In this highly anticipated book, Eric Sams examines each of Johannes Brahms's 213 songs, translates the texts into English, and provides original commentary on points of musicology and literary detail. Sams here reveals for the first time the full extent of the poetry, fantasy, and humour of the com[...]
Focuses on the 242 published songs that Wolf wrote for voice and piano and discusses the Ibsen songs for voice and orchestra. This book provides translations and backgrounds to the original poems by Morike, Eichendorff and Goethe, and explores the Italian and Spanish sources from which the songbooks[...]