Liedn.

1852 J. C. Patteson Let. in C. M. Yonge Life J. C. Patteson (1874) I. iv. 89 He sang some of Medelssohn's [sic] Lieder very pleasantly.

1852 J. C. Patteson Let. in C. M. Yonge Life J. C. Patteson (1874) I. iv. 115 As soon as a Lied or Sonata began, away would go my books.

1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xxiii. 222 Percy sings a Spanish seguidella, or a German lied [etc.].

1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 274/2 The German lied, the sacred lied or chorale..was founded upon the ecclesiastical modes and remained unchanged until the days of the Minnesingers.

1924 M. Kennedy Constant Nymph xvi. 222 She listened sadly to German Lieder.

1947 A. Einstein Music Romantic Era xiv. 184 Berlioz, of course, also wrote lieder and various other kinds of songs.

1955 Times 16 May 11/5 Programme included operatic arias,..two groups of lieder and English and Italian songs.

1962 W. H. Auden Dyer's Hand (1963) 505 If one takes, say, a sea-shanty out of its proper context and listens to it on the gramophone as one might to a lied by Schubert, one is very soon bored.

1970 New Yorker 3 Oct. 36/1 Mother had a nice repertory of the more assailable lieder.

1936 H. Read Meaning of Art (ed. 2) 53 Thus we read in our newspaper that Miss X ‘is too deficient in variety of tone-colour to make a good lieder singer’.

1959 Times 27 Apr. 5/6 (heading) Miss Gerda Lammas: a great Lieder singer.

1937 Sunday Times 21 Feb. 7/1 In Lieder singing the words, or rather what is at the back of the words, play a large part in determining the appropriate musical style.

1960 Guardian 22 Apr. 9/2 An intimate tone and style are..essential, to lieder singing.