Dichterliebe
The Poet's Love is a cycle of 16 songs of the composer Robert Schumann, who has created a culmination of the romantic art song with his Opus 48. The cycle was created in 1840 to poems from Lyrical Intermezzo of the poet Heinrich Heine, a collection of 65 poems, which were then published in 1823 in tragedies, together with a lyrical intermezzo, 1827 in Book of Songs. 16 Of the 20 composed songs were eventually printed.
Schumann often went with his song cycles from a self-contained episode with an underlying poetic idea from. This is reflected here in the title self-selected Dichterliebe down, where he thereby its own dramatic conception following surrounded the order of Heine's poems. Heine had the poems not provided with headings, so it is with the " songs titles" to incipits.
The work was printed in September 1844 by Peters in Leipzig in 1861 and first performed in Hamburg by Julius Stockhausen and Johannes Brahms as a whole.
The cycle was recorded by many well-known song singers. Among the major and famous interpretations are the Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau/Christoph Eschenbach, Peter Pears / Benjamin Britten, Fritz Wunderlich, Peter Schreier / Christoph Eschenbach, Brigitte Fassbaender, Ian Bostridge, Thomas Quasthoff, Christoph Prégardien and Christian Gerhaher and Simon Keenlyside
Title
Four Songs were sorted out at the time of printing:
- Your face so sweet and beautiful 1840 No. 05 No. 05 in Heine
- Lean on your cheek to my cheek 1840 No. 06 No. 06 in Heine
- It lights up my love 1840 No. 15 No. 46 in Heine
- My car slowly rollet 1840 No. 16 No. 54 in Heine
They appeared in the cycles, Op 127 (your face ... there's 02, it lights up ..., there 03 ), published in 1854 and op 142, publ. 1852 ( Lean on your cheek ..., 02 there, My car ... 04 there ). Op. 127 and Op 142 contain besides these Heine poems still poems by Justinus Kerner.
Editions
- Facsimile after the autograph of the Berlin State Library Prussian Cultural Heritage. Edited by Elisabeth Schmierer. Laaber Laaber 2005, ISBN 3-89007-641-6.