Lied

At the time I was looking, yeah, I was looking on IMSLP, which is a great resource.

When I started though, there were, you know, Fanny Hensel wrote, more than 450 works of music, most of those Lieder, and then most of the rest of them solo piano.

And she published, or there were 11 opuses of her works that were published.

I think seven of those were during her lifetime, and then the next four were shortly after her death by her family members.

"'I see that I have alluded above to his powers upon the violin.

"'These were very remarkable, but as eccentric as all his other accomplishments.' and that he could play pieces and difficult pieces I knew well, because at my request he has played me some of Mendelssohn's Lieder and other favourites.

When left to himself, however, he would seldom produce any music or attempt any recognised air.

Leaning back in his arm-chair of an evening, he would close his eyes and scrape carelessly at the fiddle which was thrown across his knee.

"'I see that I have alluded above to his powers upon the violin.

"'These were very remarkable, but as eccentric as all his other accomplishments.' and that he could play pieces and difficult pieces I knew well, because at my request he has played me some of Mendelssohn's Lieder and other favourites.

When left to himself, however, he would seldom produce any music or attempt any recognised air.

Leaning back in his arm-chair of an evening, he would close his eyes and scrape carelessly at the fiddle which was thrown across his knee.

These were very remarkable, but as eccentric as all his other accomplishments.

That he could play pieces and difficult pieces I knew well, because at my request he has played me some of Mendelssohn's Lieder and other favourites.

When left to himself, however, he would seldom produce any music or attempt any recognised air.

Leaning back in his armchair of an evening, he would close his eyes and scrape carelessly at the fiddle which was thrown across his knee.

These were very remarkable, but as eccentric as all his other accomplishments.

That he could play pieces, and difficult pieces, I knew well, because at my request he had played me some of Mendelssohn's Lieder and other favourites.

When left to himself, however, he would seldom produce any music or attempt any recognised air.

Leaning back in his armchair of an evening, he would close his eyes and scrape carelessly at the fiddle which was thrown across his knee.

Sadly, it did not arrive before I left Berlin, but it arrived there this morning, and when I get back, I will be dubbing it off, and I'm going to do an additional episode featuring Ileana in Artsong.

because there are some magnificent recordings of her as a Lieder-Sängerin.

So it will be Ein Liederabend mit Ileana Kotrubasz, and that will be coming up before the end of the year.

So stay tuned for that.

Finally, I have an additional Puccini selection to bring today's setlist to a close.

In the early days of instrumental music, it was necessary to introduce graces of all sorts because the instruments in use were not capable of sustaining tone for any length of time.

But with the advent of the modern piano, with its comparatively great sustaining power, and also with the advent in vocal music of a new style of singing, German Lieder singing as contrasted with Italian coloratura singing, ornamental tones were used less and less, and when found now are usually written out in full in the score instead of being indicated by signs.

End of chapter six.

Recording by Jennifer Stearns, Concord, New Hampshire.

"'I see that I have alluded above to his powers upon the violin.

"'These were very remarkable, but as eccentric as all his other accomplishments.' and that he could play pieces and difficult pieces I knew well, because at my request he has played me some of Mendelssohn's Lieder and other favourites.

When left to himself, however, he would seldom produce any music or attempt any recognised air.

Leaning back in his arm-chair of an evening, he would close his eyes and scrape carelessly at the fiddle which was thrown across his knee.