Giorgos Kanaris/Thomas Wise - Songs Of Yearning: Sehnsuchtslieder

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770�1827) wrote his opus 98 in 1816; musicologists commonly describe An die ferne Geliebte (To the Distant Beloved) as the first ever song cycle. Franz Schubert (1797�1828) wrote his Schwanengesang (Swan Song) in 1828, the year of his death; the songs were posthumously made into a collection.