This Irish language translation of the spooky German poem "Der Erlkönig" is dramatically voiced for some extra horror. Eoin Mc Evoy, who is an Educational Technologist at the University College ...

The American contralto Marian Anderson sings “Der Erlkönig,” part of our continuing series on the Schubert song, written when he was a teenager. I was talking to my mother on the phone the ...

As part of our continuing series on Schubert’s “Der Erlkönig,” here is Yuja Wang performing Liszt’s transcription of the song. I take this opportunity to share her performance because, as ...

His top-shelf songs include "An die Musik," "Ellens Gesang III" (a.k.a. "Ave Maria"), "Du bist die Ruh," and "Der Erlkönig," as well as the songs included in his beloved cycles Die schöne ...

Subject matter. Common poetic themes are love, longing and the beauty of nature. For example, Schubert’s lied Der Erlkönig (Erlking) is set to the words of the Romantic poet Goethe.