Gesang der Geister über den Wassern D 714 [Op. post. 167] [full score] Elisabeth Pallas movement 2 through 5

movement 2 through 5

In addition he wrote a large number of sacred compositions for the Court of Dresden

The later repertoire in this volume includes a careful introduction of downward and upward extensions

made with the composer’s approval

as Matthew Arnold puts it “of human misery”

Gesang der Geister über den Wassern D 714 [Op. post. 167] [full score] Elisabeth Pallas movement 2 through 5This work is based on a poem by Goethe, written on his second trip to Switzerland. Inspired by the 300 meter high Staubbach Falls in Lauterbrunnen Valley, Goethe is here describing the human soul and its transience using the water image. Schubert repeatedly revised his musical setting, so, from an original piano lied arose a piece for male quartet initially a cappella, then with piano , and finally todays best known version for male octet, with low