Schubert, Müller, and Die schöne Müllerin
- Author: Susan Youens, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
- Date Published: April 1997
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521563642
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The collaboration of Schubert and the poet Wilhelm Müller produced some of the best loved of nineteenth-century lieder - in particular the song cycle Die schöne Müllerin. Professor Youens shows us how this archetypal tale of love and rejection, which has its origins in medieval romance, Minnesong and popular German legend, is reflected in the poet's own experience, the realms of art and life intertwining. Professor Youens considers other poets' explorations of the theme of a miller maid and her suitors, and looks at other musical settings of Müller's mill poems. But 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 crucially altered Müller's vision when the poetic cycle became a musical text.
Read more- Offers a different interpretation of both poetry and music of one of the great masterpieces of German Romantic song
- Offers an introduction to settings of this poetry by nineteenth-century composers other than Schubert
- Contains an exploration of the characters from folksong and the medieval traditions
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- Date Published: April 1997
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521563642
- length: 264 pages
- dimensions: 254 x 182 x 23 mm
- weight: 0.62kg
- contains: 14 b/w illus. 30 music examples
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
List of examples
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Behind the scenes: the genesis of Wilhelm Müller's cycle
2. Variations on a poetic theme: hunters, millers and miller maids
3. Before and after Schubert: at the mill with other composers
4. 'Lilies that fester': sex and death in Müller's and Schubert's cycles
Notes
Select bibliography
Index.
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