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Article: LEADERS IN THE LIED.(lieder singers)
- Article from:
- The New Leader
- Article date:
- December 13, 1999
- Author:
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ALTHOUGH all cultures have their art songs, the German lied may well be the most famous: I once received a shipment of records addressed to The New Lieder. Just as major Italian composers until recently had to write operas, so it used to be mandatory for their German-language counterparts to include lieder in their oeuvre. (Lied, plural lieder, means simply song, songs.) This tradition may have evolved from the body of exceptionally fine folk poetry in German, spurting on poets to emulate it, composers to set much of it to music. That, in turn, may have begotten legions of distinguished lieder singers, some also singing in other fields, some specializing in the lied.
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