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Franz Schubert's best known song cycles, like Die schöne Müllerin and Winterreise are based on separate poems with a common theme and narrative. Other song cycles are based on consecutive excerpts of the same literary work: Schubert's "Ave Maria" is part of such a song cycle based on excerpts of the same poem, in this case by Walter Scott .
Die schöne Müllerin (German pronunciation: [diː ˈʃøːnə ˈmʏlɐʁɪn],"The Fair Maid of the Mill", Op. 25, D. 795), is a song cycle by Franz Schubert from 1823 based on 20 poems by Wilhelm Müller. It is the first of Schubert's two seminal cycles (preceding Winterreise), and a pinnacle of Lied repertoire.
Winterreise (German pronunciation: [ˈvɪntɐˌʁaɪzə], Winter Journey) is a song cycle for voice and piano by Franz Schubert (D. 911, published as Op. 89 in 1828), a setting of 24 poems by German poet Wilhelm Müller.
From 1821 until his death Schubert was actively involved in publishing (usually small) groups of songs (the ‘Opus numbers’), usually with some unifying principle, be it the voice type (e.g. Opus 83, for the bass Louis Lablache), the theme (e.g. mortality in Opus 7) or the poet (e.g. Opus 3 Goethe, Opus 37 Schiller, Opus 80 Seidl).
12 cze 2021 · It is tremendous to have the three great Schubert song-cycles in one place from him: and, as we shall see, in one of them he is joined by a fortepiano as opposed to a modern grand. In this article on Andrè Schuen and Daniel Heide's Müllerin on DG, I outlined the structure of thr piece, with examples.
16 cze 2022 · With two defining song cycles, Die Schöne Müllerin (1823) and Winterreise (1827), Franz Schubert established himself as a master of the 19th-century lied. Written for tenor and piano and set to poems by Wilhelm Müller (1794-1827), both canvas a broad emotional spectrum as it relates to love.
28 wrz 2011 · Like Haydn, Schubert was guided by an established topos, or “topic” – one of numerous characteristic musical figures associated with various moods, scenes, and situations long familiar to Western Europe.
