Franz Schubert
Gretchen am Spinnrade
Franz Schubert
Gretchen am Spinnrade
- Instrumentation Women's Choir (3-Part) and Piano
- Composer Franz Schubert
- Series Creating Artistry
- Lyricist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Edition Choral Score
- Publisher Hal Leonard
- Order no. 00140699
Description:
In this, one of Schubert's first and most successful artsongs, Gretchen reflects on her sudden infatuation with Faust. The piano accompaniment, with its relentless sixteenth notes in the right hand, depicts both Gretchen's accumulating madness and the perpetual motion of the spinning wheel.