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Listen to some of Ludwig van Beethoven's Lieder |
With LvBeethoven.com's website, you can listen to 928 midi files and 389 mp3 filesof works by Ludwig van Beethoven. The following files to listen to are in midi format. The music is created by electronic sounds and instruments, which are sequenced by musicians who become the author. The sounds, therefore, do not come from an orchestra, but the result is often pleasenty surprising. Over to you to discover... Read more about what midi files are and how to listen to them. |
Works for voice - WoO - Kinsky |
WoO 93 1802-1803 7'07" |
Nei giorni tuoi felici, duet in E major, for soprano and tenor with orchestra. |
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WoO 99-1 Hess 211 1801-1803 1'28" |
Bei
labbri che amore, duet. The text was written by Pietro Metastasio (Roma 1698 - Vienna 1782). Words in Italian (from"La Gelosia"): Bei labbri che amore |
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WoO 99-3a |
Fra tutte le pene The first version was published by Willy Hess in the first book of Supplemente zur G.A., in 1959: Hess 208. The first version was published by Kinsky - Halm and is WoO 99-3a. Words in Italian from "Zenobia"
by Pietro Metastasio: |
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WoO 99-11 Hess 215 1795-1796 0'35" |
Scrivo
in te: Duet in D major. Words by Metastasio: |
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WoO 101 1802 0'43" |
Graf, Graf, liebster Graf..., musical joke in E flat major |
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WoO 103 1814 5'08" |
Un lieto brindisi: Johannisfeier begehn wir heute!, little cantata in B flat major, for four voices (soprano, 2 tenors and bass) with piano |
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WoO 106 1823 1'48" |
Lobkowitz-Kantate: Es lebe unser teurer Furst !, cantata in E flat major, for soprano and choir with piano - Text: Ludwig van Beethoven |
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WoO 107 1783 0'46" |
Schilderung
eines Madchens: Schildern, willst du Freund,
lied in G major, for soprano with piano. Published by Spire, Blimenlese für Klavierlieberhaber II, Bossler, 1783. The text is from an unknown author (it has been said wrongly that it was by Burger). The original manuscript is lost. Schildern, willst du Freund,
soll ich dir Elisen? Wie in einer Winternacht Sterne
strahlen, |
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WoO 108 1784 ? 0'48" |
An
einen Saugling: Noch weisst du nicht wess Kind
du bist, lied in A major, for soprano
with piano. Published by Spire, Blimenlese für Klavierlieberhaber II, Bossler, 1784, II, page 44. Written only in two lines, with the words under the first line. The original manuscript is lost. The text is from J. von Dohring, and not Wirths, as Thayer and Nottebohm thought it was; it is at the Almanach Museum at Gottingen. Noch weißt du nicht wes
Kind du bist, Geneuß indes mit frommem
Sinn, So hegt und pflegt uns alle
hier, Zwar faßt ihn nicht mein
dunkler Sinn, |
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WoO 109 around 1797 1'33" |
Trinklied: Erhebt das Glas mit froher Hand, song in C major. Composed circa 1797 and published for the first time in G.A., 1888. The original manuscript is at the British Library. The author of the words of this lied is not known. Erhebt das Glas mit froher Hand |
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WoO 110 1787 3'36" |
Elegie auf den Tod eines Pudels The text: 1. Stirb immerhin, es welken ja so viele 2. Auch meine Freude du! dir fließen Zahren, 3. Allgeber gab dir diese feste Treue, 4. Du warst so rein von aller Tück' und Fehle 5. Oft, wenn ich des Gewühles satt und müde 6. Trüb sind die Augenblicke unsers Lebens, 7. Doch soll dein Tod mich nicht zu sehr betruben; 8. Mein herz soll nicht mit dem Verhangnis |
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WoO 111 around 1790-1792 1'25" |
"Punschlied"; "Wer nicht, wenn warm von Hand zu Hand", song in G major. |
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WoO 112 around 1790 3'02" |
An Laura (À Laura) : Freund' umbluhe dich auf allen Wegen, Lied for voice and pianoforte, composed around 1790. First published by Georg Kinsky, Musikhistorisches Museumvon Wilhelm Heyer in Koln, IV, 1916, number 213 and Musikbeilagen, page 3; more recently (1962) by Willy Hess, in the fifth book of the Supplemente zur G.A. The manuscript was found in 1911 in a private collection at Leipzig. It was bought by the Wilhelm Heyer Museum at Köln. After Wilhelm Heyer's death in 1927, the Beethovenhaus Bonn became the new owner. However, it was destroyed in a criminal fire in 1960. Today, we only have a copy of this work. The piano part of the begining was published un the title 'Number 12' in the Diabelli (1826) - Bagatelles Opus 119, but the transcription was probably not the work of Beethoven. Text by Matthisson. Freund' um bluhe dich auf allen
