Heinrich Heine
Christian Johann Heinrich Heine was a Jewish born German poet, writer and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which was set to music in the form of Lieder by composers such as Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert.
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Background
- Born in
- Düsseldorf
- Educated at
- Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinUniversity of GöttingenFrederick William University Berlin
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"Christianity - and that is its greatest merit - has somewhat mitigated that brutal Germanic love of war, but it could not destroy it. Should that subduing talisman, the cross, be shattered, the frenzi…"
"Art of the States: The Resounding Lyre - musical setting of Heine's poem "Halleluja"
"The whole system of symbolism impressed on the art and the life of the Middle Ages must awaken the admiration of poets in all times. In reality, what colossal unity there is in Christian art, especial…"
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1860
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Birth1931
Died
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