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The German term ‘Lieder’ sometimes encompasses the Minnesang tradition of German songs which originate as far back as the 12th century. However, ‘Lieder’ most often refers to the specific musical settings of Romantic poetry; both music and lyrics composed in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Texts and Translations to Lieder and other classical vocal works in more than a hundred languages.
As part of the digital concert "Ich denke nicht, ich tanze!" (I don't think, I dance!), in which four German bands performed live via Zoom and Weibo for German learners in China in November, a collection of six worksheets was created under the motto "Ich spreche nicht, ich singe!" (I don't speak, I sing!).
This course focuses on a selection of short poems in German that were set to music by Franz Schubert (1797–1828) for a single voice with piano, a genre known as ‘Lieder’ (the German for ‘songs’).
German and Austrian composers had written music for voice with keyboard before this time, but it was with the flowering of German literature in the Classical and Romantic eras that composers found high inspiration in poetry that sparked the genre known as the Lied. The term deutsches Kunstlied, (German Lieder, The German Art Song)
On this page we can see the texts laid out in parallel, with the German on the right and the Swedish on the left; and on this page we can see the English laid out in parallel with the German on the left.
A Lied (plural: Lieder) simply means ‘a song’ or ‘a poem set to music’ in German, and was first recorded as a genre as early as the fourteenth century.
