The texts are all interpolations from the popular sentimental novel Sophiens Reise von Memel nach Sachsen by Johann Timotheus Hermes. Mozart composed these three songs between August 1781 and May 1782. Usually, a combination of these criteria is necessary to bestow on any song collection the title of song cycle.

It could be a musical connection: recurring devices and motifs, key relationships between songs, or perhaps a fixed performance order. On this album we illustrate the progress made by the great Lied composers of the day toward the cyclical perfection finally achieved by Beethoven and Schubert, and since emulated by Schumann, Loewe, Wolf, Fauré, Britten, Shostakovich and so many others.Ī song cycle is distinguishable from a collection of songs or a Liederspiel by some type of interior cohesion: a unifying theme, text from a single source, a narrative. The creation of the song cycle as a new art form in the early nineteenth century was paved with musical experiments and innovations.

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