Lieder und Gesänge (Mahler)



Lieder und Gesänge is a collection of fourteen songs with piano accompaniment by Gustav Mahler.
The title of the collection is sometimes given with the addendum aus der Jugendzeit, but this addendum is not by Mahler. It is not even clear whether the subtitle refers to the songs being early works of Gustav Mahler, or whether the songs are meant to resemble memories of someone's younger days. The title might also simply refer to the source of the major part of the lyrics, Des Knaben Wunderhorn.
The songs were composed from 1880 to 1889 and published in three booklets in 1892.
  1. Frühlingsmorgen - Spring morning
  2. Erinnerung - Memory
  3. Hans und Grete - Hans and Grethe
  4. Serenade aus Don Juan - Serenade
  5. Phantasie aus Don Juan - Imagination
  1. Um schlimme Kinder artig zu machen - How to make naughty children behave
  2. Ich ging mit Lust durch einen grünen Wald - I walked with joy
  3. Aus! Aus! - Out! Out!
  4. Starke Einbildungskraft - Strong Imagination
  1. Zu Straßburg auf der Schanz' - On the ramparts at Strasbourg
  2. Ablösung im Sommer - Changing of the summer relief
  3. Scheiden und Meiden - Parting is painful
  4. Nicht wiedersehen! - Never to meet again!
  5. Selbstgefühl - Self-esteem
Together with the booklet "Sieben Lieder aus letzter Zeit", which consists of the five Rückert-Lieder and two of the Lieder aus "Des Knaben Wunderhorn", published in 1905, they now make up a collection known as 24 Songs by Mahler, published by International Music Company, New York, NY.
Orchestral versions of a selection of the songs were published by Luciano Berio in 1986 and 1987. Orchestrations of five of the songs were also made by Colin Matthews and David Matthews in 1964. All 14 songs are now orchestrated and available for performance from Josef Weinberger Limited. The complete cycle was given its first performance by Regine Hangler and the Warsaw Philharmonic under the baton of Jacek Kaspczyk at the Philharmonic Hall, Warsaw on 1 October 2016.