This guide to Schubert's much-loved song cycle explores both the
music and the poetry from a variety of perspectives. It includes
biography and cultural history, literary interpretation, source
studies, and musical analysis. The genesis of both Wilhelm Muller's
poetry, which began as a literary salon game in 1816, and the
music, composed soon after Schubert discovered that he had
contracted syphilis, is discussed in the first two chapters, which
also include little-known information about the poet, the premier
of the cycle, and Eduard Hanslick's critiques later in the
nineteenth century. The chapters on the poetry discuss Muller's
uneasy relationship to the tenets of Romanticism; the influence of
Goethe, folk poems, and medieval poetry on Die schoene Mullerin;
and provide a reading of each of the poems, which are reproduced in
German and English translation. The last and lengthiest chapter
consists of brief analytical commentary on each of the twenty songs
in Schubert's masterpiece.
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