Song cycle
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A song cycle is a group or cycle of individually complete songs designed to be performed in sequence as a unit.
Benjamin Britten in 1968
First volume of Schubert's Schwanengesang as originally published in 1829
Winterreise
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Winterreise is a song cycle for voice and piano by Franz Schubert, a setting of 24 poems by German poet Wilhelm Müller. It is the second of Schubert's two song cycles on Müller's poems, the earlier be
Song cycle
…Geliebten (J. 200-3, \Op. 46) by Carl Maria von Weber. The genre was firmly established by the cycles of Schubert; his Die schöne Müllerin (1823) and Winterreise (1827), settings of poems by Wilhelm Müller, are among his most greatly admired works. Schubert's Schwanengesang (1828), though collected posthumously…
A 1910 postcard with a painting, by Otto Robert Nowak, of Schubert in the snow
Wilhelm Müller
Julius Schmid's 1897 painting, Schubertiade
Ingo Kühl "Der Lindenbaum" Oil on canvas 100 x 100 cm, 1996