Schubert, Die Schone Mullerin

By Susan Youens

Book Overview

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 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 ller's uneasy relationship to the tenets of Romanticism; the influence of Goethe, folk poems, and medieval poetry on Die sch ne M 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521422795
• ISBN13: 9780521422796
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.5"