Complete Song Cycles by Franz Schubert

Complete Song Cycles by Franz Schubert

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.
Unabridged republication of three song cycles from Series 20 (Lieder und Gesänge) of Franz Schubert's Werke, Breitkopf & Härtel, 1985.

John Harbison is Institute Professor of Music at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Katrin Talbot is an award-winning photographer and violist who lives in Madison, Wisconsin. Susan Youens is Professor of Musicology at the University of Notre Dame. Louise McClelland Urban is Professor Emerita of Voice at the University of Maryland, College Park. Paul Rowe, baritone, and Martha Fischer, pianist, are Professors of Music at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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ISBN 13	9780486226491
ISBN 10	0486226492
Title	Complete Song Cycles
Author	Franz Schubert
Series	Dover Song Collections
Condition	Unavailable
Publisher	Dover Publications Inc.
Year published	1970-06-01
Number of pages	217
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.