[1] Dehmel, known for naturalistic and expressionist writing, published a collection titled Weib und Welt (Woman and World) in 1896.

[1] He was convicted of obscenity and blasphemy based on this collection,[2] based on a single poem, "Venus Consolatrix", which compared Mary Magdalene to the Roman goddess Aphrodite, the symbol of beauty, life, and sexuality.

[1] Vier Lieder are known to be composed at the beginning of Schoenberg's break from tonality.

Many of his earlier songs were reminiscent of the Romantic Era, influenced from Richard Wagner and Johannes Brahms.

For example in the second song of the cycle, Schenk mir deinen goldenen Kamm, the form can be considered ternary since it has a short recapitulation.