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Sehnsucht In The Heine Lieder Of Schubert’S Schwanengesang, Kathleen P. Brandau
Sehnsucht In The Heine Lieder Of Schubert’S Schwanengesang, Kathleen P. Brandau
Honors Theses
This thesis considers the theme of Sehnsucht in the context of German Romantic music, in particular, the Heine Lieder from Franz Schubert’s Schwanengesang. Of particular interest is the ordering of the Heine Lieder and the narrative that emerges when the songs are reordered to conform to the arrangement in Heinrich Heine’s poetic collection, Buch der Lieder. The final chapter identifies instances of Sehnsucht in the text and suggests a hidden poetic cycle that sheds light on some unusual musical connections between the poetry and Schubert’s settings of individual songs.