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''ドイツ語:An die ferne Geliebte'' (''To the distant beloved''), Op. 98, is a composition by Ludwig van Beethoven written in April 1816. It is considered to be the first example of a song cycle by a major composer. ==Beethoven's ''ドイツ語:Liederkreis''== Beethoven's only song cycle was the precursor of a series of followers, including those of Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann and Carl Loewe. The setting is for a man's voice (usually tenor) with piano. The title page of the original edition (S. A. Steiner, Vienna) bore a dedication with permission to Fürst Joseph Franz von Lobkowitz, Duke of Raudnitz, a leading Austrian musical patron, in whose palace the Eroica Symphony was first performed in 1804; Beethoven also dedicated the six string quartets, Op. 18, the Eroica Symphony, Op. 55, the Triple Concerto, Op. 56, the C minor Symphony, Op. 67, the Pastoral Symphony, Op. 68, and the String Quartet, Op. 74 to him.〔Friedlaender (1924), pp. 45–70.〕 The text was written by a physician named Alois Isidor Jeitteles, probably at Beethoven's request. Then aged 22, Jeitteles published several short poems, economic in style, in Viennese magazines or almanacks, particularly 'Selam' and 'Aglaja', and was making his name by it. He was an active, selfless young man who later distinguished himself by working tirelessly for his patients during a dreadful cholera epidemic and mortality in Brno. Beethoven had already explored inward feelings of longing in his setting of Matthisson's ''ドイツ語:Adelaïde'', but in these poems the distance from the beloved is greater, the longing is more intense and stormier, and is no longer satisfied with merely the sound of her name, but is preoccupied with the clawing pain of separation which colours the whole surrounding landscape.〔Friedlaender (1924), p. 52.〕 Max Friedlaender regarded the entire composition as autobiographical in meaning, and the subject of the composer's longing to be none other than the ''ドイツ語:unsterbliche Geliebte'', the Immortal Beloved of his letters of July 1812. The whole sequence is through-composed, so that none of the songs stands alone. The different moods of the six episodes are expressed in different key and time signatures, working from E-flat major in the first song through G major (and briefly C major) in the second to A-flat major in the third and fourth, and thence back through C to E flat. With their underlying thematic linkage, each of the songs is carried without break into the next: a short bridge passage connects 2 and 3, and the last note of 3 is held through the first three bars of the accompaniment to 4 and proceeds into ''ドイツ語:Diese Wolken'' almost without a breath. The final strophes of 4 have an ''accelerando'' leading directly into the ''vivace'' of 5. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「An die ferne Geliebte」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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