# Lieder Ohne Worte ## History - [WikiPedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_Without_Words) - First Vol. published in London (1832) as *Original Melodies for the Pianoforte*, later volumes as *Songs without Words* - This title is Mendelssohn's invention - "What the music I love expresses to me, is not thought too _indefinite_ to put into words, but on the contrary, too _definite_".