Liederabend is a site devoted to Art Song. Every Wednesday you will find a new post about... whatever. But always, always there is a song to listen.
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by Sílvia
In Joseph Haydn's immense production, the songs occupy a small place, he wrote about fifty; that means that there are twice as many symphonies as there are songs. They were, moreover, late works: the first ones are from 1781 when the composer was forty-nine. Prince Nikolaus Esterházy was likely not interested in the new genre that came from the north because otherwise [...]