Max Müller), 'as a pledge of his friendship and admiration'. It was after he set these, in February 1827, that he discovered the full series of poems in Müller's book of 1824, Poems from the posthumous papers of a travelling horn-player, dedicated to the composer Carl Maria von Weber (godfather of Müller's son F. His intimate friend Franz von Schober had provided this book for him. Taschenbuch auf das Jahr 1823 ) published in Leipzig in 1823. Schubert found the first twelve poems under the title Wanderlieder von Wilhelm Müller. Die schöne Müllerin had become central to the performing repertoire and partnership of Schubert with his friend, the baritone singer Johann Michael Vogl, who introduced Schubert's songs to many people in their tours through Austria in the mid-1820s. Müller, a poet, soldier and Imperial Librarian at Dessau in Prussia (present-day east-central Germany), died in 1827 aged 33, and probably never heard the first setting of his poems in Die schöne Müllerin (1823), let alone Winterreise. The text consists of poems by Wilhelm Müller.

The two parts were also published separately by Tobias Haslinger, the first on 14 January 1828, and the second (the proofs of which Schubert was still correcting days before his death on 19 November) on 30 December 1828. Winterreise was composed in two parts, each with twelve songs, the first part in February 1827 and the second in October 1827. Although Ludwig van Beethoven's cycle An die ferne Geliebte ( To the Distant Beloved) was published earlier, in 1816, Schubert's cycles hold the foremost place in the genre's history. The two works pose interpretative demands on listeners and performers due to their scale and structural coherence. 25, 1823).īoth were originally written for tenor voice but are frequently transposed to other vocal ranges, a precedent set by Schubert himself. It is the second of Schubert's two song cycles on Müller's poems, the earlier being Die schöne Müllerin (D.

89 in 1828), a setting of 24 poems by German poet Wilhelm Müller. Winterreise ( German pronunciation:, Winter Journey) is a song cycle for voice and piano by Franz Schubert ( D.

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