Composition database

This is the Composition Database of BMC, which includes information about works by composers that are either Hungarian or Hungarian by origin or live in Hungary.

Title of the work

Zwölf Lieder


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
Zwölf Lieder
Foreign language / English title
Zwölf Lieder
Subtitle
For voice and piano
Year of composition
1869

Type
Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s)
Number of players
2
Instrumentation
voice, pf.
Movements, parts
1. Die Welt ist so schön
2. Dein Angesicht
3. Dein ist mein Herz
4. Ich hab´ Dich geliebt!
5. Dass ich Dich liebe!
6. Mein Herz schmückt sich mit Dir
7. Die Harfe
8. Im April
9. Dir (V.)
10. Sonnenuntergang
11. O wenn es doch immer so bliebe
12. Brich, Brich o Meer

Text
HEINE, Heinrich; anonymous; BODENSTEDT, Friedrich Martin von; SCHAFFY, Mirza; BYRON, Lord; GEIBEL, Emanuel; LENAU, Nikolaus; TENNYSON, Alfred
Language
German
Publisher / Source
Private print by Schwertzig (1869)
Recordings
SZFJCD001, 2021 - Zsófia Staszny (S.), Lóránt Najbauer (Bar.), János Ferenc Szabó (pf.) (No. 6, No. 8 and No. 12)
Remarks, other info
Composed: 1864 - 1869

Based on poems by Heinrich Heine, Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt, Mirza Schaffy, Lord Byron, Emanuel Geibel, Nikolaus Lenau, Alfred Tennyson and unknown authors