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Robert Reinick (22 February 1805 – 7 February 1852) was a German painter and poet, associated with the
Biografie Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Vertonung des Gedichts „Wie ist die Erde doch so schön”
* * * 1805 births 1852 deaths 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German male painters German poets Writers from Gdańsk People from West Prussia German male poets 19th-century poets 19th-century German writers 19th-century German male writers Artists from Gdańsk Düsseldorf school of painting {{Germany-poet-stub
Robert Reinick (22 February 1805 – 7 February 1852) was a German painter and poet, associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting
The Düsseldorf school of painting is a term referring to a group of painters who taught or studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Academy (now the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf or Düsseldorf State ...
. One of his poems, ''Dem Vaterland "Dem Vaterland" is a patriotic anthem written by Robert Reinick and set to music by Hugo Wolf.
History
Wolf, who unsuccessfully attempted to dedicate ''Dem Vaterland'' to Emperor William II, originally wrote it as a song for tenor and piano in 1 ...
'', was set to music by Hugo Wolf and another, ''The Flight into Egypt
The flight into Egypt is a story recounted in the Gospel of Matthew ( Matthew 2:13– 23) and in New Testament apocrypha. Soon after the visit by the Magi, an angel appeared to Joseph in a dream telling him to flee to Egypt with Mary and the i ...
'' was the libretto for a cantata by Max Bruch
Max Bruch (6 January 1838 – 2 October 1920) was a German Romantic composer, violinist, teacher, and conductor who wrote more than 200 works, including three violin concertos, the first of which has become a prominent staple of the standard ...
. He wrote the libretto to Schumann's opera Genoveva
''Genoveva'', Op. 81, is an opera in four acts by Robert Schumann in the genre of German Romanticism with a libretto by Robert Reinick and the composer. The only opera Schumann ever wrote, it received its first performance on 25 June 1850 at ...
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Reinick was born in Danzig (Gdańsk) and died in Dresden
Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label= Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth ...
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Biografie Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Vertonung des Gedichts „Wie ist die Erde doch so schön”
* * * 1805 births 1852 deaths 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German male painters German poets Writers from Gdańsk People from West Prussia German male poets 19th-century poets 19th-century German writers 19th-century German male writers Artists from Gdańsk Düsseldorf school of painting {{Germany-poet-stub