IDAGIO | Schubert: Hyperion Song Edition 25 - Die schöne Müllerin 00602448802033

Featuring

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Ian Bostridge
Graham Johnson
Franz Schubert
Miscellaneous

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Composer Biography

Schubert contracted syphilis in late 1822 or early 1823 and composed parts of Die schöne Müllerin during a hospital stay, suffering from the disease and its mercury treatment.

Composition History

Wilhelm Müller's poems for Die schöne Müllerin originated as an amateur Liederspiel, a type of party-game with music, in Berlin after the Napoleonic wars.

Composition History

Schubert's song cycle Die schöne Müllerin (The fair maid of the mill) was composed in October-November 1823 and published in five books in 1824.

Interpretation

This recording includes readings of five poems by Wilhelm Müller that Schubert chose not to set, restoring them to the original sequence and offering a new perspective on the cycle.

Historical Context

The story of the beautiful maid of the mill was the subject of Paisiello's opera L'amor contrastato or La bella Molinara (1788), which was performed in Vienna in 1822.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Schubert deliberately omitted the poem 'Das Mühlenleben' from his setting to make the miller-girl less characterized and more mysterious, enhancing the miller's obsessive passion.

Performer Biography

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, the reader on this album, is considered one of the 'fathers' of The Hyperion Schubert Edition due to his groundbreaking Schubert recordings in the 1970s.