Karl Ludwig Pfau was a German

Germany

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 poet, journalist, and revolutionary.

Poetry

Some of Ludwig Pfau's poetry has been used in the composition of Kunstlieder

Lied

is a German word literally meaning "song", usually used to describe romantic songs setting German poems of reasonably high literary aspirations, especially during the nineteenth century, beginning with Carl Loewe, Heinrich Marschner, and Franz Schubert and culminating with Hugo Wolf...

(or more popularly in English, Lieder). The German texts of fifteen of these works, most composed by Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian composer, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School...

, have been collected by Emily Ezust and housed on-line at The Lied and Art Song Texts Page, hosted by the REC Music Foundation. Seven of the fifteen texts are available in English translation in this collection.

Disambiguation

A different Ludwig Pfau (1573-1630) of Winterthur, Switzerland was a maker of tile stoves. Reference: Allingham, Margot (1999). Dutch Tiles: Introduction. Retrieved 2005-02-25.