Lieder Volume 6, Low Voice & Piano

Schubert Lieder Volume 6, Low Voice & Piano

Schubert lieder for discerning musicians.  The New Schubert Edition is the only scholarly-critical edition that will, once completed, include Franz Schubert's lieder in their entirety.  In response to the rising expectations of performers and listeners alike, all the lieder will be published over the next few years in performing editions containing the text of Walther Dürr, the eminent Schubert scholar and former Managing Editor of the New Schubert Edition.

Continuing the new Urtext edition of Schubert’s lieder, editor Walther Dürr now presents volume 6, for high, medium and low voice. While volumes 1 to 4 of this series contain mostly lieder that Schubert had published during his lifetime, volume 5ff. contain the remaining songs which are presented basically chronologically in the order of their Deutsch catalogue number.

The lieder in this sixth volume were composed during the period between autumn 1814 and spring 1815. With “Nachtgesang” (D 119) and “Trost in Tränen” (D120) Schubert turns to the “Strophenlied” in its stricter sense for the first time. He develops an interest in this form parallel to his first involvement with Goethe. Schubert, during this period an assistant teacher at his father’s school, orientated himself towards the so-called “Berliner Liederschule”, particularly the songs of Johann Friedrich Reichardt. By the beginning of the year 1815 he drew his inspiration mainly from the texts of Theodor Körner; however he regularly still produced settings for the poetry of Goethe and Schiller.

- Includes the definitive musical text from the New Schubert Edition

- Newly engraved with a spacious appearance and larger format (23 x 30 cm)

- Ideal page turns

- Editorial decisions and conflicting readings from main sources are now identified in this performing edition

- Alternative versions are reproduced in the appendix

- Introduction by Walther Dürr focuses on peculiarities in the genesis and performance history of each lied and provides solid information on performance practice

- Adopts straightforward ordering principle from the New Schubert Edition: first by opus number, then in chronological order

- Complete transposition into three vocal registers finally allows every singer to work with the latest findings of Schubert scholarship

- Includes English translations of the lieder texts by Richard Wigmore

The edition is scheduled to consists of 13 volumes. Each volume will appear in three editions; one for high voice, one for middle voice and one for low voice.