Literary context : Goethe as source and catalyst / Harry Seelig -- Franz Schubert : the prince of song / Susan Youens -- Robert Schumann : the poet sings / Rufus Hallmark -- Johannes Brahms : "Volkslied/Kunstlied" / Virginia Hancock -- Crosscurrents in song : five distinctive voices / Jürgen Thym -- Hugo Wolf : subjectivity in the Fin-de-Siécle Lied / Lawrence Kramer -- Gustav Mahler : romantic culmination / Christopher Lewis -- Richard Strauss : a lifetime of lied composition / Barbara A. Petersen -- Song cycle : journeys through a romantic landscape / John Daverio -- Performing lieder : the mysterious mix / Robert Spillman