Eichendorff

British  

/ ˈaiçəndɔrf /

noun

1. Joseph (ˈjoːzɛf), Freiherr von. 1788–1857, German poet and novelist, regarded as one of the greatest German romantic lyricists

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Example Sentences

Bullock announced that while putting the program together she had come across songs by Robert Owens, a little-known American composer who lived in Munich, Germany, and died in 2017 and who wrote songs in the style of Richard Strauss to texts by the 19th century poet Joseph von Eichendorff.

From Los Angeles Times

It’s typical of his approach that his excavation of brain science includes an extended riff about the translation of a brief poem by the 19th-century Prussian writer Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff.

From New York Times

Strauss set Joseph von Eichendorff’s poem to music at the end of his long life, and, lest anyone miss the fact that he was contemplating his own twilight, he inserted a quotation from his youthful tone poem “Death and Transfiguration.”

From The New Yorker

“Die Einsiedler,” a setting of Eichendorff, stands in for the whole: fastidious sensitivity; utter refinement; getting to the heart of every word and, through every word, to the heart of the song.

From New York Times

In the first-floor window is the birdcage and the canary recites an Eichendorff ode.

From The New Yorker