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Venetian Gondola Songs - Piano
Catalog: HN1172
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Description
"This is Italy. Everything that I have considered as life's greatest joy, ever since I have been capable of thought, has now begun, and I am relishing it." Thus begins a letter of 11 October 1830 from Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847) to his parents and siblings, sent from Venice. In autumn 1830 Mendelssohn Bartholdy visited Venice whilst on a great European tour and was intoxicated by his impressions. He said of the local gondoliers: “The gondoliers are now crying out to one another again, and the lights are reflected deep in the water; one is playing the guitar and singing. It is a merry night.” Perhaps it was with this in mind that Mendelssohn wrote four Venetian Gondola Songs between 1830 and 1841.
| Publisher: | Henle |
| Composer/Author: | Mendelssohn, Felix |
| Arranger/Editor: | Scheideler et al. |
| Catalog Number: | HN1172 |
| Pages: | 18 |