The song "Das Veilchen" was written to a poem by a writer that died in what year?
Das Veilchen "Das Veilchen " ("The Violet"), K. 476, is a song for voice and piano by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, written in Vienna on 8 June 1785, to a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Mathilde Wesendonck Mathilde Wesendonck (23 December 182831 August 1902) was a German poet and author. She is best known as the friend and possible paramour of Richard Wagner, who set five songs to her words, called the "Wesendonck Lieder".