Complete Song Cycles: Die Schöne Müllerin, Die Winterreise, Schwanengesang (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780486226491)

Practically without ancestry, the songs of Franz Schubert stand out as the crowning achievement of the lieder tradition. The directly appealing melodies, with their infinite variety and grace, and the highly evocative accompaniments, filled with graceful pianistic figures, lend these short masterpieces the rare distinction of encompassing greatness in a score of bars.
Schubert's three great song cycles are here reprinted directly from the definitive Breitkopf & Härtel Schubert-Gesammtausgabe. The volume comprises the universally known and beloved songs of Die schöne Müllerin (1823), the somber depth and picturesqueness of Die Winterreise (1827) and Schwanengesang (1828), one of Schubert's last works, a rich and masterly epilogue to the long series of his songs. Whether purely lyrical (as in Wohin?) or creating revolutionary atmospheric effects (as in Die Stadt or Der Doppelgänger), all of these songs show the composer to sure and powerful advantage.
In addition to the music and German texts, this volume also includes English translations of the texts by Henry S. Drinker, previously unavailable, that are especially designed to be sung to Schubert's melodies.

Author: Franz Schubert
ISBN-10: 0486226492
ISBN-13: 9780486226491
Publisher: Dover Publications
Language: English
Published: 06/01/1970
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.42lbs
Size: 12.20h x 9.40w x 0.46d

About the Author
Austrian composer Franz Schubert (1797-1828) was the first of the great Romantics. In addition to his nine symphonies, he wrote more than 600 Lieder (songs) as well as piano pieces, operas, and chamber music.