Editing Carl Loewe (section)

==Works==
{{Main|List of compositions by Carl Loewe}}
Loewe wrote five [[opera]]s, of which only one, ''{{Lang|de|Die drei Wünsche}}'', was performed at Berlin in 1834, without much success; seventeen oratorios, many of them for male voices unaccompanied, or with short instrumental interludes only; choral ballads, [[cantata]]s, three [[string quartet]]s (his opus 24,<ref>{{cite web|title=The Wurlitzer Collection |url=http://www.libraries.uc.edu/libraries/ccm/special_collections/WurlitzerCollection.html |access-date=2008-07-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081006110209/http://www.libraries.uc.edu/libraries/ccm/special_collections/WurlitzerCollection.html |archive-date=2008-10-06 }}</ref>) and a pianoforte trio;<ref>in G minor, his opus 12, broadcast – see [http://www.ndrkultur.de/programm/programmueberblick/programmuebersicht/nkult858.pdf here]{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> a work for [[clarinet]] and [[piano]], published posthumously; and some piano solos.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

But the branch of his art by which he is remembered is the solo ballad with pianoforte accompaniment. His treatment of long narrative [[poem]]s, in a clever mixture of the dramatic and [[Lyric poetry|lyrical]] styles, was undoubtedly modelled on the ballads of [[Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg]], and has been copied by many composers since his day. His settings of the "Erlkönig" (a very early example), "Archibald Douglas" on a text by [[Theodor Fontane]], "{{Lang|de|Heinrich der Vogler}}", "Edward" on a translation by [[Johann Gottfried Herder]] of [[Edward (ballad)|a British ballad]], and "{{Lang|de|Die verfallene Mühle}}", are particularly fine.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

There are at least two symphonies by Loewe – one, in D minor, has been recorded on the [[Koch Schwann]] label together with the first of at least two CD recordings of Loewe's second piano concerto (in A major), and another, in E minor, was given its first performance in 170 years in November 2004.<ref>{{cite web|title=2004 Loewe Festtage Program, with Premiere of E-minor Symphony|url=http://www.carl-loewe-gesellschaft.de/?cid=104125000818|language=de|access-date=2008-07-16}}</ref> (The [[Classic Production Osnabrück|cpo]] series of recordings of Loewe's complete ballads includes as well a recording of two [[piano sonata]]s and a "[[tone poem]] in sonata form", with one of the sonatas – the E major of 1829 – having a vocal part for soprano and baritone.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.recordsinternational.com/archive/RICatalogJuly97.html|
title=Records International Description of cpo Loewe Sonatas CD|date=July 1997|access-date=2008-07-16}}</ref>)

In 1875, at [[Bayreuth]], [[Richard Wagner]] remarked of Loewe, "{{Lang|de|Ha, das ist ein ernster, mit Bedeutung die schöne deutsche Sprache behandelnder, nicht hoch genug zu ehrender deutscher Meister, echt und wahr!}}" (Ha, that is a serious German Master, authentic and true, one who uses the beautiful German language with meaning, one who cannot be sufficiently revered!).<ref>[[Hans Joachim Moser]], ''Das Deutsche Lied seit Mozart'' (Berlin 1937), p. 135, note 2.</ref>