What were the dates of Carl Zelter?

Lieder before Schubert is considered serious art music T or F?

What Schubert composition is said to have revolutionized lieder?

What year was Schubert's Gretchen am Spinnrade composed?

Name the composer: "The noble simplicity of song"

What were the dates of E.T.A Hoffman?

"the very nature of the lied is to stir the innermost soul by means of the simplest melody and the simplest modulation..."

“the greater part of our ills are of our own making, and we might have avoided them, nearly all, by adhering to that simple, uniform, and solitary manner of life which nature has prescribed”

leading figures in the literary movement towards simplicity:

thesis: 18th c. lieder was concerned with simplicity and naturalness, while art was corrupt and unnecessarily complicated

What were the dates of Franz Schubert

What were the dates of Hugo Wolf?

Dates of Clara Schumann?

Dates of Robert Schumann?

Year was Robert Schumann's "Year of Song" (Liederjahr)?