Wegen, Lachelnd wird der Seraph nieder
schweben, Dann tone Gottes ernste Waage
Wonne dir, |
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WoO 113 around 1790 3'24" |
Klage: Dein Silber schien, song in E major. Words by Ludwig Hölty: Dein Silber schien Wenn jetzt dein Licht Bald, lieber Freund, |
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WoO 115 1792-1793 0'53" |
An Minna: Nur bei dir (only close to you) for voice and piano. November 1792 - 1793. Text: Nur bei dir, an deinem Herzen, |
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WoO 116a 1792-1793 0'52" |
Que
le temps me dure, lied for voice and piano Text: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Version in C minor. |
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WoO 116b 1792-1793 0'48" |
Que
le temps me dure, lied for voice and piano Text: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Version in C major. |
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WoO 117 1792 0'32" |
Der freie Mann: Wer ist ein freier Mann ?, lied in C major, for unison choir. |
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WoO 118 1795 5'25" |
Seufzer einer umgeliebten und gegenliebe: Hast du nicht Liebe zugemssen, for voice and piano, 1794 - March 1795, edited in Viena, Diabelli, April 1837. GA. n. 253, series 23/40, - Boett. III/5 - Bruers 254 - KH., Wo0)118 - L. IV, p. 357/c - Nottebohm page 185 - Petters 53. The manuscript has disappeared. The text is made from two poems by Burger. The subject of this work will be, twelve years later, with orchestra and voices in the Chorale Fantasy opus 80 for piano, choir and orchestra, before the "Finale" of the Ninth Symphony, opus 125. Text: Hast du nicht Liebe zugemessen |
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WoO 119 1795 1'48" |
Oh
care selve, "canzonetta" for
unison choir, voice and piano. January - March
1795, published for the first time in the Supplemente
zur G.A., 1888. This lied has been composed while studying with Salieri. The original manuscript is kept at the Deutsche Staatsbibliothek at Berlin. The text is from the "Olimpiade" by Metastasio, act one, fourth scene. Chorus: Solist: Chrorus: Solist: Chorus: |
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WoO 120 1794 3'21" |
Man strebt die Flamme zu verhehlen Text: Man strebt, die Flamme zu verhehlen, Geheimnisvoll schließt man die Lippen, Ein Blick sagt mehr als tausend Worte, |
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WoO 121 1796 2'33" |
Abschiedsgesang an Wiens Bürger Text by Josef von Friedelberg: Keine Klage soll erschallen, |
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WoO 122 1797 0'51" |
Kriegslied der Osterreicher: Ein grosses deutsches Volk sind wir, lied in C major for unison choir. |
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WoO 123 1795 ? 1'28" |
Zartliche Liebe: Ich liebe dich, so wie du mich, lied in G major for voice and piano. |
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WoO 124 1795-1796 ? 0'45" |
La Partenza (Der Abschied): Ecco quel fiero istante !, lied in A major for voice and piano. |
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WoO 125 around 1798 3'20" |
La Tiranna: Ah grief to Think!, lied for voice and piano, published in Londres, Broderip and Wilkinson 1800. La Tiranna |
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WoO 126 1794 1'09" |
Opferlied: Die Flamme lodert, lied in E major for voice and piano. |
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WoO 128 1798-1799 1'09" |
Plaisir d'aimer: Plaisir d'aimer besoin d'une âme tendre, lied in G major for voice and piano . |
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WoO 130 1804 1'40" |
Gedenke
mein! lied for voice and piano, composed
at the end of 1804, and published in Vienna, 1844. The manuscript has been lost. A sketch can be found on a single sheet within the Grasnick autographs of the Deutsche Staatsbibliothek in Berlin (Boettcher). This lied was proposed to Beitkopf & Hartel on the 16th of January 1805, but it was refused and sent back to Beethoven on the 21st of June 1805. The text is from an unknown author: Gedenke mein! |
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WoO 131 1809-1810 4'01" |
