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Schubert's Winterreise A Winter Journey in Poetry, Image, and Song Franz Schubert and Wilhelm Müller FOREWORD BY JOHN HARBISON; ESSAY BY SUSAN YOUENS; PHOTOGRAPHS BY KATRIN TALBOT; POEMS TRANSLATED BY LOUISE MCCLELLAND URBAN An extraordinary fusion of music, poetry, and photographs Winterreise is perhaps the greatest song cycle ever written. Franz Schubert set to music the evocative poetry of his contemporary, German lyricist Wilhelm Müller. It is a heart-rending portrayal of a winter journey full of misery and woe. "It took courage beyond reckoning for Schubert to set Wilheim Müller's poetry to music, because he saw in it his own possible fate, one of unimaginable bleakness. A great work assumes even greater power when one realizes what it must have meant to its creator." —Susan Yoouens, from the introductory essay. This striking and unique multimedia volume brings together the achievements of Schubert and Müller with new interpretations by present-day musicians, scholars, and a photographer. The volume includes: the complete German text of Wilhelm Müller's twenty-four poems a new English translation of the poems by Louise McClelland Urban a foreword by Pulitzer Prize–winning American composer John Harbison an introductory essay by renowned Schubert scholar Susan Youens one hundred and sixteen stunning black and white photographs of a winter's journey by Katrin Talbot a compact-disc recording of the Winterreise song cycle performed by baritone Paul Rowe and pianist Martha Fischer. John Harbison is institute professor of music at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Katrin Talbot is an award-winning photographer and violist who lives in Madison, Wisconsin. Susan Youens is professor of musicology at the University of Notre Dame. Louise McClelland Urban is professor emerita of voice at the University of Maryland, College Park. Paul Rowe, baritone, and Martha Fischer, pianist, are professors of music at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Media & bookseller inquiries regarding review copies, events, and interviews can be directed to the publicity department at publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu or (608) 263-0734. (If you want to examine a book for possible course use, please see our Course Books page. If you want to examine a book for possible rights licensing, please see Rights & Permissions.)

April 2003 LC: 2002156545 ML 256 pp.  10 x 10 118 b/w photos, includes music CD of the Winterreise song cycle Hardcover $45.00 ISBN 978-0-299-18600-5 ADD TO CART

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