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Franz Schubert's best known song cycles, like Die schöne Müllerin and Winterreise are based on separate poems with a common theme and narrative. Other song cycles are based on consecutive excerpts of the same literary work: Schubert's "Ave Maria" is part of such a song cycle based on excerpts of the same poem, in this case by Walter Scott.

When the poems of a group of songs have a common link, and are for this reason grouped under a single Deutsch number, but there is no common narrative, the collection is rather qualified as a song set than a song cycle. Some of Schubert's song cycles contain both Lieder for solo voice as well as part songs. There is, however, always a piano accompaniment.

Don Gayseros

D 93, Song cycle Don Gayseros for voice and piano (1815?):

1. "Don Gayseros I"

2. "Don Gayseros II" (fragment?)

3. "Don Gayseros III" (fragment?)

Gesänge des Harfners aus "Wilhelm Meister"

Gesänge des Harfners aus "Wilhelm Meister" (The Songs of the Harpist from Wilhelm Meister), D 478 is a song cycle for voice and piano, first published in 1822 as Op. 12. The texts of the cycle derived from Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship.

1. "Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergibt" ("Harfenspieler I" 2nd setting; 2nd version – 1822?)
2. "Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen aß", formerly D 480 ("Harfenspieler III" 3rd setting – 1822)
3. "An die Türen will ich schleichen", formerly D 479 ("Harfenspieler II" 2nd version – 1822?)

Alternative settings and versions of the "Harfenspieler" texts:

• "Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergibt":
  • D 325 "Harfenspieler" (1815, first setting)
  • D 478 "Harfenspieler I" (1816, 1st version of 2nd setting; modified 2nd version)
• "An die Türen will ich schleichen":
  • D 478 (formerly D 479) "Harfenspieler II" (1816, 1st version; modified 2nd version)
• "Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen aß":
  • D 478 (formerly D 480) "Harfenspieler III" (1816, 1st and 2nd settings; modified version of the 3rd setting)

Vier Canzonen

D 688, Song cycle Vier Canzonen for voice and piano (1820):

1. "Non t'accostar all'urna"

2. "Guarda, che bianca luna"

3. "Da quel sembiante appresi"

4. "Mio ben, ricordati"

Die schöne Müllerin

Op. 25 – D 795, Song cycle Die schöne Müllerin for voice and piano (1823):

1. "Das Wandern"

2. "Wohin?"

3. "Halt!"

4. "Danksagung an den Bach"

5. "Am Feierabend"

6. "Der Neugierige"

7. "Ungeduld"

8. "Morgengruß"

9. "Des Müllers Blumen"

10. "Tränenregen"

11. "Mein!"

12. "Pause"

13. "Mit dem grünen Lautenbande"

14. "Der Jäger"

15. "Eifersucht und Stolz"

16. "Die liebe Farbe"

17. "Die böse Farbe"

18. "Trockne Blumen"

19. "Der Müller und der Bach"

20. "Des Baches Wiegenlied"

D 795, alternative versions:

11. "Mein!" (modified version)

13. "Mit dem grünen Lautenbande" (modified version)

18. "Trockne Blumen" (modified version)

19. "Der Müller und der Bach" (modified version)

Seven songs from Walter Scott's Lady of the Lake

Op. 52, Sieben Gesänge aus Walter Scotts "Fräulein am See" (Seven songs from Walter Scott's Lady of the Lake):

1. D 837, Song "Ellens Gesang I" for voice and piano (1825)

2. D 838, Song "Ellens Gesang II" for voice and piano (1825)

3. D 835, Quartet "Bootgesang" for two tenors, two basses and piano (1825)

4. D 836, Chorus "Coronach (Totengesang der Frauen und Mädchen)" for women’s choir and piano, Totengesang der Frauen und Mädchen (1825)

5. D 846, Song "Normans Gesang" for voice and piano (1825)

6. D 839, Song "Ellens Gesang III (Hymne an die Jungfrau)" for voice and piano, Ave Maria or Hymne an die Jungfrau (1825)

7. D 843, Song "Lied des gefangenen Jägers" for voice and piano (1825)

Two scenes from the play "Lacrimas"

Op. posth. 124 – D 857, Two songs Zwei Szenen aus dem Schauspiel "Lacrimas" for voice and piano (1825):

1. "Lied der Delphine"

2. "Lied des Florio"

Vier Refrainlieder

Op. 95 – D 866, Song cycle Vier Refrainlieder for voice and piano (1828?):

1. "Die Unterscheidung"

2. "Bei dir allein"

3. "Die Männer sind méchant"

4. "Irdisches Glück"

Songs from Wilhelm Meister

Op. 62 – D 877, Song cycle Gesänge aus "Wilhelm Meister" (1826):

1. "Mignon und der Harfner" for two voices and piano (5th setting)

2. "Lied der Mignon" for voice and piano (2nd setting)

3. "Lied der Mignon" for voice and piano (3rd setting)

4. "Lied der Mignon" for voice and piano (6th setting)

D 877, alternative versions:

2. "Lied der Mignon" for voice and piano (2nd setting, modified version)

Three songs

Op. 83 – D 902, "Drei Gesänge" for bass and piano (1827):

1. "L'incanto degli occhi; Die Macht der Augen" (2nd setting)

2. "Il traditor deluso; Der getäuschte Verräter"

3. "Il modo di prender moglie; Die Art ein Weib zu nehmen"

Winterreise

Op. 89 – D 911, Song cycle Winterreise for voice and piano (1827):

1. "Gute Nacht"

2. "Die Wetterfahne"

3. "Gefror’ne Tränen"

4. "Erstarrung"

5. "Der Lindenbaum"

6. "Wasserflut"

7. "Auf dem Flusse" (2nd version)

