Reynaldo Hahn, a Venezuelan-born French composer, set the poem 'À Chloris' by the Huguenot poet Théophile de Viau in 1916 as a pastiche of J.S. Bach's 'Air on a G String'.
Composer Biography
Robert Schumann, the composer of Dichterliebe, visited Heinrich Heine, the poet whose texts he set, when Schumann was 18 and Heine was 30.
Interpretation
Countertenor Yaniv d'Or performs Schumann's Dichterliebe in keys typically for a bass voice, with the vocal line raised an octave.
Composition History
Robert Schumann composed nearly 150 Lieder, including the Dichterliebe cycle, in 1840, the year he won his legal battle to marry Clara Wieck.
Composer Biography
Claude Debussy, the French composer, earned money as a student by accompanying amateur soprano Madame Vasnier, who inspired his first song compositions.
Compositional Technique
Schumann's Dichterliebe maintains the aphoristic brevity of Heinrich Heine's poems, often running one song into the next for a continuous flow, a new concept for the form.
Performer Biography
Yaniv d'Or, a countertenor, previously explored his Sephardic Jewish heritage through folk songs on two albums, 'Liquefacta Est' and 'A La Una Yo Naci'.
