Donald Satz wrote:

>This might be a dumb question, but I'll ask it anyways.  Singers of
>lieder rarely play the piano part themselves - why?  Reynaldo Hahn
>did both.

While my experience singing lieder was limited to my vocal studies as
an undergraduate, from a musical perspective, most of the lieder I sang
had rather substantial piano parts.  I doubt I could have done justice
to the accompaniments while singing.  It also seemed that the piano parts
had more of a life of their own and that lieder is really more of a
collaboration.

Karl