Schubert, Müller, and Die schöne Müllerin
The collaboration of Schubert and the poet Wilhelm Müller produced some of the best loved of nineteenth-century lieder—in particular Die schöne Müllerin. Professor Youens shows how this archetypal tale of love and rejection is reflected in the poet's own experience. She considers other poets' explorations of the subject, and looks at other musical settings of Müller's mill poems. 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 altered Müller's vision when the poetic cycle became a musical text.
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Schubert, Müller, and Die schöne Müllerin
The collaboration of Schubert and the poet Wilhelm Müller produced some of the best loved of nineteenth-century lieder—in particular Die schöne Müllerin. Professor Youens shows how this archetypal tale of love and rejection is reflected in the poet's own experience. She considers other poets' explorations of the subject, and looks at other musical settings of Müller's mill poems. 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 altered Müller's vision when the poetic cycle became a musical text.
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Schubert, Müller, and Die schöne Müllerin

Schubert, Müller, and Die schöne Müllerin

by Susan Youens
Schubert, Müller, and Die schöne Müllerin

Schubert, Müller, and Die schöne Müllerin

by Susan Youens

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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 Die schöne Müllerin. Professor Youens shows how this archetypal tale of love and rejection is reflected in the poet's own experience. She considers other poets' explorations of the subject, and looks at other musical settings of Müller's mill poems. 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 altered Müller's vision when the poetic cycle became a musical text.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521028653
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/02/2006
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 264
Product dimensions: 6.61(w) x 9.61(h) x 0.55(d)

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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