The Love Songs of Hafiz

The Love Songs of Hafiz
Song cycle by Karol Szymanowski
The composer in 1922
Opus24
Textpoems by Hafez
LanguageGerman
Composed1911 (1911)
Performed1912 (1912)
Scoringvoice and piano

The Love Songs of Hafiz (German: Des Hafis Liebeslieder) is the name of two song cycles by Karol Szymanowski, Op. 24, with piano accompaniment, and Op. 26, with orchestral accompaniment. There are six songs in Op. 24, three of them orchestrated in Op. 26, and five additional songs, unique to Op. 26. They were composed in Vienna, Austria, in 1911 and 1914, respectively. The works represent a transition between the first and second periods of the composer's style.