Hi,
I have de-lurked from my silence in order to ask a question.
In my middle-aged madness, I have embarked on a career of composing music.
For my first piece, I have written some verses and composed some lines -
much in the manner of Schubert.
I was reading up on Schubert and Goethe, and it appears that the latter
deliberately composed poetry to be modified that it could be set to music.
The question I have is, modulo any copyright concerns, are any modern poets
out there who would be amenable to such a strategy?
How might, say, someone like Prynne react if I did set his poetry to music
but, along the way, managed to make the poetry serve the music?
Is this impossible with modern poets and poetry?
Regards Roger
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