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German-speaking composers Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven wrote Lieder for voice and keyboard. The great age of German song came in the nineteenth century. With the flowering of German literature , German-speaking composers found more inspiration in poetry.
A Lied (plural: Lieder) is a German song that sets poetry to music, performed by a single vocalist and piano. Though songs generally place the spotlight on their vocalists, Lieder are more equal affairs: responsibility for expressing the song’s poetic nature is shared evenly between both musicians, creating a polyphonic interaction.
Here are the best German Songs. In this playlist you can find every kind of German Songs. {Mixed German Songs} Die besten deutschen Lieder. German music Germ...
Texts and Translations to Lieder and other classical vocal works in more than a hundred languages.
The Lieder Sound Archive is a free web archive of live recordings of Lieder and Art Songs (Mélodies, canzoni, романсы, canciones, canções, etc.). The website has frequent updates: at last count, it houses 65 Composers, 143 Poets, 57 Performers, 622 recordings.
lied, any of a number of particular types of German song, as they are referred to in English and French writings. The earliest so-called lieder date from the 12th and 13th centuries and are the works of minnesingers, poets and singers of courtly love (Minne).
What is German lieder? Lieder is the German word for song. Therefore, German lieder is German songs. However, when using the term, most people refer to German songs of the Romantic Period (19th Century) written for voice and piano. Lieder is unlike other classical vocal music in that the piano does more than merely accompany. The piano and ...
