Schubert, Die Schone Mullerin (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521422796)

This is a guide to both the music and the poetry of Schubert's much-loved song cycle, set to poems by the Prussian poet Wilhelm Mﾜller. Composed in 1823, this work is one of the greatest masterpieces of the song repertoire. The genesis of both the poetry and the music, composed soon after Schubert discovered that he had contracted syphilis, is discussed in the first two chapters. A chapter on the poetry considers Mﾜller's uneasy relationship to the tenets of Romanticism; the influence of Goethe, folk poems, and medieval poetry on Die sche Mﾜllerin; and a reading of each of the poems, which are reproduced in German and in English translation. The final chapter provides commentary on each of the twenty songs in the cycle.

Author: Susan Youens
ISBN-10: 0521422795
ISBN-13: 9780521422796
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/28/1992
Pages: 132
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.36lbs
Size: 8.49h x 5.42w x 0.31d