| Major Poets and Writers |
Dates |
Major Work |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
1749-1832 |
SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER
FAUST |
| Jean Paul [Richter] |
1763-1825 |
THE TITAN |
| Friedrich Schiller |
1759-1805 |
DON CARLOS
WILLIAM TELL |
| Novalis |
1772-1801 |
HEINRICH VON OFTERDINGEN |
| Friedrich Schlegel |
1772-1829 |
Poems like DER WANDERER |
| E.T.A. Hofmann |
1776-1822 |
TALES |
| Heinrich von Kleist |
1777-1811 |
DER PRINZ VON HOMBERG |
Achim von Arnim &
Clemens Brentano |
1781-1831
1778-1842 |
DES KNABEN WUNDERHORN (a
folk collection) |
| Joseph von Eichendorff |
1778-1857 |
LIEDERKREIS POEMS
(set by Schumann) |
| Adalbert von Chamisso |
1781-1838 |
FRAUENLIEBE UND-LEBEN poems (set
by Schumann) |
Jakob Grimm
& Wilhelm Grimm |
1785-1863
1786-1859 |
FAIRYTALES |
| Ludwig Uhland |
1787-1862 |
BALLADS: (ex DER WIRTIN TÖCHTERLEIN) |
| Friedrich Rückert |
1788-1866 |
KINDERTOTENLIEDER
(set
by Mahler)
Poems (5 set
by Mahler) |
| Franz Grillparzer |
1791-1872 |
DES MEERES UND DER
LIEBE WELLEN |
| Wilhelm Müller |
1794-1827 |
DIE WINTERREISE
(set
by Schubert) |
| Heinrich Heine |
1797-1856 |
DAS BUCH DER LIEDER |
| Nikolaus Lenau |
1802-1850 |
DON JUAN |
| Major Visual Artists |
| Caspar David Friedrich |
1774-1840 |
THE POLAR SEA
THE WANDERER |
The Nazarenes:
Peter von Cornelius
Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld |
1783-1867
1794-1872 |
FAUST & MEPHISTOPHELES
NIEBELUNGENLIED FRESCOS |
| Moritz von Schwind |
1804-1871 |
Frescos in Wartburg Castle
& Vienna Opera |
| Karl Friedrich Lessing |
1808-1880 |
LANDSCAPE WITH A WANDERER |
| Major Composers |
| Ludwig Van Beethoven |
1770-1827 |
9 Symphonies
AN DIE FERNE GELIEBTE
FIDELIO |
| Carl Loewe |
1796-1869 |
Ballads, among them
DER ERLKÖNIG |
| Franz Schubert |
1797-1826 |
Over 600 songs, among them
DIE WINTERREISE
|
| Felix Mendelssohn |
1809-1847 |
80 songs +
ELIJAH
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM |
| Robert Schumann |
1810-1856 |
Songs, among them:
20 LIEDER & GESÄNGE VON
HEINRICH HEINE
LIEDERKREIS
FRAUENLIEB-UND LEBEN
MYRTHEN |
| Richard Wagner |
1813-1883 |
THE RING OF THE NIBELUNGEN
TRISTAN UND ISOLDE
LOHENGRIN
PARSIFAL |
| Robert Franz |
1815-1892 |
Over 350 songs, among them settings of Burns, Eichendorff,
Heine & Müller |
| Johannes Brahms |
1833-1897 |
EIN DEUTSCHES REQUIEM
Over 200 songs, among them
DIE SCHÖNE MAGELONE |
| Hugo Wolf |
1860-1903 |
Over 250 songs, among them:
SPANISCHES LIEDERBUCH |
| Gustav Mahler |
1860-1911 |
10 symphonies; songs among them:
DES KNABEN WUNDERHORN settings
KINDERTOTENLIEDER
RÜCKERT LIEDER
LIEDER EINES FAHRENDEN
GESELLEN |
| Richard Strauss |
1864-1949 |
songs, among them:
4 LAST SONGS
operas as ROSENKAVALIER
ARIADNE AUF NAXOS
ALSO SPRACH ZARATHUSTRA |
| Major Poets and Writers |
Dates |
Major Work |
| Robert Burns |
1759-1796 |
THE SCOTS MUSICAL
MUSEUM
Poems & Songs, among them
AULD LANG SYNE &
TAM O'SHANTER |
| William Blake |
1757-1827 |
SONGS OF INNOCENCE
& EXPERIENCE
MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN
& HELL
MILTON
JERUSALEM |
| William Wordsworth |
1770-1850 |
LYRICAL BALLADS
TINTERN ABBEY
THE PRELUDE |
| Sir Walter Scott |
1771-1832 |
THE MINSTRELSY OF
THE SCOTTISH
BORDER
IVANHOE
THE LADY OF THE LAKE
WAVERLY NOVELS |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
1772-1834 |
KUBLA KHAN
RIME OF THE
ANCIENT MARINER
A DEJECTION ODE
BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA |
| Charles & Mary Lamb |
1775-1834
|
ESSAYS OF ELIA
TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE |
| Jane Austen |
1775-1817 |
PRIDE & PREJUDICE
SENSE & SENSIBILITY
NORTHANGER ABBEY
EMMA |
| William Hazlitt |
1778-1830 |
TABLE TALK
THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE
CHARACTERS OF
SHAKEPEARE |
| Leigh Hunt |
1784-1859 |
Poet & journalist, best remembered for editing
THE EXAMINER |
| Thomas De Quincey |
1785-1859 |
CONFESSIONS OF
AN OPIUM EATER |
| George Gordon, Lord Byron |
1788-1824 |
DON JUAN
CHILDE HAROLD'S
PILGRIMAGE |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley |
1792-1822 |
ADONAIS
PROMETHEUS UNBOUND
EPIPSYCHIDION |
| John Keats |
1795-1821 |
ODES
THE EVE OF ST. AGNES
ENDYMION |
| Mary Wollonstonecraft Shelley |
1797-1851 |
FRANKENSTEIN |
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| Major Visual Artists |
| John Henry Fuseli |
1741-1825 |
THE NIGHTMARE
THREE WITCHES
FROM MACBETH |
| William Blake |
1757-1827 |
Engravings for his poetry, among them:
THE FIRES OF ORC
THE BOOK OF LOS
THE VISIONS OF THE
DAUGHTERS OF
ALBION |
| Joseph Turner |
1775-1851 |
THE SHIPWRECK
THE FIGHTING TEMERAIRE |
| John Constable |
1776-1837 |
DEDHAM VALE
SALISBURY CATHEDRAL |
| Major Composers |
Thomas Moore/
Sir John Stevenson |
1779-1852
1761-1833 |
IRISH MELODIES
|
| Thomas Attwood |
1765-1838 |
Settings from Scott's
LADY OF THE LAKE |
| Sir Henry Bishop |
1786-1855 |
HOME SWEET HOME |
| Arthur Sullivan |
1842-1900 |
THE MIKADO
PIRATES OF PENZANCE |
| Charles Villiers Stanford |
1852-1924 |
SONGS OF FAITH
SAVONAROLA
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING |
| Frederick Delius |
1862-1934 |
A VILLAGE ROMEO & JULIET
SEA DRIFT |
| Ralph Vaughan Williams |
1872-1958 |
A SEA SYMPHONY
ON WENLOCK EDGE |
| Samuel Coleridge Taylor |
1875-1912 |
SONG OF HIAWATHA |
