Franz Schubert set the poetry of over 115 writers to music, including classical Greek, medieval, Renaissance, 18th-century German, early Romantic, and Biedermeier poets.
Performer Biography
Stefan Laux, one of the artistic directors of this project, is the president of the South German Schubert Society and a founding member of the Naxos Deutsche Schubert-Lied-Edition.
Composer Biography
Schubert often made frequent and sometimes radical changes to Mayrhofer's poetry when setting it to music, unlike his approach to Goethe or Schiller's works.
Composer Biography
Johann Mayrhofer, a poet whose works Schubert frequently set to music, was one of Schubert's closest friends, and they even shared lodgings for two years.
Composition History
The Deutsche Schubert-Lied-Edition aims to publish all of Schubert's over 700 Lieder, grouped by the poets who inspired him, following the composer's original concept.
Historical Context
Johann Mayrhofer, a poet and close friend of Schubert, worked as an official censor in the "royal, imperial book-inspection office" in Vienna, a role he found conflicted with his own liberal ideals.
Performer Biography
Cornelius Hauptmann, the bass on this recording, has performed in opera houses across Europe and made numerous concert appearances with renowned conductors such as Gardiner, Bernstein, and Masur.
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