The texts for Schubert's two great song cycles, Die schöne Müllerin and Die Winterreise, were taken from a volume of verse by Prussian poet Wilhelm Müller.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Schubert had an innate ability to convey the dramatic or emotional essence of each text he set to music.
Recording & Production
This recording was made in November 2004 at the George Weston Recital Hall in the Toronto Centre for the Arts.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin is described as a metaphor for the Romantic conviction that true love on earth finds fulfillment only in death.
Performer Biography
Michael Schade, the tenor on this recording, is an internationally acclaimed German-Canadian singer considered one of the leading Mozart tenors today.
Composer Biography
Franz Schubert, a Viennese composer, wrote over 600 songs (Lieder) for voice and piano during his short life.
Composition History
Schubert wrote the first of his 'Müllerin' songs while hospitalized for syphilis, an incurable and fatal venereal disease at the time.
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