Literally meaning “Evening of Songs,” the Liederabend can be traced to the 19th-century salon tradition, wherein an intimate audience would gather to listen to a selection of “art songs” of the day. The German Lied (song) had existed in one way or another as far back as the 13thcentury, but in the genius hands of Franz Schubert and Hugo Wolf the genre reached its apotheosis, elevated from a folk-based, ballad form to the genre of musico-literary significance (featuring solo virtuoso singers with piano accompaniment) that one associates with the term today.
Performed by the Department of Music and Sacred Music students.
This recital is free, open to the public, and not ticketed.
Originally published at music.nd.edu.