The LiederNet Archive
online repository of texts and translations of art songs and choral works
The LiederNet Archive (formerly The Lied, Art Song, and Choral Texts Archive) is a donation-supported web archive of art song and choral texts founded in 1995 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 to both original out-of-copyright song texts and copyright-protected translations submitted by over 1000 volunteer translators. 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.
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