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One of the earliest settings of Hölderlin's poetry and perhaps the most famous is Schicksalslied by Brahms, based on Hyperions Schicksalslied.

Other composers of Hölderlin settings include Peter Cornelius, Hans Pfitzner, Richard Strauss ( Drei Hymnen ), Max Reger ( An die Hoffnung ), Alphons Diepenbrock ( Die Nacht ), Richard Wetz ( Hyperion ), Josef Matthias Hauer, Hermann Reutter ( an opera, a choral work, 18 songs ), Stefan Wolpe, Paul Hindemith, Benjamin Britten, Hans Werner Henze, Bruno Maderna ( Hyperion, Stele an Diotima ), Heinz Holliger ( the Scardanelli-Zyklus ), Hans Zender ( Hölderlin lesen I-IV ), György Kurtág ( who planned an opera on Hölderlin ), György Ligeti ( Hölderlin-Phantasien ), Hanns Eisler ( Hollywood Liederbuch ), Viktor Ullmann ( who wrote settings in Terezin concentration camp ), Wolfgang von Schweinitz, Walter Zimmermann ( Hyperion, an epistolary opera ) and Wolfgang Rihm.

Wilhelm Killmayer based in 1986 two song cycles Hölderlin-Lieder for tenor and orchestra on Hölderlin's latest poems.

Kaija Saariaho's Tag des Jahrs for mixed choir and electronics ( 2001 ) is based on four of these poems, Graham Waterhouse composed in 2003 Sechs späteste Lieder nach Hölderlin for ( singing and speaking ) voice and cello on six latest poems.