Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen ('Songs of a Wayfarer') is a song cycle by Gustav Mahler on his own texts. The cycle of four Lieder for medium voice (often performed by women as well as men) was written around 1884–85 in the wake of Mahler's unhappy love for soprano Johanna Richter, whom he met while conductor of the opera house in Kassel, Germany, and orchestrated and revised in the 1890s.
Original Name | Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen |
Librettist | Mahler, Gustav |
Date of composition | 1885 (1884-1885) |
Premiered | 1896, March 16th in Berlin, Germany by Gustav Mahler |
First published | 1897, Josef Weinberger in Vienna, Austria |
Type | Song(s) |
Approx. duration | 18 minutes |
Instruments |
Voice
- Low ;
Orchestra |
Autotranslations beta |
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