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"Zueignung" was the first of eight songs by Strauss published as Op. 10, [4] which were all settings of Gilm's poems. In 1885, they were the first songs Strauss ever published. [ 4 ] The song was given its first public performance at Meiningen in a chamber concert on 5 March 1886 (along with three other Opus 10 songs "Nichts", " Allerseelen ...
" Die Nacht" ("The Night") is an art song composed by Richard Strauss in 1885, setting a poem by the Austrian poet Hermann von Gilm. It was included in the first collection of songs Strauss ever published, as Op. 10 in 1885 (which also included "Zueignung"). The song is written for voice and piano.
A second updated edition of 400 pages for all works of Strauss was published in 1993 with incipits, and his son Florian Trenner published a completely revised edition of 496 pages in 1999; this catalogue lists 298 works and its numbers are shown in the column "TrV" below. [2] [3] [4]
Whilst the two had corresponded for several years, they first met on 23 March 1899 (Hugo von Hofmannsthal was accompanying Dehmel, and also met Strauss for the first time). [3] "Befreit" rapidly became one of Strauss' more popular songs. Richard Dehmel was less appreciative: "Richard Strauss set the following poem by me to music; it is a little ...
It is the last in a collection of eight songs which were all settings of Gilm poems from the same volume entitled Acht Lieder aus Letzte Blätter (Eight Songs from Last Pages), the first collection of songs Strauss ever published as Op. 10 in 1885, also including "Zueignung" (Dedication) and "Die Nacht" (The Night).
" Heimliche Aufforderung" ("The Secret Invitation" or "The Lovers; Pledge"), Op. 27, No. 3, is one of a set of four songs composed for voice and piano by Richard Strauss in 1894. The German conductor Robert Heger orchestrated it in 1929. [2] The text is from a poem in German by John Henry Mackay.
Schmutzer's Engraved portrait of Strauss, 1922 " Der Krämerspiegel " ("The Shopkeeper's Mirror"), Op. 66, is a 1918 song cycle of 12 songs written by Richard Strauss . The songs were set to texts commissioned by Strauss in a piqued response to a contractual obligation to produce a set of songs for his publisher. [ 1 ]
Enoch Arden, Op. 38, TrV. 181, is a melodrama for narrator and piano, written in 1897 by Richard Strauss setting a German translation of the 1864 poem of the same name by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. History