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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 ...
Schütz is said to be the first great German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach, and was a major figure in 17th-century music. In the 19th century, two figures were paramount in German opera: Carl Maria von Weber and Richard Wagner. Wagner introduced devices like the Leitmotiv, a musical theme which recurs for important characters or ideas.
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 ...
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 German classical composers (214 P) M. Fanny Mendelssohn (1 C, 3 P) Felix Mendelssohn (3 C, 12 P) R. German Romantic composers (315 P) W. Richard Wagner ...
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 ...
[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]
Carl Bohm. Carl Bohm (also known by Karl Bohm and his pseudonym Henry Cooper; 11 September 1844 – 4 April 1920) was a German pianist and composer. [1]Bohm is regarded as one of the leading German songwriters of the 19th century, and wrote such works as Still as the Night, Twilight, May Bells, Enfant Cheri and The Fountain.