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Complete Song Cycles (Dover Song Collections) (English and German Edition)
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Complete Song Cycles (Dover Song Collections) (English and German Edition) Paperback - 1970

by Franz Schubert; Eusebius Mandyczewski [Editor]; Henry S. Drinker [Translator];

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Dover Publications, 1970-06-01. Paperback. Good. 9x0x12. Light wear to wraps. Pencil notes to a few pages.
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From the rear cover

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 & Hrtel Schubert-Gesammtausgabe. The volume comprises the universally known and beloved songs of Die schne Mllerin (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 Doppelgnger"), 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 Gesnge) of Franz Schubert's Werke, Breitkopf & Hrtel, 1985.

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Austrian composer Franz Schubert (1797-1828) was the first of the great Romantics. In addition to his nine symphonies, he wrote more than 600 Lieder (songs) as well as piano pieces, operas, and chamber music.