Once upon a time there was a composer and editor of a prestigious magazine, which in its articles treated colleagues who composed for voice and piano somewhat disdainfully because he believed that “music for voice was less important than music for orchestra.” The composer in question is called Robert Schumann and he said these words in 1839. In 1840, he wrote about 160 songs, which comprises more than half of his celebrated and most famous songs.

 

 

J.W. Goethe wrote his own version of "The Pied Piper of Hamelin", the poem Der Rattenfänger. We can hear this week the song composed by Hugo Wolf, performed by Thomas Allen and Geoffrey Parsons

We are celebrating today the Catalan Poetry Day on the Internet with the most well-known catalan art song, Damunt de tu, només les flors, performed by two great artists: Montserrat Caballé and Alicia de Larrocha.