Baerenreiter Verlag

Composer: Franz Schubert
Editor: Walther Durr
Format: Book, Urtext Edition
Voicing: Medium Voice and Piano

• Famous song cycle, taken from the practical Complete Edition of Schubert Lieder, Volume 3
• Foreword by Walther Durr discussing the history of the work's composition and sources (Ger/Eng)
• With an English translation of the song texts by Richard Wigmore

In spring 1827 Schubert performed the first part of his best-known song cycle 'Winterreise' for his friends for the first time. At this time he assumed that he had set all the texts belonging to the cycle to music. Only later did he come across the complete cycle of 24 songs in Muller's volume 'Gedichte aus den hinterlassenen Papieren eines reisenden Waldhornisten' of 1824. As a result, he set the twelve further poems as a separate group, partly paraphrasing the songs in the first part and partly continuing them.

The appendices also contain four songs -- "Wasserflut", "Rast", "Mut", and "Der Leiermann" -- in Schubert's original keys before they were transposed down a tone by him or his publisher Haslinger.

Contents:

• Preface
• Song Texts
• Winterreise op. 89 D 911 [Februar - Herbst 1827] (Wilhelm Mller):
  • Erste Abteilung:
    • 1. Gute Nacht
    • 2. Die Wetterfahne
    • 3. Gefrorne Tranen
    • 4. Erstarrung
    • 5. Der Lindenbaum
    • 6. Wasserflut
    • 7. Auf dem Flusse
    • 8. Ruckblick
    • 9. Irrlicht
    • 10. Rast
    • 11. Fruhlingstraum
    • 12. Einsamkeit
  • Zweite Abteilung:
    • 13. Die Post
    • 14. Der greise Kopf
    • 15. Die Krahe
    • 16. Letzte Hoffnung
    • 17. Im Dorfe
    • 18. Der sturmische Morgen
    • 19. Tauschung
    • 20. Der Wegweiser
    • 21. Das Wirtshaus
    • 22. Mut
    • 23. Die Nebensonnen
    • 24. Der Leiermann
• Appendix:
  • 6. Wasserflut
  • 10. Rast
  • 22. Mut
  • 24. Der Leiermann