Question
A posthumously published D major cello work written for Lisa Cristiani by this collection’s composer is sometimes grouped as a part of this collection. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this set of lyrical solo piano works published in eight volumes of six pieces between 1829 and 1845.
ANSWER: Songs Without Words
[10e] This German composer wrote Songs Without Words. His sister Fanny wrote similar works that she titled Songs for Piano.
ANSWER: Felix Mendelssohn
[10h] This entry from Songs Without Words, the last piece in Book 5, opens with the ascending theme “long C-sharp, D D-sharp E, long A.” It is sometimes nicknamed for the English town where Mendelssohn stayed with his wife’s relatives, “Camberwell Green.”
ANSWER: “Frühlingslied” [or “Spring Song”; accept MWV U 161]
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