Frauenliebe und -leben (A Woman's Love and Life) is a cycle of poems by Adelbert von Chamisso, written in 1830. They describe the course of a woman's love for her man, from her point of view, from first meeting through marriage to his death, and after. Selections were set to music as a song-cycle by masters of German Lied, namely Carl Loewe, Franz Paul Lachner and Robert Schumann. The setting by Schumann (his opus 42) is now the most widely known.
| Original Name | Frauenliebe und -leben |
| Librettist | Adelbert von Chamisso |
| Date of composition | 1840 |
| First published | 1843, Whistling in Leipzig, Germany |
| Type | Lieder |
| Catalogue | Op. 42 |
| Spoken language | German |
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Piano |
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