Evening of Songs with Sönke Tams Freier, Bass-Baritone, and Henriette Zahn, Piano
“Die schöne Müllerin” is a song cycle by Franz Schubert based on poems by Wilhelm Müller.
In Schubert’s
“Die schöne Müllerin,” water—especially in the form of the brook—plays a central role. It accompanies the miller’s journeyman on his travels, symbolizes movement, love, and longing, and becomes an emotional mirror of his inner world. The brook is both confidant and comforter.
