Frauen-Liebe und Leben

Frauen-Liebe und Leben (A Woman's Love and Life) is a cycle of poems by Adelbert von Chamisso, written in 1830.

They describe the course of a woman's love for her man, from her point of view, from first meeting through marriage to his death, and after.

Selections were set to music as a song-cycle by masters of German Lied, namely Carl Loewe (1836), Franz Lachner (c1839), and Robert Schumann (1840).

[5] However, Frauenliebe und -leben has been used in a minority (approximately one third) of recently published secondary sources,[6] and also on some LP and CD covers.

This latter spelling is a 'correct' style of written German using the Ergänzungsstrich (i.e. suspended or hanging dash in a list of things),[7] although it does not accurately reflect the work's published title.

[12] These recordings are listed on CD in 1996:[17] Carl Loewe's Frauenliebe, for mezzo-soprano and piano, was published as his opus 60 in 1836.

[22] Franz Lachner (1803–1890) made a setting entitled Frauenliebe und -leben for soprano, horn (or cello) and piano as his Op.

[23] Like Schubert's Auf dem Strom, D. 943, it is part of the small repertoire of solo vocal music ensemble with horn.