The Cambridge Companion to Schubert's ‘Winterreise'

Marjorie W. Hirsch, Lisa Feurzeig

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9781108832847
• eBook ISBN:
  9781108967341
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Music History & Criticism

Organized in five parts, this Companion enhances understanding of Schubert's Winterreise by approaching it from multiple angles. Part I examines the political, cultural, and musical environments in which Winterreise was created. Part II focuses on the poet Wilhelm Müller, his 24-poem cycle Die Winterreise, and changes Schubert made to it in fashioning his musical setting. Part III illuminates Winterreise by exploring its relation to contemporaneous understandings of psychology and science, and early nineteenth-century social and political conditions. Part IV focuses more directly on the song cycle, exploring the listener's identification with the cycle's protagonist, text-music relations in individual songs, Schubert's compositional 'fingerprints', aspects of continuity and discontinuity among the songs, and the cycle's relation to German Romanticism. Part V concentrates on Winterreise in the nearly two centuries since its completion in 1827, including lyrical and dramatic performance traditions, the cycle's influence on later composers, and its numerous artistic reworkings.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Series page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Music Examples
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Note on Pitch
• Chronology
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction: An Endless Winter Journey
• Part I Schubert’s Winterreise and Its Musical Heritage
• Part II Die Winterreise: Poetic Cycle
• Part III Cultural and Historical Contexts
• Part IV Winterreise: Song Cycle
• Part V Winterreise After 1827
• Appendix: Texts and Translations
• Guide to Further Reading
• Index