Dichterliebe
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Composed in 1840, Dichterliebe is the best-known song cycle of Robert Schumann. The text for the songs comes from the Lyrisches Intermezzo of Heinrich Heine, published as part of the poet's Buch der Lieder. Author of the sarcastic die Romantische Schule, Heine was a vocal critic of German romanticism. Many of his poems are marked by a biting irony that mocks romantic convention. Scholars debate the extent to which Schumann, a romantic himself, understood Heine's irony, and chose to portray it through music.
Though Schumann originally set 20 of Heine's poems, only 16 appear in the first edition of Dichterliebe:
- Im wunderschönen Monat Mai (In the wonderful month of May)
- Aus meinen Tränen sprießen (From my tears there spring)
- Die Rose, die Lilie, die Taube, die Sonne (The rose, the lily, the dove, the sun)
- Wenn ich in deine Augen seh' (When I gaze into your eyes)
- Ich will meine Seele tauchen (I long to sink my soul)
- Im Rhein, im heiligen Strome (In the Rhine, the holy river)
- Ich grolle nicht (I do not complain)
- Und wüßten's die Blumen, die kleinen (If only the flowers could know)
- Das ist ein Flöten und Geigen (There is fluting and fiddling)
- Hör' ich das Liedchen klingen (When I hear the sound of the song)
- Ein Jüngling liebt ein Mädchen (A lad loves a girl)
- Am leuchtenden Sommermorgen (On a gleaming summer morning)
- Ich hab' im Traum geweinet (I wept in my dreams)
- Allnächtlich im Traume (All night in my dreams I see you)
- Aus alten Märchen winkt es (From old tales someone waves)
- Die alten, bösen Lieder (The old and evil songs)
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