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The Festival was founded in 2002 by the pianist Sholto Kynoch, [1] and in a short space of time grew to be the United Kingdom's largest art song festival. [2] Oxford Lieder is now a registered charity and in addition to the annual festival which takes place in October, [3] there are regular concerts and masterclasses throughout the year, and a growing programme of educational events.
3 Lieder, Op. 29: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project; Traum durch die Dämmerung text and translation at Oxford Lieder; Traum durch die Dämmerung Deutsche Gedichte-Bibliothek (in German) Traum durch die Dämmerung zeno.org (in German) Drei Lieder mit Klavierbegleitung, op. 29: Traum durch die Dämmerung, Ausgabe 1
The LiederNet Archive (formerly The Lied, Art Song, and Choral Texts Archive) is a donation-supported web archive of art song and choral texts [1] founded in 1995 [2] by Emily Ezust, an American/Canadian computer programmer and amateur violinist. The website was hosted by the REC Music Foundation from 1996 to 2015.
Gustav Mahler, Hans Pfitzner, Max Reger, Richard Strauss, Alexander Zemlinsky carried the tradition of the Lied into the 20th century. Arnold Schoenberg, [12] Alban Berg, Anton Webern, and Ernst Krenek wrote tonal, atonal, and twelve-tone Lieder. Somewhat later, Paul Dessau and Hanns Eisler wrote Lieder of a sometimes overtly political nature.
The text for Canticle I was taken from A Divine Rapture by Quarles, a paraphrase of sections from the Song of Songs from the Old Testament. It arrives several times at the refrain line "I my best beloved’s am – so he is mine". [4] As already the original biblical poetry, it is "full of beautiful, sensuous imagery". [4]
Eichendorff-Lieder (1889), to texts by Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff; Goethe-Lieder (wr. from 1875, publ. 1889), 51 songs to texts by Goethe; Dem Vaterland (1890), to a text by Robert Reinick; Spanisches Liederbuch, to texts by Paul Heyse and Emanuel Geibel (1891) Italienisches Liederbuch, to texts by Paul Heyse (1892, 1896)
This song's title means 'spring night'. It was the most popular of the cycle's twelve during Schumann's lifetime, and one of the most popular Lieder of all the nineteenth century. The text's themes of nature and Romantic ecstasy in love, typical of Eichendorff, were dear to Schumann, and the song has captured the imaginations of many composers ...
Lieder line by line (subtitled Lieder line by line and word for word) is a book by Lois Phillips, a professor of song at the Royal Academy of Music. The book gives the full texts of most of the important lieder by Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Wagner, Brahms, Wolf, Mahler and Strauss. Under each line of the original German is a literal word-by ...