Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Gesänge der Frühe (Songs of dawn), Op. 133, is a composition in five movements by Robert Schumann for solo piano. Composed in October 1853, it is one of Schumann's last compositions, composed three years before Schumann's death. By the time Schumann began work on these pieces, he was suffering from mental and emotional decline. Though the pieces exhibit clear formal, tonal and melodic organizational schemes, his dissolving focus and increasing insanity made the composition process difficult. The set was composed just five months before Schumann's attempted suicide and confinement to a mental institution. The set is dedicated to \"the high poetess\" Bettina von Arnim.Schumann's wife, Clara Schumann, wrote in her private diary, \"dawn-songs, very original as always but hard to understand, their tone is so very strange.\" Like many of Schumann's late works, the pieces are indeed difficult to understand. The music is very intimate and yet, at times, unsettling. The composer's mental collapse is seemingly foreshadowed in the music. The piece is probably Schumann's last coherent piano piece.The Swiss composer Heinz Holliger wrote a work for orchestra, choir and tape in 1987 under the same title, Gesänge der Frühe, which quoted Schumann and the German poet Friedrich Hölderlin."@en }
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- Gesänge_der_Frühe abstract "Gesänge der Frühe (Songs of dawn), Op. 133, is a composition in five movements by Robert Schumann for solo piano. Composed in October 1853, it is one of Schumann's last compositions, composed three years before Schumann's death. By the time Schumann began work on these pieces, he was suffering from mental and emotional decline. Though the pieces exhibit clear formal, tonal and melodic organizational schemes, his dissolving focus and increasing insanity made the composition process difficult. The set was composed just five months before Schumann's attempted suicide and confinement to a mental institution. The set is dedicated to \"the high poetess\" Bettina von Arnim.Schumann's wife, Clara Schumann, wrote in her private diary, \"dawn-songs, very original as always but hard to understand, their tone is so very strange.\" Like many of Schumann's late works, the pieces are indeed difficult to understand. The music is very intimate and yet, at times, unsettling. The composer's mental collapse is seemingly foreshadowed in the music. The piece is probably Schumann's last coherent piano piece.The Swiss composer Heinz Holliger wrote a work for orchestra, choir and tape in 1987 under the same title, Gesänge der Frühe, which quoted Schumann and the German poet Friedrich Hölderlin.".