Leeuwe

Japanese: レーウェ

German composer. Along with Schubert, he is known as the perfector of the ballad (ballade) as a song. He studied music in Halle, near his birthplace, and completed theology and other studies at the university there. In 1820 he became cantor of the Jacobin Church in Stettin (now Szczecin, Poland), and the following year he became the city's music director and gymnasium teacher, remaining based in the city until 1866. During this time he traveled around Europe as a vocalist, and lived in Kiel in his later years. He left behind 368 songs, mainly ballads rich in dramatic expression, and particularly famous are "Erlkönig" (1818, poem by Goethe), "Mr. Orff" (1821), and "Heinrich the Birdcatcher" (1836), which were written around the same time as Schubert's work of the same name. He also composed unaccompanied choral pieces, operas, symphonies, and chamber music. → Lied

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Japanese:

ドイツの作曲家。シューベルトとともに，歌曲としてのバラード（バラーデ）の完成者として知られる。生地近くのハレで音楽を学び，同地の大学で神学ほかを修める。1820年シュテッティン（現ポーランドのシュチェチン）のヤコービ教会カントル，翌年市の音楽監督およびギムナジウム教師となり，1866年までこの地を本拠に活動。その間，声楽家としてもヨーロッパ各地に楽旅し，晩年はキールに住んだ。劇的表現力に富むバラードを中心に368曲にのぼる歌曲を残し，シューベルトの同名作とほぼ同時期に書かれた《魔王》（1818年，ゲーテ詩），《オルフ氏》（1821年），《鳥刺しハインリヒ》（1836年）などは特に有名。ほかに無伴奏合唱曲，オペラ，交響曲や室内楽曲もある。→リート

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