Winterreise

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Winterreise is a renowned song cycle by Franz Schubert that sets Wilhelm Müller’s poems to music, depicting a bleak winter journey marked by emotional desolation and existential reflection.

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Winterreise canonical 4
song cycle Winterreise 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Liederzyklus
song cycle
associatedMotif death and resignation
wandering outsider
winter landscape
catalogueNumber D. 911
closingSong Der Leiermann
composer Franz Schubert
composerNationality Austrian
compositionPeriod Romantic era
cycleOrder second major song cycle by Schubert
dateComposed 1827
firstPartPoemsCount 12
firstPublicationYear 1828
genre Lieder
classical music
hasForm through-composed songs
historicalReputation one of the greatest song cycles in Western classical music
influenced later Romantic song cycles
keyWorkOf Franz Schubert
language German
literaryMovement Jena Romanticism
surface form: German Romanticism
mood bleak
introspective
narrativePerspective first-person wanderer
notableSong Der Leiermann
Der Lindenbaum
Gute Nacht
numberOfSongs 24
openingSong Gute Nacht
originalInstrumentation voice and piano
originalPoetNationality German
placeOfComposition Vienna
poet Wilhelm Müller
predecessorWork Die schöne Müllerin
publisher Tobias Haslinger
secondPartPoemsCount 12
textCycleTitle Winterreise self-link
textSource poetry collection by Wilhelm Müller
theme alienation
emotional desolation
existential reflection
loneliness
lost love
winter journey
typicalPerformanceDuration about 70 minutes
vocalRange typically tenor or baritone

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Franz Schubert notableWork Winterreise
Winterreise textCycleTitle Winterreise self-link
Wilhelm Müller notableWork Winterreise
Wilhelm Müller wroteTextFor Winterreise
this entity surface form: song cycle Winterreise
Schwanengesang followsInOeuvre Winterreise