View near Camonteign , Devon (detail), by John White Abbott (1764 – 1851), 1803 (Photo credit: Google images)
Die Lieder
In the nineteenth century, instrumental music came of age. It was, at long last, morally acceptable. Yet, in nineteenth-century Europe, the humble song reached its apex. In music, the song is the only permanent genre. It found its finest composers in Beethoven’s ( An Die Ferne Geliebte , To the distant beloved ), but, to a greater extent, in Schubert , the Master : Die Forelle (The Trout) and Ständchen, a “Serenade,” and in Schumann : “Die wunderschönen Monat Mai ” (“The Wonderful Month of May”) and “Hör’ ich das liedchen klingen ” (“I hear a little sound sounding,” in Dichterliebe ).
Song Cycles
Composers wrote song cycles, such as Schubert’s Winterreise and Die schöne Müllerin , and Schumann’s Dichterliebe .
Let’s listen to Die Forelle (The Trout) and Ständchen , interpreted by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , in 1951, as well as an instrumental version of the “Serenade .”
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© Micheline Walker
June 28th, 2012
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