Der Müller Und Der Bach
Music: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Words: Wilhelm Müller (1794-1827)
Der Müller und der Bach (The Miller and the Brook) is from Schubert’s song cycle entitled Die Schöne Müllerin (The Miller’s Beautiful Daughter). The cycle was composed in 1823. The poems used for the cycle were written by Wilhelm Müller. Die Schöne Müllerin is considered the first great song cycle of the 19th century. The cycle tells a tragic story of a traveling journeyman who apprentices with a miller at a watermill next to a stream. The young man falls in love with the miller’s daughter. When he realizes his feelings are not shared by the beautiful girl, he drowns himself in the river.
This song is the 19th and second to last of Die Schöne Müllerin. At this point in the story the young man is overcome with jealousy due to his beloved falling for another man (the hunter). He has decided to drown himself in the brook. At the end of the song he goes under the water, finds rest, and asks the brook to sing on.
Franz Peter Schubert (Austrian) was an extremely prolific composer given he only lived to be 31 years of age. He wrote over 600 lieder, ten symphonies (including the “Unfinished”), liturgical music, operas, incidental music, and a large body of chamber music and solo piano music. Schubert was one of the great early Romantic era composers, and the cornerstone of German lieder.
Music: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Words: Wilhelm Müller (1794-1827)
Der Müller und der Bach (The Miller and the Brook) is from Schubert’s song cycle entitled Die Schöne Müllerin (The Miller’s Beautiful Daughter). The cycle was composed in 1823. The poems used for the cycle were written by Wilhelm Müller. Die Schöne Müllerin is considered the first great song cycle of the 19th century. The cycle tells a tragic story of a traveling journeyman who apprentices with a miller at a watermill next to a stream. The young man falls in love with the miller’s daughter. When he realizes his feelings are not shared by the beautiful girl, he drowns himself in the river.
This song is the 19th and second to last of Die Schöne Müllerin. At this point in the story the young man is overcome with jealousy due to his beloved falling for another man (the hunter). He has decided to drown himself in the brook. At the end of the song he goes under the water, finds rest, and asks the brook to sing on.
Franz Peter Schubert (Austrian) was an extremely prolific composer given he only lived to be 31 years of age. He wrote over 600 lieder, ten symphonies (including the “Unfinished”), liturgical music, operas, incidental music, and a large body of chamber music and solo piano music. Schubert was one of the great early Romantic era composers, and the cornerstone of German lieder.
Key of D Minor
Range : Octave plus half step : C# up to D
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Key of E Minor
Range : Octave plus half step : D# up to E
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Key of G Minor
Range : Octave plus half step : F# up to G
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