The Carl Loewe Song Companion

Carl Loewe Song Companion is the first book in any language to deal in detail with some 250 songs by Loewe, the texts of which appear in the book in parallel translation.
Carl Loewe Song Companion is the first book in any language to deal in detail with some 250 songs by Loewe, the texts of which appear in the book in parallel translation.In this pioneering publication, Richard Stokes, the UK’s acknowledged foremost translator of Lieder poetry, brings together some 250 of the song and ballad texts set by Schubert’s unjustifiably neglected contemporary Carl Loewe (1796-1869), in German and English parallel texts, with illuminating essays on each of the poets.Known as the ‘North German Schubert’, and rewarded with the degree of success and celebrity in Vienna that was denied Schubert during his lifetime, Carl Loewe composed a huge number of ballads that remain popular in performance throughout Europe and have been recorded many times. Audience