Ian Bostridge, Julius Drake in Schubert and the Schumanns

Rückert, Schubert and the Schumanns

The literary giant Friedrich Rückert (1788-1866) was a prolific poet who wrote almost ten thousand poems. He was also a polyglot, dramatist, and orientalist, and he translated poems from Arabic. Rückert was a professor of oriental languages and culture at the universities of Würzburg and Heidelberg. Many great composers have performed his poems, including Franz Schubert, Robert and Clara Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Hugo Wolf, Paul Hindemith and Alban Berg. The most famous settings include Mahler's Rückert-Lieder.