for high voice on texts by Wilhelm Mueller

Eight Lieder for high voice on texts by Wilhelm Mueller
Editor: Suzanne Summerville
Instrumentation: high voice and piano
Edition: score
Difficulty: medium to advanced
Item no.: fue 6450
ISMN: 979-0-50012-645-4

First publication (Suzanne Summerville)
During the year 1823, Hensel’s single most pro-ductive year for song writing, she composed a total of eight, or perhaps nine, of Wilhelm Mller’s poems, beginning on the 10th of January with settings from Die schne Mllerin (Im Winter zu lesen). Her three Die schne Mllerin Lieder were written several months before Franz Schubert’s famous cycle. Fanny Hensel met Wilhelm Mller personally during July 1823 when he visited Berlin.
Fanny Hensel was only 18 when she wrote her Wilhelm Mller settings. At first glance, these early songs seem simple, strophic, and not particularly vo-cally challenging. A closer examination of the compo-sitions, however, leads to the discovery of more so-phistication than may be assumed at first glance.

Inhalt (Contents)
Die schne Mllerin
Des Mllers Blumen (The Miller’s Flowers) 1
Der Neugierige (The Curious One) 3
Die liebe Farbe (The Beloved Colour) 5
Johannes und Esther
Gebet in der Christnacht (A Prayer on Christmas Eve) 7
Vereinigung (Union) 9
Reiselieder eines rheinischen Handwerkburschen
Einsamkeit (Solitude) 11
Abendreihn (Evening Song) 15
Seefahrers Abschied (A Sailor’s Farewell) 19