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German Song Lit MidTerm
Composers, poets, songs, voila!
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10/26/2007

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Mozart
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1756-1791. 40 songs, in German, French, and Italian. "An Chloe", "Als Luise die Briefe ihres ungetreuen Liebhabers verbrannte" etc.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
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1770-1827

66 songs, 59 German, 7 Italian 

Most important contribution to the development of Lied:
-expanded harmonic range
-first song cycle An die Ferne Geliebte ("To the distant love"), poet Aloys Jeitteles, 6 songs

Music and texts more congruent
Song cycle linked by piano into one continuous work
1st song returns at the end of the work

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Aloys Jeitteles
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(1794-1858) German poet, wrote "An die Ferne Geliebte", which Beethoven set into the first song cycle

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German poetry
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  • Use of unpretentious language
  • Poetry emerged from grass roots, no considered just an elitist passtime
  • popular appeal of german poetry is mirrored in the role of german poets as a political/social conscience


JOHANN VON GOETHE (1749-1832)

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Franz Joseph Haydn
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1732-1809

Oratorios: Creation, The Seasons

40 songs in German and English

first important composer to compose vocal music in 3 staves. Dynamics are in the piano, not voice, until Schumann
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Johann Friedrick Reichhart
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1752-1814

1000 Songs, doubled voice, harmonically adventurous, expanded strophic plan
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Carl Friedrich Zelter
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1758-1832

Composer most favored by Goethe

Music subservient to the words, inventive piano postludes
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Johann Rudolph Zumsteeg
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1760-1802

300 songs and singspiele, specialized in extended ballads

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Franz Peter Schubert
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1797-1828

SONG SUCCESS:

1. "Gretchen am Spinnrade"

2. Reactive: limits the options of composers

3. Flowering of German Literature: Schubert had a voracious appetite for reading.

4. He did not have towering models of song before him, as opposed to symphonies (BEETHOVEN), chamber music (HAYDN), opera (MOZART)
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