The Love Songs of Hafiz | |
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Song cycle by Karol Szymanowski | |
Opus | 24 |
Text | poems by Hafez |
Language | German |
Composed | 1911 |
Performed | 1912 |
Scoring | voice 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.