Complete Song Cycles: Die Schöne Müllerin, Die Winterreise, Schwanengesang

by Franz Schubert and Annabeth Albert

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486226492
• ISBN13: 9780486226491
• Release Date: June 1970
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.4" x 12.2"