Hunting Song

E801880

"Hunting Song" is a lively, evocative piano piece by Felix Mendelssohn, best known as one of his celebrated Songs Without Words.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Romantic-era composition
character piece
piano piece
composer Felix Mendelssohn NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin Germany
genre classical music
hasCharacteristic depicts hunting atmosphere
evocative
lively
programmatic
virtuosic
hasForm short piano miniature
hasNotablePerformer Daniel Barenboim NERFINISHED
Murray Perahia NERFINISHED
Vladimir Ashkenazy NERFINISHED
hasTitleTheme hunting
influencedBy Romantic program music tradition
instrumentation solo piano
isBestKnownAs one of Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words
isFrequentlyPerformed true
isFrequentlyRecorded true
languageOfTitle English
movementType song without words
partOf Songs Without Words NERFINISHED
period Romantic period
style Romantic piano style
typicalPerformanceContext recital repertoire
teaching repertoire
usesTexture brilliant figurations
rapid passagework

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Songs Without Words notablePiece Hunting Song