8. "Rückblick"

9. "Irrlicht"

10. "Rast" (2nd version)

11. "Frühlingstraum" (2nd version)

12. "Einsamkeit"

13. "Die Post"

14. "Der greise Kopf"

15. "Die Krähe"

16. "Letzte Hoffnung"

17. "Im Dorfe"

18. "Der stürmische Morgen"

19. "Täuschung"

20. "Der Wegweiser"

21. "Das Wirtshaus"

22. "Mut" (2nd version)

23. "Die Nebensonnen" (2nd version)

24. "Der Leiermann"

D 911, alternative versions:

7. "Auf dem Flusse" (1st version)

10. "Rast" (1st version)

11. "Frühlingstraum" (1st version)

22. "Mut" (1st version)

23. "Die Nebensonnen" (1st version)

Schwanengesang

D 957, Not a song cycle, but a collection compiled by the publisher. 13 Lieder nach Gedichten von Rellstab und Heine for voice and piano (1828, published as Schwanengesang, with "Die Taubenpost" as 14th song added to the cycle). The first seven songs of the cycle are on poems by Ludwig Rellstab, the next six on poems by Heinrich Heine. D 965a "Die Taubenpost" on a poem by Johann Gabriel Seidl, presumably the last song Schubert composed, was added to the cycle by the publisher.

1. "Liebesbotschaft"

2. "Kriegers Ahnung"

3. "Frühlingssehnsucht"

4. "Ständchen" , Serenade (original and modified versions)

5. "Aufenthalt"

6. "In der Ferne"

7. "Abschied"

8. "Der Atlas"

9. "Ihr Bild"

10. "Das Fischermädchen"

11. "Die Stadt"

12. "Am Meer"

13. "Der Doppelgänger"

14. "Die Taubenpost"

Auf den wilden Wegen

Auf den wilden Wegen: songs from the Poetisches Tagebuch of Ernst Schulze is musician Graham Johnson's proposal to group Schubert's ten settings of poems from Ernst Schulze's Poetisches Tagebuch in a single song cycle:

1. D 853 – "Auf der Bruck" ("Auf der Brücke")
2. D 862 – "Um Mitternacht"
3. D 874 – "O Quell, was strömst du rasch und wild" (completed by Reinhard van Hoorickx)
4. D 861 – "Der liebliche Stern"
5. D 876 – "Im Jänner 1817 (Tiefes Leid)"
6. D 834 – "Im Walde"
7. D 882 – "Im Frühling"
8. D 883 – "Lebensmut"
9. D 884 – "Über Wildemann"
10. D 860 – "An mein Herz"

References

1. Deutsch No. 93 (p. 69 in the 1978 edition)
2. AGA Series XX, Volume 1: Nos. 13–15
3. New Schubert Edition Series IV, Volume 7: Anh. No. 1
4. Deutsch No. 478
5. Dürr, Walther. Series IV: Lieder, Volume I (Part a; Part b Nos. 9–10; Anh. Nos. 6–7) of the New Schubert Edition. Bärenreiter, 1970.
6. Deutsch No. 688
7. Deutsch No. 795
8. Deutsch Nos. 835–839, 843 and 846
9. Deutsch No. 857
10. Deutsch No. 866
11. Deutsch No. 877
12. Deutsch No. 902
13. Deutsch No. 911
14. Deutsch No. 957 and No. 965a
15. Schubert Complete Lieder, Vol.18 at www.gramophone.co.uk
16. Complete songs. 18 at University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries

Sources

• AGA: Franz Schubert's Works (various editors and editions)
• Otto Erich Deutsch (and others) Schubert Thematic Catalogue (various editions)
• NSE: Neue Schubert-Ausgabe (various editors and publication dates)
• Eva Badura-Skoda and Peter Branscombe. Schubert Studies: Problems of Style and Chronology. Cambridge University Press, 1982. Reprint 2008. ISBN 0521088720 ISBN 9780521088725 ISBN 9780521226066
• Brian Newbould. Schubert: The Music and the Man. University of California Press, 1999. ISBN 0520219570 ISBN 9780520219571
• Reinhard Van Hoorickx. "Franz Schubert (1797–1828) List of the Dances in Chronological Order" in Revue belge de Musicologie/Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Muziekwetenschap, Vol. 25, No. 1/4, pp. 68–97, 1971
• Reinhard Van Hoorickx. "Thematic Catalogue of Schubert's Works: New Additions, Corrections and Notes" in Revue belge de Musicologie/Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Muziekwetenschap, Vol. 28/30, pp. 136–171, 1974—1976.

External links

• (in German) Franz Schubert, Thematisches Verzeichnis seiner Werke in chronologischer Folge on-line copy of the 1978 version of the Deutsch catalogue at archive.org
• (in German) Franz Schubert 31.1.1797 – 19.11.1828 at home.arcor.de/kbhartmann
• (in French) Franz Schubert: Catalogue des oeuvres at musiqueorguequebec.ca
• (in Italian) Franz SCHUBERT: Catalogo delle composizioni at flaminioonline.it
• 555 on-line autographs of compositions by Schubert, ordered by D. number at schubert-online.at by Austrian Academy of Sciences (OAW)
• List of works by Franz Schubert: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
• Free scores by Franz Schubert at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
• Franz Schubert (1797–1828): New Edition of the Complete Works at www.baerenreiter.com
• The New Schubert Edition at schubert-ausgabe.de
• SCHUBERT FIRST PUBLIC PERFORMANCES: A TIMELINE at schubertusa.weebly.com
• Franz Schubert (1797–1828) – The Complete Songs at www.hyperion-records.co.uk
• Composer: Franz Peter Schubert (1797–1828) at The LiederNet Archive

• Song cycles by Franz Schubert