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Recent Researches in the Music of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Anthology of Goethe Songs
Edited by Richard D. Green
 
N 23 ISBN 0-89579-307-5 (1994) xxxviii+105 pp. $52.00
  ISBN 978-0-89579-307-2 (13-digit)    

Few poets have had so profound an influence on the history of German art music as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Since the late eighteenth century, over 700 of his poems have been set by nearly 600 composers as Lieder for voice and piano. This anthology gathers twenty-two such settings, in a wide variety of styles, by composers ranging from Goethe's friend Carl Zelter to Hans von Bülow, Ferruccio Busoni, and Othmar Schoeck.

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Contents 
Hans von Bülow Freisinn
Ferruccio Busoni Lied des Mephistopheles
Robert Franz Wonne der Wehmut
Moritz Hauptmann Der Fischer
Ferdinand Hiller Nähe des Geliebten
Bernhard Klein Der Erlkönig
Carl Loewe Der Zauberlehrling
Heinrich Marschner Der König von Thule
Nikolay Karlovich Medtner Geweihter Platz
Arnold Mendelssohn Am Flusse; Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergibt
Hans Pfitzner Mailied
Joseph Rheinberger Nachtgesang
Ferdinand Ries Die Spinnerin
Anton Rubinstein Clärchens Lied
Othmar Schoeck Rastlose Liebe
Louis Spohr Mignons Lied
Václav Jan Tomásek Das Veilchen; Nähe des Geliebten
Justus Hermann Wetzel An den Mond
Carl Zelter Sehnsucht
Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg Das Blümlein Wunderschön
Music Publishers' Association Paul Revere Award, 1995.