Frühlingsglaube

Frühlingsglaube
(Faith In Spring)

Music: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Words: Johann Ludwig Uhland (1787-1862)

This song is regarded as one of Schubert’s truly great works. This is Schubert’s only song to set to music the poetry of Johann Ludwig Uhland. In this music we experience optimism tempered by a sense of the reality of impending tragedy. Schubert himself was already sick by the time of this song’s composition in 1822. The poetry tells us of the beauty of spring’s blooming, but portends also of inevitable change whereby spring's beauty and vibrance must yield to winter and death. The tonality of the song wanders in and out of major and minor, seeming to hint at the inner back and forth emotions Schubert must have been feeling, and indeed which all of us feel at different times in our lives.

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.

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