Mozart: Complete Songs for High Voice
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- Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
- Instrumentation: Piano, High Voice, Soprano, Orchestra
- Work Language: German
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- Size: 9.1 x 11.8 inches
- Pages: 76
- Urtext / Critical Edition
Description
Mozart's lieder reveal him to be a dramatist in miniature. Even if he failed to cultivate this genre systematically he nevertheless directed his creative powers toward the lied at all stages of his career. His first effort (now lost) was written at the age of six or seven and he took up the genre again and again, at irregular intervals, down to the final year of his life. None the less, Mozart usually chose to write a lied only when there was a special occasion for doing so. Even the preface to the first complete edition of his lieder, published in 1799 by Breitkopf & Härtel, refers to them as "occasional pieces", as does the Leipzig Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung in the same year. Mozart himself doubtless regarded these ingenious little works as "pieces for friends", and was not disposed to think of them as particularly significant.
Works:
- An die Freude, K. 53 (43b)
- "Wie unglücklich bin ich nit", K. 147 (128g)
- "Auf die feierliche Johannisloge", K. 148 (125h)
- "Oiseaux, si tous les ans", K. 307 (284d)
- "Dans un bois solitaire", K. 308 (295b)
- Die Zufriedenheit, K. 349 (367a)
- "Komm, liebe Zither, komm", K. 351 (367b)
- An die Bescheidenheit ("Verdankt sei es dem Glanz der Großen"), K. 392 (340a)
- An die Ensamkeit ("Sei du mein Trost"), K. 391 (340b)
- "Ich würd' auf meinem Pfad", K. 390 (340c)
- Lied zur Gesellenreise, K. 468
- Der Zauberer (K. 472) (1785)
- Die Zufriedenheit (Christian Felix Weiße), K. 473
- Die betrogene Welt, K. 474
- Das Veilchen, K. 476
- Lied der Freiheit, K. 506
- Zwei deutsche Kirchenlieder, K. 343 (336c)
- Die Alte, K. 517
- Die Verschweigung, K. 518
- Das Lied der Trennung, K. 519
- Als Luise die Briefe ihres ungetreuen Liebhabers verbrannte, K. 520
- Abendempfindung an Laura, K. 523
- An Chloe, K. 524
- Des kleinen Friedrichs Geburtstag, K. 529
- Das Traumbild, K. 530
- Die kleine Spinnerin, K. 531
- Lied beim Auszug in das Feld, K. 552
- Sehnsucht nach dem Frühlinge, K. 596
- Der Frühling, K. 597
- Das Kinderspiel, K. 598
- Ridente la clama, K. 152 (210a)
- Ah! spiegarti, oh Dio, K. 178 (417e)
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