Baerenreiter Verlag

Composer: Franz Schubert
Editor: Walther Durr
Format: Book, Urtext Edition
Voicing: Low Voice Singing Score

• Foreword by Walther Durr discussing the history of the work's composition and its transmission, together with a list of sources for each song (Ger/Eng)
• With an English translation of the song texts by Richard Wigmore

Walther Durr, one of the best-known Schubert scholars, has now edited the fourth volume of songs for high, medium and low voices as a continuation of the new Urtext edition of Schubert Lieder. This contains both the last books of lieder which Schubert himself saw into print together with individual lieder. These were printed during Schubert's lifetime in little-known sources, in periodicals and almanacs, but were not included by him in lieder volumes or published as works with their own opus number, together with lieder listed in the Deutsch catalogue as "undated" (D 990A to D 990C).

They were mostly written between 1826 and 1828.

The best-known settings in this volume are probably the fourteen lieder D 957 and D 965A drawn together as 'Schwanengesang' to poems by Ludwig Rellstab, Heinrich Heine and "Die Taubenpost" by Johann Gabriel Seidl. As this was Schubert's last major composition, the collection, posthumously published by Haslinger at the beginning of May 1829, later acquired the name 'Schwanengesang', the name traditionally given to an artist's last work.

Contents:

• Prefatory Note
• Preface
• Song texts
• Widerspruch op. 105, 1 D 865
• Wiegenlied op. 105, 2 D 867
• Am Fenster op. 105, 3 D 878
• Sehnsucht op. 105, 4 D 879
• Heimliches Lieben op. 106, 1 D 922
• Das Weinen op. 106, 2 D 926
• Vor meiner Wiege op. 106, 3 D 927
• An Silvia op. 106, 4 D 891
• Uber Wildemann op. 108, 1 D 884
• Todesmusik op. 108, 2 D 758
• Die Erscheinung op. 108, 3 D 229
• Widerschein D 639 - 2. Fassung
• Der Blumen Schmerz op. post. 173, 4 D 731
• An den Tod D 518
• Trost im Liede op. post. 101, 3 D 546
• Der blinde Knabe op. post 101, 2 D 833
• Im Fruhling op. post. 101, 1 D 882
• Der Vater mit dem Kind D 906
• Schiffers Scheidelied D 910
• Das Lied im Grunen op. post. 115, 1 D 917
• Fruhlingslied D 919
• Eine altschottische Ballade D 923 - 3. Fassung
• Der Wallensteiner Lanzknecht beim Trunk D 931
• Der Kreuzzug D 932
• Des Fischers Liebesgluck D 933
• Lebensmut D 937
• Der Winterabend D 938
• Herbst D 945
• Schwanengesang, D957. Dreizehn Lieder nach Gedichten von Rellstab und Heine:
  • 1. Liebesbotschaft
  • 2. Kriegers Ahnung
  • 3. Fruhlingssehnscht
  • 4. Standchen
  • 5. Aufenthalt
  • 6. In der Ferne
  • 7. Abschied
  • 8. Der Atlas
  • 9. Ihr Bild
  • 10. Das Fischermadchen
  • 11. Die Stadt
  • 12. Am Meer
  • 13. Der Doppelganger
• Die Taubenpost D 965 A
• Der Graf von Habsburg D 990
• Kaiser Maximilian auf der Martinswand in Tirol D 990 A
• Das Echo op. post. 130 D 990 C
• Anhang:
  • Widerschein D 639 - 1. Fassung
  • Eine altschottische Ballade D 923 - 2. Fassung
• Index of volumes 1 to 4