2. Vocal
3. Art Songs
4. Art Song Vocal Solos
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Complete Songs for Voice and Piano - Volume I (Voice and Piano)

Beethoven's importance as the creator of monumental orchestral works and of substantial chamber music and solo sonatas is so great that his rich song oeuvre is often hardly even noticed. But his lieder offer a highly entertaining repertoire in which love songs and humorous songs alternate with serious pieces of philosophical or religious subject matter. Goethe, Claudius, Herder, Lessing, Gellert and Rousseau are among the authors whose poems he set. In this way, we are offered a panorama of the waning 18th and incipient 19th centuries with a specific blend of feeling for nature, Enlightenment thought and religious sensibility. This Henle Urtext edition in two volumes, which is based on the Beethoven Complete Edition, also contains those songs which were rediscovered long after Beethoven's death and were therefore hardly known for a long time. A detailed preface on the history and source situation of Beethoven's art songs rounds off this edition.

Details

Publisher: Henle Urtext Edition
Publisher Code: HN533
Publication Date: 11/2006
Credits: (ed. Helga Lühning)
Medium: Softcover
Pages: 128
Length: 12.25 in.
Width: 9.25 in.
Series: Henle Music Folios
Format: Softcover