by RufusHallmark (Editor)
Provides an introduction to the German lied. Beginning with its origin in the literary and musical culture of Germany in the nineteenth-century, this book covers individual composers, including Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Strauss, Mahler and Wolf, the literary sources of lieder, and the historical and conceptual issues of song cycles.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 456
Edition: 2
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 17 Sep 2009
ISBN 10: 0415990378
ISBN 13: 9780415990370