German composers returned to lied creation in the nineteenth century. Late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Romanticism provided significant impetus to serious popular poetry, and many poems by masters like as Goethe were set by lied musicians. Richard Wagner was particularly influential with his four-part poem Der Ring des Nibelungen, which he wrote between 1853 and 1866. Wagner's work introduced a new seriousness into the genre that lasted well into the twentieth century. His is probably the most famous name among German-speaking composers who wrote songs. However, it was not until the beginning of the twentieth century that other young Germans began writing their own songs. One of the first was Ernst Krenek, who established himself as one of the leading voices of twentieth-century music. Krenek was born in Berlin on January 2, 1890. He studied piano and composition at the Berlin University of the Arts from 1908 to 1912. It was here that he came under the influence of Richard Strauss, whose tone poems he later incorporated into his own work. After graduating, he went to Paris where he met many modern musicians including Arnold Schoenberg, Igor Stravinsky, and Anton Webern.