This document discusses art songs and two prominent composers, Franz Schubert and Johannes Brahms. It defines art songs as compositions for solo voice and piano that can be in through-composed or strophic form. Schubert, an Austrian composer, is described as one of the originators of the Romantic style and a pioneer of art songs, composing over 600. Brahms, a German composer, grew up surrounded by music and studied earlier composers, composing lieder, choral works, and symphonies. The document provides examples of famous compositions by each composer.