 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 8273×⇩ - Feldmahler

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Feldmahler (2006/3/04)

Editor Theodor Kullak (1818–1882)
Publisher. Info. Kompositionen für klavier zu zwei Händen, Band I
Leipzig: C.F. Peters, No. 1704a, n.d.(ca.1895). Plate 8727.
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Venetianisches Gondolied (No.6)

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Editor Rudolf Elvers (1924–2011)
Hans-Martin Theopold (1904–2000), fingerings
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Publisher. Info. Deyan Denchev, 2023.
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Misc. Notes Based on the 1981 Henle edition, HN 327.
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Arrangements and Transcriptions

Complete

For Violin and Piano (Hermann)
See: Lieder ohne Worte
For Cello and Piano (Grützmacher)

 Complete Score
#204581 - 2.31MB, 21 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 1622×⇩ - Generoso

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 Cello Part
#204582 - 0.91MB, 9 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 1649×⇩ - Generoso

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Generoso (2012/4/15)

Arranger Friedrich Grützmacher (1832–1903)
Publisher. Info. Leipzig: C.F. Peters, n.d.(ca.1890). Plate 6079.
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For Piano and Harmonium (Lickl)

 Harmonium Part
#356629 - 1.25MB, 8 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 185×⇩ - Ralph Theo Misch

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 Piano Part
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Arranger Carl Georg Lickl (1801–1877)
Publisher. Info. Berlin: N. Simrock, n.d.[1853]. Plate 5359.
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For Piano 4 hands (Czerny)

 Complete Score
#252677 - 1.63MB, 23 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 596×⇩ - Morel

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 Complete Score
#356873 - 10.74MB, 24 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 151×⇩ - Notenquetser

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Notenquetser (2014/12/18)

Editor Carl Czerny (1791–1857)
Publisher. Info. Milan: G. Ricordi, n.d. Plate 34500.
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For Piano 4 hands (Beer)

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Arranger Max Josef Beer (1851–1908)
Publisher. Info. Vienna: Universal Edition, n.d. Plate U.E. 692.
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Selections

For Piano (Battmann)
See: 3 Transcriptions faciles sur Mendelssohn, Op.423, by Battmann

Adagio non troppo (No.3)

For 3 Violins (Grünwald)
See: Violin-Terzette, Vol.3 (No.6)
For Voice and Piano

 Complete Score
#876405 - 13.72MB, 6 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 18×⇩ - Feduol

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Feduol (2023/9/21)

Arranger Unknown
Editor Emily Brontë (1818–1848), English text
Language English
Publisher. Info. Louisville: D.P. Faulds, 1868. Plate 1537.
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For Violin and Piano (Belloc)

 Complete Score and Violin Part
#259694 - 1.37MB, 12 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 1250×⇩ - Schalltrichter

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Schalltrichter (2012/11/23)

Arranger Émile Belloc (1841–1902)
Publisher. Info. 6 Romances sans paroles (No.1)
Paris: Brandus, n.d. Plate B. et Cie. 12312.
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Misc. Notes The arranger was a violinist contemporary with Dancla.
Two versions, one in E (the original key) the other transposed to C major.
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For Guitar (Llobet)

 Complete Score
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Town explorer (2023/4/22)

Arranger Miguel Llobet (1878–1938)
Publisher. Info. La Guitarra 1926, No.6
Buenos Aires: Juan Carlos Anido, 1926.
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For Guitar (Tárrega)

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Arranger Francisco Tárrega (1852–1909)
Publisher. Info. Holograph manuscript, n.d.
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 Complete Score
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Arranger Francisco Tárrega (1852–1909)
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For Organ (Hiles)
See: The Hand Book for the Organ by John Hiles (Issue 10, No.1)

Allegro di molto (No.4)

For 4 Guitars (Lopes)

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 Guitar 1
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 Guitar 2
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 Guitar 3
#175313 - 0.07MB, 1 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 312×⇩ - Elopes

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Arranger Edson Lopes
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For 2 Violins, Viola and Cello (Zakariya)

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⇒ 4 more: Violin 1 • Violin 2 • Viola • Cello

 Violin 1
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 Violin 2
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 Viola
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 Cello
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Arranger Ilay Zakariya
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For Violin, Cello and Piano

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Arranger Unnamed
Editor Naoe Monma (1897–1961)
Publisher. Info. Gesammelte Werke der Weltmusik, Vol.82 (室内楽曲集)
Tokyo: Shunjusha, 1933.
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Venezianisches Gondellied (No.6)

For 2 Mandolins, Mandola and Guitar (Munier)

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Arranger Carlo Munier
Publisher. Info. Milano: Il Plettro, 1910.
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For Violin and Piano (Belloc)
See: 6 Romances sans paroles (No.2)
For Violin and Piano (Hansen)
See: Ungdommens Melodi-Album (Vol.2)
For Guitar (Tárrega)

 Complete Score
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Arranger Francisco Tárrega (1852–1909)
Copyist Miguel Llobet (1878–1938)
Publisher. Info. Manuscript, n.d.
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 Complete Score (300 dpi)
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Arranger Francisco Tárrega (1852–1909)
Publisher. Info. Madrid: Ildefonso Alier, n.d. Plate 5394.
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 Complete Score
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Arranger Francisco Tárrega (1852–1909)
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For Flute and Piano (Noah)

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Arranger Meg Noah
Publisher. Info. Meg Noah, 2024.
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Misc. Notes Arrangement of Lieder ohne Worte, Op.30 No. 6 Venezianisches Gondellied
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General Information

Work Title Lieder ohne Worte
Alternative. Title Songs Without Words
Composer Mendelssohn, Felix
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No. Op.30
Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No. IFM 76
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 6 songs:
  1. Andante espressivo, MWV U 103
    (E-flat major, 39 bars)
  2. Allegro di molto, MWV U 77
    (B-flat minor, 107 bars)
  3. Adagio non troppo, MWV U 104
    (E major, 27 bars)
  4. Agitato e con fuoco, MWV U 98
    (B minor, 145 bars)
  5. Andante grazioso, MWV U 97
    (D major, 46 bars)
  6. Venetianisches Gondollied, Allegretto tranquillo, MWV U 110
    (F-sharp minor, 55 bars)
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. 1833-1834
First Publication. 1835 - Bonn: Simrock // London: Mori & Lavenu // Paris: M. Schlesinger
Dedication Elisa von Woringen
Average DurationAvg. Duration 14-17 minutes
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Romantic
Piece Style Romantic
Instrumentation piano
External Links All Music Guide
Extra Information *See what Schumann wrote about these pieces: → Schumann: Gesammelte Schriften. Grove Music does not list the version with physharmonica.
It is claimed here that No.6 was dedicated to Henriette Voigt (1808–1839)

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