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The collection of love, soldiers, wandering, and children's songs was an important source of idealized folklore in the Romantic nationalism of the 19th century. Des Knaben Wunderhorn became widely popular across the German-speaking world; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , one of the most influential writers of the time, declared that Des Knaben ...
Some outstanding German literary figures and publicists of the 19th century have written individual sacred texts, which represent only a small part of a much larger work. The songs of Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769–1860), Friedrich Rückert (1788–1866), and Eleonore Princess of Reuss (1835–1903) are examples.
19th-century hymns (1 C, 99 P) Pages in category "19th-century songs" ... Pages in category "19th-century songs" The following 94 pages are in this category, out of ...
With the flowering of German literature, German-speaking composers found more inspiration in poetry. [citation needed] Schubert found a new balance between words and music, a new expression of the sense of the words in and through the music. He wrote over 600 songs, some of them in sequences or song cycles that convey a journey of the soul, not ...
Popular folk songs included emigration songs from the 19th century, work songs and songs of apprentices, as well as democracy-oriented folk songs collected in the 1950s by Wolfgang Steinitz. Beginning in 1970, the Festival des politischen Liedes , an East German festival focusing on political songs, was held annually and organized (until 1980 ...
19th-century hymns in German (26 P) Pages in category "19th-century hymns" The following 99 pages are in this category, out of 99 total.
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[7] German-language song composition at the end of 18th century shifted from accessible, Strophic form, more traditional folk songs to 19th century settings of more sophisticated poetry for a more educated middle class, "who were gradually supplanting the aristocracy as the main patrons of the arts". [8]