What instrument would most likely have been played at a salon in the home of an upper-class family in 1850? You decide to compose an art song based on a poem you’ve written. Strophic form with a repeated melody seems inappropriate for the piece. Instead, you choose form, in which the music changes throughout the piece.
The composer of the art song “Erikönig,” or “The King of the Elves,” is .
Robert Schumann’s “In the Wonderfully Lovely Month of May” is the first piece in a titled “A Poet’s Love.”