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Sechs Gedichte und Requiem. Categories: Classical song cycles. Lieder composed by Robert Schumann. Classical song cycles in German.
Liederkreis, Op. 39, is a song cycle composed by Robert Schumann. Its poetry is taken from Joseph von Eichendorff's collection entitled Intermezzo. Schumann wrote two cycles of this name – the other being his Opus 24, to texts by Heinrich Heine – so this work is also known as the Eichendorff Liederkreis. Schumann wrote, "The voice alone ...
Dichterliebe, A Poet's Love (composed 1840), is the best-known song cycle by Robert Schumann (Op. 48). The texts for its 16 songs come from the Lyrisches Intermezzo by Heinrich Heine, written in 1822–23 and published as part of Heine's Das Buch der Lieder.
6 maj 2016 · In the intervening time, Beethoven’s admirer Franz Schubert composed his two famous cycles, Die schöne Müllerin (The Beautiful Miller’s Daughter) and Winterreise (Winter’s Journey). But what distinguishes Schumann’s Dichterliebe is the incredible unity of effect he achieves with only 16 songs, some of them less than a minute long ...
In this article I shall combine from the extant manuscript sources of the Liederkreis with internal evidence to suggest that Schumann considered two radically different for the songs: first, the order in which the composition drafts were as given by the dates in the autograph; and second, the familiar order, in they were finally published in Sch...
return of the first song in the piano postlude are immediately evident. Less evident is the rela-tion of the cycle's structure to the melodic, har-monic, and tonal contents of the opening song. Here Schumann reveals his particular under-standing and handling of variation procedure, and his special ability to integrate on multiple
Summary. A story of decades. Song and Schumann are as inextricably linked in the public mind as they are in the minds of performers and musicologists, and this has been the case for roughly a century and a half.
