Schumann's Dichterliebe
Composed in 1840, Dichterlieb (The Poet's Love), Opus 48, is Robert Schumann's best-known song-cycle. The lyrics for the sixteen songs come from the poet Heinrich Heine's Lyrisches Intermezzo, composed in 1822–1823, and published as part of Heine's Das Buch der Lieder.
Im wunderschönen Monat Mai (In beautiful May) is the first of the sixteen Dichterliebe songs.
Hör' Ich Das Liedchen Klingen (When I Hear That Song Which My Love Once Sang) is the tenth of the sixteen Dichterliebe songs.
Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856) was a great German poet, as well as a journalist, essayist, and literary critic. Outside of Germany he is best known for his lyric-poetry, which was set to music in the form of art songs (Lieder) by composers such as Robert Schumann, Franz Schubert, Felix Mendelssohn, Fanny Mendelssohn, Johannes Brahms, Hugo Wolf, Richard Strauss, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, and Hans Werner Henze.
Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856) was a great German Romantic composer whose legacy includes acclaimed works in practically all the musical forms of his time. Schumann's compositions are extraordinarily inventive, and they reveal a poetic musician unbound by the forms of the Classical period.
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