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Carl Maria von Weber

1786–1826

German version

Songs with Guitar • Divertimento

Carl Maria von Weber’s songs with guitar accompaniment — essentially his opp. 13 (Fünf Gesänge), 25 (Fünf deutsche Lieder) and 29 (Drei Canzonetten) together with Volks­lieder opp. 54 and 64 — were composed mainly during the years 1810 and 1811, which he spent in Darmstadt as a pupil of Abbé Vogler. Together with the composers Johann Gänsbacher and Gottfried Weber he formed a “Harmonischer Verein” (“Harmonic Society”), and it was probably Gänsbacher’s own songs with guitar accompaniment in particular that led the three composers to explore this combination extensively. Liebes­zauber and Sanftes Licht, however, had already been composed in 1807, and Carl Maria von Weber later completed the op. 13 collection in Darmstadt by adding three further songs
Apart from his songs, Weber also used the guitar repeatedly in other works, most importantly in his Divertimento for piano and guitar, op. 38, composed in 1816.

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