Collection of 44 Lieder (songs for voice and piano) by Hugo Wolf
This article is about the 1891 set of Lieder by Hugo Wolf. For the 1852 collection of poems by Emanuel Geibel and Paul Heyse, see Spanisches Liederbuch.
Spanisches Liederbuch (English: Spanish songbook) is a collection of 44 Lieder (songs for voice and piano) by Hugo Wolf (1860–1903). They were composed between October 1889 and April 1890, and published in 1891. The words are translations into German by Emanuel Geibel (1815–84) and Paul Heyse (1830–1914) of Spanish and Portuguese poems and folk songs, published in a collection of 1852 also called Spanisches Liederbuch.[1][2][3]
Description
The collection is divided into two parts: 10 Geistliche Lieder (English: spiritual songs) and 34 Weltliche Lieder (English: secular or worldly songs). The Geistliche Lieder mostly relate to the Holy Family: Mary, Joseph, and Jesus. The Weltliche Lieder largely have erotic themes.
The poems are listed below, with attributions to poet and translator where known.[7] They are identified by their first lines. A few songs have a title; that is given in capital letters.