MUS 353 Chapter 16: Lieder
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Like many of his later compositions, beethoven"s string quartet op. 130 was not particularly well received at first. Most contemporary performers and listeners preferred less demanding music. This explains in part the enormous popularity of the genre of song for solo voice and piano in the first half of the 19th century. German composers cultivated this genre with such intensity that it is often designated by its. Several important factors converged to give the lied its newfound prominence: The idealization of domesticity and the family. For much of the 18th century, german was not widely considered a literary or cultured language, not even in germany itself. Frederick ii ( the great ), king of prussia from 1740 until 1786, conducted official business in french, not german. Beginning around 1750, the works of several remarkable poets and playwrights began to change attitudes toward the german language. These writers included gotthold ephraim lessing, friedrich klopstock, johann wolfgang.
