Des Knaben Wunderhorn
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Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Alte deutsche Lieder is a collection of German folk poems and songs edited by Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano. The book was published in three volumes, the first in 1806, f
Title page of Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Alte deutsche Lieder, volume 1, published in 1806
Title page, volume 2, published in 1808
Frontispiece and title page, volume 3, published in 1808
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen is a song cycle by Gustav Mahler on his own texts. The cycle of four lieder for medium voice was written around 1884–1885 in the wake of Mahler's unhappy love for sopra
Des Knaben Wunderhorn
…Mahler numbered the collection among his favourite books and set its poems to music throughout much of his life. The text of the first of his four Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, begun in 1884, is based directly on the Wunderhorn poem "Wann mein Schatz", using text from the first two stanzas. Between 1887 and 1901, he wrote two…
Mahler in 1892