Schumann: Dichterliebe, Op. 48 - 1. Im Wunderschönen Monat Mai - Fritz Wunderlich, Hubert Giesen

Schumann: Dichterliebe, Op. 48 - 1. Im Wunderschönen Monat Mai

Fritz Wunderlich, Hubert Giesen

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• Wunderlich
• Hubert
• Giesen
• Schumann
• Dichterliebe
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• Wunderschonen
• Monat
• Mai

[lostmywalletagain]

A lied that should be heard by all ears...

In the wonderfully lovely month of May,

When all the buds were bursting,

Then it was that in my heart

Love broke through.

In the wonderfully lovely month of May,

When all the birds were singing,

then it was I confessed to her

My longing and desire

[goncourt49]

Luminous, lovely, incomparable.

[GoApples]

@NinpoIkkan I wouldn't really know. But they got married in 1840 and Schumann started composing most of his lieder in the same year.

[NinpoIkkan]

@GoApples I think the set of songs were written right before they married, since he was still longing for her.

[wagneristhebest]

@irl4567 I was talking about SCHUMANN

[renascencewoman]

@GoApples no you don't. it's nice to read of appreciation and heart. ty!

[GoApples]

Beautiful. If you know the history of Dichterliebe, he actually wrote it right after he got married to his wife Clara. There was a huuuuuge legal battle with her father cause he didn't want them to marry. So I think that this song represents the longing and the beauty that love can represent, but that the reciprocation of love is not always certain.

Man, I sound like a huge hippie.

[sandro4646]

sob



[7stiga]

@irl4567 BTW, The dates would make him 9 days away from his 36th birthday - but i do agree with the dates and the place of death

[7stiga]

@irl4567 BTW, The dates would make him 9 days away from his 36th birthday.

[KazunePiano]

Where have I heard this song before..... i came upon it accidentally on shuffle on my ipod after i put a bunch of classical CDs on.

but i swear i have heard it somewhere..... is this in any popular media these days?

[tenor9216]

@wagneristhebest Good point ! It seems a bit uplifting but there's a great deal of nostalgy in it as well. Also, Heine was known as being a master of irony and sarcasm, and Schumann just understood that too well. In some poems in Dichterliebe and Liederkreis op. 24 (also by Schumann, with Heine poems), there are some phrases full or heart-wrenching sarcasm... I just love it