No singer is able to ignore Beethoven's Adelaide. There are thousands of recordings; many love this lyrical setting of Friedrich von Matthisson's poem. Matthisson himself said of it: "Several
This urtext edition of Beethoven's An die ferne Geliebte (To the Distant Beloved) includes a detailed critical commentary with research questions and performance notes in both English and German,
To whom did Beethoven address this song cycle An die ferne Geliebte (To the Distant Beloved), which he completed at the age of 45 in April of 1816? Was it to the same person to whom his passionate
Faust; Wilhelm Meister; Egmont; Erlkonig - Beethoven often chose texts by Goethe for his song compositions. Now, for the first time, all of Beethoven's songs with texts by the great Weimar writer
Dvorak's Gypsy Songs are set to the text of seven poems from Adolf Heyduk's Gypsy Songs from the collection Basne, published in 1859. They appear to have been solicited by Viennese opera
Continuing the excellent anthology series of Schubert's lieder, Volume 9 contains songs composed in 1816 and early 1817, including the songs D 342 through D 468. This Urtext edition is available for high,
1840 was Schumann's famous "year of song" that brought forth over 100 lieder. They included Myrthen, Op. 25, which he dedicated "to his dear bride," Clara Schumann. Besides famous songs such as
The second volume of Dvorak's songs comprises his works in the genre from 1878-1901. It captures the peak of Dvorak's song oeuvre, and includes two little-known songs which are not to be found in the