Classical song cycles in German

symphonic song cycle by Gustav Mahler

Winterreise (, Winter Journey) is a song cycle for voice and piano by Franz Schubert (D. 911, published as Op. 89 in 1828), a setting of 24 poems by German poet Wilhelm Müller. It is the second of Schubert's two song cycles on Müller's poems, the earlier being Die schöne Müllerin (D. 795, Op. 25, 1823).

thumb|upright=1.35|First volume of Schubert's Schwanengesang as originally published in 1829 Schwanengesang (Swan Song), 957, is a collection of 14 songs written by Franz Schubert at the end of his life and published posthumously: Liebesbotschaft (text: Ludwig Rellstab) Kriegers Ahnung (Rellstab) Frühlingssehnsucht (Rellstab) Ständchen (Rellstab) Aufenthalt (Rellstab) In der Ferne (Rellstab) Abschied (Rellstab) Der Atlas (Heinrich Heine) Ihr Bild (Heine) Das Fischermädchen (Heine) Die Stadt (Heine) Am Meer (Heine) Der Doppelgänger (Heine) Die Taubenpost (alternative: D 965a) (Joh

'''' (Songs on the Death of Children'') is a song cycle (1904) for voice and orchestra by Gustav Mahler. The words of the songs are poems by Friedrich Rückert.

Set of five songs by Richard Wagner

thumb|upright=1.2|Ruins of Gurre Castle, 2007 '''''''' (Songs of Gurre) is a tripartite oratorio followed by a melodramatic epilogue for five vocal soloists, narrator, three choruses, and grand orchestra. The work, which is based on an early song cycle for soprano, tenor and piano, was composed by the then-Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg from 1900 to 1903. After a break, he resumed orchestration in 1910 and completed it in November 1911. It sets to music the poem cycle Gurresange'' by the Danish writer Jens Peter Jacobsen (translated from Danish to German by ).

song cycle by Gustav Mahler

Dichterliebe, ''A Poet's Love (composed 1840), is the best-known song cycle by Robert Schumann (Op. 48). The texts for its 16 songs come from the Lyrisches Intermezzo'' by Heinrich Heine, written in 1822–23 and published as part of Heine's Das Buch der Lieder. Along with the song cycles of Franz Schubert (Die schöne Müllerin and Winterreise), Schumann's form the core of the genre in musical literature.

cycle of poems by Adalbert von Chamisso, set to song by composers including Robert Schumann

song cycle composed by Ludwig van Beethoven

song cycle composed by Robert Schumann

song cycle composed by Johannes Brahms

song cycle for four singers (or choir) and piano by Johannes Brahms

song cycle by Paul Hindemith