Lied ohne Worte für das Piano vierhändig

Institution

Royal Collection Trust

Object description:

Music manuscript, 5 pages. This is one of several pieces that Mendelssohn arranged for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert to play together. The solo version was subsequently published as Opus 85, no. 6. Mendelssohn paid several informal visits to the royal couple from 1842 to 1847, and learnt that they enjoyed playing duet arrangements of the lyrical piano-solos he called 'Songs without words'. He sent this one to Prince Albert on 7 May 1847, on his last visit to London, in response to the Prince’s compliments on his oratorio 'Elijah'. Text adapted from 'Victoria & Albert: Art & Love', London, 2010.

Object/Work type:

scores
manuscripts
folders (containers)

Cultural Heritage type:

Information Forms (hierarchy name)
Containers (hierarchy name)

Location:

London - United Kingdom

Object measurements:

30.4 x 23.0 cm (book measurement (conservation))

Production

Felix (Jakob Ludwig) Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-47) (composer)

Date: 1847

Place: England; London

Material/Technique: paper

Provenance

Prince Albert, Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1819-61) (Acquirer)

Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1819-1901) (Acquirer)

Material/Technique: [None]

Subject/theme:

Music for pianoforte, Vocal chamber music. Songs. Ballades. Lieder, England & Great Britain-History (Victoria 1837-1901), General medieval and modern history (European history), General medieval and modern history (European history)

Resource

Rights Type:  

Record

Source: Royal Collection Trust