This song cycle features pieces such as "The Weathervane," "Will o' the Wisp," and "The Linden Tree," which is often compared to the composer's other cycle Die Schöne Müllerin.
One section of this work contains no loud accents and features a calming motion produced by sixteenth notes played on the bass and eight notes played in the descant to evoke a man visiting a sleeping town. Another part of this work features a four measure repetition in which the singer asks, "But there on the window panes, who painted those leaves?" The singer comments that he saw three suns but "now the best two are gone" in one piece from this song cycle, whose fourteenth member draws it melody from the march section of the composer's earlier work Divertissement a la Hongroise. The piano plays a famous "hand organ" theme in the final section of this cycle depicting an old man playing the hurdy-gurdy, while in one of its best songs the piano illustrates the fluttering of leaves as the narrator hears a call saying "come hear, to me, friend / Here you will find your peace" echoing through the branches of a tree he once carved with signs of love. This song cycle features pieces such as "The Weathervane," "Will o' the Wisp," and "The Linden Tree," which is often compared to the composer's other cycle Die Schöne Müllerin. For 10 points, name this song cycle based on a poetry collection by Wilhelm Muller, composed by Franz Schubert.
One section of this work contains no loud accents and features a calming motion produced by sixteenth notes played on the bass and eight notes played in the descant to evoke a man visiting a sleeping town.
{Winterreise} [accept {Winter Journey}]