The LiederNet Archive

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The LiederNet Archive
FormerlyThe Lied and Songs Texts Page
The Lied, Art Song, and Choral Texts Archive
Available inEnglish
Headquarters
Canada
OwnerEmily Ezust
Created byEmily Ezust, Shawn Thuris (2019 redesign)
URL https://www.lieder.net/
CommercialNo
Launched1995
Current statusOnline
Written in Perl 5, DBIx::Class, Aurora (MySQL)
OCLC  number 456122816

The LiederNet Archive (formerly The Lied, Art Song, and Choral Texts Archive) is a donation-supported [1] web archive of art song and choral texts [2] founded in 1995 [3] by Emily Ezust of McGill University, an American/Canadian computer programmer and amateur violinist. The website was hosted by the REC Music Foundation from 1996 to 2015.

The LiederNet Archive provides access [4] to both original out-of-copyright song texts and copyright-protected translations submitted by over 1000 volunteer [5] translators. [6] The website is indexed by composer, text author, first line, title.

The LiederNet Archive is frequently cited as a source in musical studies, where the website's aggregate listings of settings of songs and poems may be more complete or more easily accessible than conventional musicological resources. [7]

References

  1. ↑ "Many Thanks to Our Generous Donors!", The LiederNet Archive
  2. ↑ The LiederNet Archive, OCLC   456122816
  3. ↑ "FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) and Links". The LiederNet Archive.
  4. ↑ Mark Valencia (26 January 1999). "The Lied and Song Texts Page – Site Seeing". Music & Vision Magazine.
  5. ↑ "Translators, Researchers, and Other Volunteers". The LiederNet Archive. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
  6. ↑ Low, Peter (2013). "Purposeful Translating: The Case of Britten's Vocal Music". In Minors, Helen Julia (ed.). Music, Text and Translation. A&C Black/Bloomsbury. p. 79. ISBN   9781441173089. An accessible place to find the texts of Britten's songs is Emily Ezust, 'The Lied, Art Song and Choral Texts Archive' ... It includes over 250 texts set by Britten, with some versions ...
  7. ↑ Philippe Cathé [in French]; Sylvie Douche [in French]; Michel Duchesneau [in French], eds. (2010). Charles Koechlin: compositeur et humaniste (in French). Vrin. p. 187. ISBN   978-2-7116-2316-7. Le site Internet d'Emily Ezust recense pas moins de 25 mises en musique des poèmes de Klingsor ... : «The Lied and Art Song Texts Page» ...[Emily Ezust's website lists no fewer than 25 settings of Klingsor's poems.]
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