Dichterliebe

Dichterliebe
Song cycle by Robert Schumann
The composer in 1839
English	A Poet's Love
Opus	48
Text	poems from Lyrisches Intermezzo by Heinrich Heine
Composed	1840 (1840)
Dedication	Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient
Published	1844 (1844)
Movements	16
Scoring	voice (soprano or tenor) piano

Dichterliebe, A Poet's Love (composed 1840), is the best-known song cycle by Robert Schumann (Op. 48). The texts for its 16 songs come from the Lyrisches Intermezzo by Heinrich Heine, written in 1822–23 and published as part of Heine's Das Buch der Lieder. Along with the song cycles of Franz Schubert (Die schöne Müllerin and Winterreise), Schumann's form the core of the genre in musical literature.