Altdeutsches Lied

Song TitleAltdeutsches Lied (Search)
Composer(s):Felix Mendelssohn
Author(s):Heinrich Schreiber
Keyword(s) & Features: Anguish; Appreciation; Being Unappreciated; Birds; Confiding; Conquering; Deer; Expressions; Fading; Fleeing; Forests; Frustration; German; Hearing; Hearts; Ignoring; In Vain; Lamenting; Listening; Loneliness; Longing; Metaphor: Speaker as Nightingale; Music; Nature; Nightingales; Old; One Octave or Less; Pain; Rejection; Remaining; Singing; Solitude; Songs; Sorrow; Sounds; Sweet; Thanking; Tones; Unrequited Love; Wild
First LineEs ist in den Wald gesungen (Search)
Average Duration2:00 (Search)
Year of composition 1839 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttp://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=57327
Larger Work6 Lieder, Op. 57 (Search)
Musical FormStrophic (Search)
Original LanguageGerman (Search)
Score Source https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/3/34/IMSLP52519-PMLP22675-Mendelssohn_Op_57.pdf
Audio Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwuhrXAyLP0
Catalog DesignationOp. 57 no. 1 (Search)
Range: E4 - E5 (Search)
Original KeyE Major (Search)
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