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The Wienerlied (German, literally: Viennese song, pl. Wienerlieder) or Weanaliad (viennese, pl. Weanaliada) is a traditional song genre which has its roots in Austria's capital and largest city, Vienna. Wienerlieder often center on life in Vienna. They are almost exclusively sung in Viennese German, a local Austro-Bavarian dialect. The ...
Title page of the sheet music published by August Cranz. The "Fiakerlied" (Fiaker Song) is an 1885 Wienerlied (Viennese song) with words and music by Gustav Pick.The song was written to celebrate the centenary of the Viennese Fiaker, a horse-drawn carriage for hire.
An art song is a Western vocal music composition, usually written for one voice with piano accompaniment, and usually in the classical art music tradition. By extension, the term "art song" is used to refer to the collective genre of such songs (e.g., the "art song repertoire"). [ 1 ]
The Wienerlied is a unique and very popular song genre from Vienna. There are approximately 60,000 – 70,000 Wienerlieder [1] Music Festivals.
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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.
In the classical music tradition, this type of setting may be referred to as an art song. A poem set to music in the German language is called a lied , or in the French language , a Mélodie . A group of poems, usually by the same poet, which are set to music to form a single work, is called a song cycle .
Gustav Pick (10 December 1832 – 29 April 1921) [1] was a musician and composer of Wienerlieder (Viennese songs). He is best known as the creator of the "Fiakerlied ...