New York: E. Kalmus , No. Editor Max Friedlaender Plate , , The Peters edition for very low voice prints this song in the same key as the low voice edition. Editor Max Reger Vienna: Universal Edition , Plate Language French. Album Musica, No. Arranger Franz Liszt , orchestrator. Vier lieder von Franz Schubert, No.
This file is part of the Sibley Mirroring Project. The piece starts in low gear veering between stretches of D minor, drained of expression and a shift to an unexpected C major which gives an archaic modal twist to the harmony. Schubert does not shy away from the wail of hysteria inherent in this line; the voice is challenged to sit around E, F and G—the soprano's perilous passaggio—to marvellous effect.
Schubert now inserts a reprise of the opening verse; the poem does not need this repeat to establish a sense of obsession, but the music does, and each time we hear the refrain it seems subtly different. The thought of how handsome and good Faust is, applies the balm of the relative major F. This section Verses 5 and 6 is a miniature Frauenliebe und -leben ; it starts as idealistically and demurely as that cycle, and as in Er, der herrlichste von allen , progresses to a description of the beloved's best points.
Schumann's heroine is eventually happily married, but the stories of the two women dramatically diverge as fleeting key shifts trace Gretchen's whirlwind courtship.
The slippery slope of the chromatic scale for 'Zauberfluss' is a marvellous touch, suggesting, as it somehow does, a flood of artfully insincere words. And then the clasp of his hand, and then his kiss—a searing memory thrown into the void created by Faust's cruel absence.
And then silence. Governed by mechanical habit, for the wheel is her work and drudgery, Gretchen sets it turning once more. Where to go from here? Another repeat of the refrain, and a lesser composer would have been in a spin as to what to do next.
Goethe meant something at least as strong as this—his original lines here were 'my womb longs for him. It is this that was unheard of in song, altogether more revolutionary than the invention of a wheel. Is this desire, hysteria, anger, fear or a mixture of them all?
With almost each bar the harmony changes, rising and panting, the senses spinning and whirling. The storm culminates in two top A's, and suddenly all passion is spent and we hear once more the quiet desperation of 'Meine Ruh' ist hin'. Franz Schubert.
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