Lenauheim, Romania
His birthplace in the Banat, renamed in his honour.
III · Legacy
Words set to music
Few poets have drawn composers as steadily as Lenau. From his own lifetime to the twenty-first century, his verse has been turned into Lieder, song cycles, a tone poem and an opera.
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Robert Schumann
Sechs Gedichte und Requiem, Op. 90 (1850)
Lenau died on the day of its Dresden premiere.
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Richard Strauss
Don Juan, Op. 20
Tone poem inspired by Lenau's unfinished Don Juan.
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Franz Liszt
Der traurige Mönch
Part of Liszt's late, Faust-haunted work.
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Othmar Schoeck
Notturno (1933)
Song cycle setting nine Lenau poems.
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Heinz Holliger
Lunea (2013)
A song cycle, later expanded into an opera of the same name.
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Marie Schauff
Gedichte von Lenau, Op. 3
Settings by a contemporary of the poet.
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Sophie Seipt
Die Nacht · Die Sennin
Two Lieder on Lenau texts.
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Pauline Volkstein
Lieder
Songs drawing on Lenau's poetry.
Places that remember him
Stockerau, Austria
Calls itself the "Lenau City" for the riverside walks that gave rise to the Schilflieder.
Weidling, Austria
His grave carries a stone open book inscribed with lines from "An Frau Kleyle" and the last stanza of "Vergangenheit".
Timișoara
The German Highschool in Timișoara is named "Nikolaus Lenau Lyzeum" after him.