Schubert, Müller, and Die schöne Müllerin

Description

The collaboration of Schubert and the poet Wilhelm Müller produced some of the best loved of nineteenth-century lieder--in particular Die schöne Müllerin. Professor Youens shows how this archetypal tale of love and rejection is reflected in the poet's own experience. She considers other poets' explorations of the subject, and looks at other musical settings of Müller's mill poems. Above all she examines Müller's permutation of the literary legends as an exploration of erotic obsession, delusion, frenzy, disillusionment and death and the way in which Schubert altered Müller's vision when the poetic cycle became a musical text [Publisher description].

First Sentence

Seven years before Franz Schubert discovered the poetic cycle Die schone Mullerin (Im Winter zu lesen), or The Beautiful Miller Maid (To Read in Wintertime), in the first volume of Wilhelm Muller's extravagantly entitled anthology Sieben- und siebzig Gedichte aus den hinterlassenen Papieren eines reisenden Waldhornisten (Seventy-seven Poems from the Post-humous Papers of an Itinerant Horn-Player), a real-life drama surrounded the creation both of the poetry and the first musical settings of Muller's miller poems.

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Other Editions

• Schubert, Müller, and Die schöne MüllerinCambridge University Press1997-01-01
• Schubert, Müller, and Die schöne MüllerinPaperbackCambridge University Press2006-11-02