Schubert, Muller, and Die Schone Mullerin

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-521-02865-3
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 263 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 462 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Youens, Susan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Einzelne Komponisten und Musiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.