Goethe and Heine were two of the leading nineteenth-century writers whose poetry was set by Lieder composers. The favorite Romantic poets for the composers of Lieder were:Ī song form in which the same melody is repeated with every stanza of text is called: In an asylum, the result of mental illness.
Robert Schumann ended his career and life: Schubert lived a tragically short life but was a remarkably prolific composer of: Schubert composed over six hundred Lieder.įranz Schubert was a thoroughly Romantic composer whose music abandoned the forms and stylistic principles of Classicism. The favorite subjects for the Romantic poets were: _ is NOT an important composer of nineteenth-century Lieder. The song form that combines features of strophic and through-composed forms is called modified strophic. The form of Schubert’s Lied Elfking is through-composed.
Schumann wrote his song cycle A Poet’s Love during his 'year of song,' in which he wrote hundreds of Lieder and also married Clara Schumann.
