Collection of songs by 19th century composers in MuseScore format with associated data. We aim to keep this contents file up to date so you should not need to adjust it for simple conversions (of ...

Leon Botstein conducted Schoenberg’s Gurre-Lieder with mezzo-soprano Krysty Swann among the soloists Friday night at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Matt Dine Did Romanticism in music collapse of its own weight ...

With more than 460 pieces of music to her name, Fanny Mendelssohn was one of the most sensational creative minds of 19th century Germany. Here are the 10 best pieces she wrote, ranked. She was later ...

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A Lied (plural: Lieder) is a German song that sets poetry to music, performed by a single vocalist and piano. Though songs generally place the spotlight on their vocalists, Lieder are more equal ...

Nobody who was present at Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau's British debut will ever forget it. Thomas Beecham, who had a good nose for talent, had sniffed out a young German baritone who was making a name ...

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Schubert was obsessed with Goethe, a feeling that wasn’t necessarily shared by the German poet. In 1816 Schubert had a parcel of 16 Lieder, including Erlkönig, sent to Goethe, yet he never replied and ...

“Lieder recitals are slowly becoming epidemic. Everything that sings and sounds, and doesn’t sound, wants to warble and crow from the platform.” Hugo Wolf, the great late Romantic Lieder composer, ...