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In the Western classical music tradition, Lied is a term for setting poetry to music. The term is used for any kind of song in German, but among English speakers, lied is often used interchangeably wi
Franz Schubert's early masterpiece Gretchen am Spinnrade, which he wrote at age 17 to verse by Goethe, is one of the earlier of his lieder that is widely performed today.
The diminutive Franz Schubert with his tall friend and collaborator Johann Michael Vogl. Caricature drawing by Franz von Schober
Franz Schubert
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Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. He was immensely prolific despite living a short life, leaving behind a vast oeuvre of more than 1,000 comp
Lied
…nineteenth centuries, and into the early twentieth century. Examples include settings by Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Hugo Wolf, Gustav Mahler or Richard Strauss. For German speakers, the term "Lied" has a long history ranging from…
1875 portrait, after an 1825 original
The house in which Schubert was born, today Nußdorfer Straße 54
Possible portrait of the young Franz Schubert c. 1814, attributed to Josef Abel