Description
Franz Schubert’s song cycle Winterreise, to poems by Wilhelm Müller, is regarded as one of the absolute highpoints of the genre. It was composed in 1827 and first published in two volumes in 1828 by Tobias Haslinger of Vienna. Its initial reception was mixed – one reviewer in Berlin found it simply too long with its 24 songs, and Schubert’s friend Schober only liked the “Lindenbaum” – but the Viennese press praised the “beautiful, noble work” enthusiastically, thereby anticipating the unanimously positive opinion of it that reigns today.
Franz Schubert wrote his “Winterreise” for high voice, but it has always been performed in all voice ranges. G. Henle Publishers therefore also makes available editions in middle and low transposition, the preparation of which was supervised by the renowned lied expert Jan Philip Schulze.
