One song by this composer is based on The Lady of the Lake, and its original German text is often replaced with a Latin one.
One song by this composer is based on The Lady of the Lake, and its original German text is often replaced with a Latin one. Besides "Ellen's Third Song," this composer also wrote a work whose narrator obsesses over the color green and throws himself in a brook, and a song whose vocal line climaxes on lyrics about kissing while the piano mimics the title object. The former is Die schone Mullerin. In one of his works, the performer sings in different ranges and modes to play all four characters: the narrator, the father, the child, and the supernatural title character. Known for lieder such as "Gretchen am Spinnrade" and "Der Erlkonig," this is, for 10 points, what composer of "Death and the Maiden"?
One song by this composer is based on The Lady of the Lake, and its original German text is often replaced with a Latin one.
Franz Schubert