Erlkönig: Wer reitet so spat durch Nacht und Wind? Erlkönig (The Alder King): Wer reitet so spat durch Nacht und Wind? (Who rides so late through night and wind?) Sketch of a lied in D minor, for voice and piano, 1809-1810. Published in Leipzig, Schuberth and Co. (completed by Reinhold Becker, 1897); then in New York, Luckhardt and Belder (completed by Heinrich Zòllner), 1898. Boett. V119 - B. 287/1 - 14. 148 - KH. (WoO) 131 - Biamonti 526. There are two manuscripts of the sketch: - The first is kept in the library of the Paris Conservatoire. This sketch also contains the first sketches for the Bagatelles op. 119 numbers 2 and 4, and a cadenza for the Concerto in B flat major for piano and orchestra op. 19. Max Unger dates this sketch at 1795 and Nottebohm at 1800-1804; - The second, more complete, is found in the archives of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde of Vienna, completely reproduced by Nottebohm and dated, according to him, 1800-1810. There are: all 55 bars (of which 8 are the instrumental conclusion). It occupies the fourth page of a notebook which also contains the sketches of the melody for the "Rastlose Liebe" of Goethe. This sketch is dated, in an article by Elsa Bienenfeld in "Neues Wiener Journal" of 27th March 1937, of the grand creative period "goethienne" of Beethoven, that is 1809-1810. It seems that the sketch of the Erlkönig comes from the same period, at least the second version, which is the more advanced. The whole effect, even if the lied is incomplete, is of music without doubt of great quality. Text by Goethe. Wer reitet so spaet durch Nacht
und Wind? Mein Sohn, was birgst du so
bang dein Gesicht? "Du liebes Kind, komm,
geh' mit mir, Mein Vater, mein Vater, und
hoerest du nicht, "Willst, feiner Knabe,
du mit mir geh'n? Mein Vater, mein Vater und siehst
du nicht dort "Ich liebe dich, mich reizt
deine schoene Gestalt; Dem Vater grausest's, er reitet
geschwind, |
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WoO 133 1807 1'33" |
In questa tomba oscura, ariette in A flat major for voice and piano. |
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WoO 134 1806 1'12" 1'07" 0'29" 1'26" |
Song in G minor: "Sehnsucht";
"Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt": 134-1: first setting 134-2: second setting 134-3: third setting 134-4: fourth setting. |
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WoO 136 1809 2'33" |
Andenken: Ich denke dein, lied in D major for voice and piano. |
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WoO 138 1809 1'55" |
Der Jüngling in der Fremde, song in B flat major. Words by Christian Ludwig Reissig. This music was originally written for the text of WoO 137. The Text: Der Frühling entblühet dem Schoß der Natur, |
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WoO 139 1809 2'52" |
Song in D major: "Der Liebende"; "Welch ein wunderbares Leben" |
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WoO 142 1813 0'36" |
Der Bardengeist: Dort auf dem hohen Felsen sang, lied in E minor for voice and piano. |
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WoO 143 1814 0'41" |
Des Kriegers Abschied: Ich zieh'ins Feld von Lieb'entbrannt, lied in E flat major for voice and piano. |
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WoO 145 1815 1'25" |
Das Geheimnis: Wo blüht das Blümchen, das nie verblüht? The text: Das Geheimnis - (Liebe und Wahrheit) |
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WoO 148 1817 0'42" |
So oder so: Nord oder Sud !, lied in F major for voice and piano. |
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WoO 150 1820 4'21" |
Abendlied unterm gestirnten Himmel Text by Heinrich Goeble: Wenn die Sonne nieder sinket Schaut so gern nach jenen Sternen Ob der Erde Stürme toben, Eine leise Ahnung schauert |
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WoO 151 1823 0'57" |
Der
edle Mensch sei hulfreich und gut: Der edle Mensch
sei hulfreich und gut ! The text by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Der edle Mensch sei |
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WoO 156 1817-1818 1'23" |
Schottische Lieder (12) for voice,
piano, violin and cello. Beethoven worked nicely
on the harmony and has created the instrumental
part (introduction, conclusion, and accompagniments). Some of these lieder were published by Thomson, Edimbourg, in 1822,1824 and 1825. The complete publication dates 1839-1841. WoO 156 number 2 - Duncan Gray : "Duncan Gray came here to woo". Popular song for three voice, piano, violin, cello. The original manuscript has disappeared. |
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WoO 178 1820 2'21" |
Signor Abate, 3-part Canon in B flat major.
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WoO 200 1818 0'12" |
O Hoffnung, lied theme in G major.
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Anhang 18 - Nachruf oder "An Sie" Lied for voice and piano / Word Première See the issue number 11 of 'Beethoven', the French Journal of the Association Beethoven France et Francophonie
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Many
thanks to Hannah SALTER for her translation
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