Eichendorff

/ ˈaiçəndɔrf /

noun

1. EichendorffJoseph, Freiherr von17881857MGermanWRITING: poetWRITING: novelist Joseph (ˈjoːzɛf), Freiherr von. 1788–1857, German poet and novelist, regarded as one of the greatest German romantic lyricists

Example Sentences

It’s typical of his approach that his excavation of brain science includes an extended riff about the translation of a brief poem by the 19th-century Prussian writer Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff.

From New York Times

Strauss set Joseph von Eichendorff’s poem to music at the end of his long life, and, lest anyone miss the fact that he was contemplating his own twilight, he inserted a quotation from his youthful tone poem “Death and Transfiguration.”

From The New Yorker

“Die Einsiedler,” a setting of Eichendorff, stands in for the whole: fastidious sensitivity; utter refinement; getting to the heart of every word and, through every word, to the heart of the song.

From New York Times

In the first-floor window is the birdcage and the canary recites an Eichendorff ode.

From The New Yorker

In 1847, the German Romantic poet Joseph von Eichendorff told Clara Schumann that the lieder settings by her husband, Robert Schumann, had “given life to his poems for the first time.”

From New York Times