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Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (/ ˈ h aɪ n ə /; German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈhaɪnə] ⓘ; born Harry Heine; 13 December 1797 – 17 February 1856) was a German poet, writer and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry , which was set to music in the form of Lieder (art songs) by composers such as Robert ...
Winter landscape near Schmitten, Hesse. The opening of the poem is the first journey of Heinrich Heine to Germany since his emigration to France in 1831. However it is to be understood that this is an imaginary journey, not the actual journey which Heine made but a literary tour through various provinces of Germany for the purposes of his commentary.
Heine's Buch der Lieder is divided into five sections; all the poems set in Schwanengesang are from the third, Die Heimkehr (The Homecoming). In Schwanengesang, this song stands at the end of the Heine songs, although Heine's order is different and it has been argued that the sequence works better dramatically when the songs are performed in their order of appearance in the Buch der Lieder.
"The Silesian Weavers" (also: Weaver-song) is a poem by Heinrich Heine written in 1844. It is exemplary of the political poetry of the Vormärz movement. It is about the misery of the Silesian weavers, who in 1844 ventured an uprising against exploitation and wage decreases, and thereby drew attention to the grievances originated in the context of industrialization.
Felix Mendelssohn set it to music as the second of his "six songs for voice and piano" (Opus 34-2, 1834). [1] [2] Franz Liszt arranged On Wings of Music for solo piano (S. 547). His song has been translated into other languages and has been adopted in school music textbooks for China, Japan and Korea.
Dichterliebe, A Poet's Love (composed 1840), is the best-known song cycle by Robert Schumann (Op. 48). The texts for its 16 songs come from the Lyrisches Intermezzo by Heinrich Heine, written in 1822–23 and published as part of Heine's Das Buch der Lieder.
Classic of Poetry, sometimes referred to as Book of Songs, an anthology of ancient Chinese poetry; Kitab al-Aghani, a collection of poems and songs by 10th-century Arab scholar Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani; Buch der Lieder, a collection of poems written by 19th-century German poet and writer Heinrich Heine; Book of Songs, a 2017 album by Sophie Koh
Pages in category "Musical settings of poems by Heinrich Heine" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D.