I like these songs better than all the rest, and someday you will too, Franz Schubert told the friends who were the first to hear his song cycle, Winterreise. These lieder have always found admiring audiences, but the poetry he chose to set them to has been widely regarded as weak and trivial. In Retracing a Winter's Journey, Susan Youens looks not only at Schubert's music but at the poetry, drawn from the works of Wilhelm Mller, who once wrote in his diary, perhaps there is a kindred spirit somewhere who will hear the tunes behind the words and give them back to me!Youens maintains that Mller, in depicting the wanderings of the alienated lover, produced poetry that was simple but not simple-minded, poetry that embraced simplicity as part of its meaning. In her view, Mller used the ruder folk forms to give his verse greater immediacy, to convey more powerfully the wanderer's complex inner state. Youens addresses many different aspects of Winterreise: the cultural milieu to which it belonged, the genesis of both the poetry and the music, Schubert's transformation of poetic cycle into music, the philosophical dimension of the work, and its musical structure.
PrefacePart I. The Poet and the Composer1. Genesis and Sources 2. The Texts of Winterreise 3. The Music of WinterreisePart II. The Songs1. Gute Nacht 2. Die Wetterfahne 3. Gefror'ne Tranen 4. Erstarrung 5. Der Lindenbaum 6. Wasserflut 7. Auf dem Flusse 8. Ruckblick 9. [Das] Irrlicht 10. Rast 11. Fruhlingstraum 12. Einsamkeit 13. Die Post 14. Der greise Kopf 15. Die Krahe 16. Letzte Hoffnung 17. Im Dorfe 18. Der sturmische Morgen 19. Tauschung 20. Der Wegweiser 21. Das Wirtshaus 22. Mut 23. Die Nebensonnen 24. Der LeiermannPostludeAppendix. Ludwig Uhland's Wander-LiederSelected Bibliography Index
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