“Music fulfills the soul a thousand times better than words”....So true! The Songs Without Words is a series of short lyrical piano songs by the Romantic composer Felix Mendelssohn, written between 1829 and 1845. The Song Without Words are piano pieces in which a melody played on the piano is accompanied by itself.
Opus 62 was dedicated to Clara Schumann. This number 5 of the series is also known as ‘Third Venetian Gondola Song’