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