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- The Cambridge Companion to Schubert’s Winterreise
- Cambridge Companions to Music
- The Cambridge Companion to Schubert’s Winterreise
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Music Examples
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Pitch
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: An Endless Winter Journey
- Part I Schubert’s Winterreise and Its Musical Heritage
- Part II Die Winterreise: Poetic Cycle
- Part III Cultural and Historical Contexts
- 6 Two Perspectives on Psychology in Winterreise
- 7 Nature and Science in Winterreise
- 8 On the Move: Outcasts, Wanderers, and the Political Landscape of Die Winterreise
- Part IV Winterreise: Song Cycle
- Part V Winterreise After 1827
- Appendix
- Guide to Further Reading
- Index
7 - Nature and Science in Winterreise
from Part III - Cultural and Historical Contexts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 February 2021
- The Cambridge Companion to Schubert’s Winterreise
- Cambridge Companions to Music
- The Cambridge Companion to Schubert’s Winterreise
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Music Examples
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Pitch
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: An Endless Winter Journey
- Part I Schubert’s Winterreise and Its Musical Heritage
- Part II Die Winterreise: Poetic Cycle
- Part III Cultural and Historical Contexts
- 6 Two Perspectives on Psychology in Winterreise
- 7 Nature and Science in Winterreise
- 8 On the Move: Outcasts, Wanderers, and the Political Landscape of Die Winterreise
- Part IV Winterreise: Song Cycle
- Part V Winterreise After 1827
- Appendix
- Guide to Further Reading
- Index
Summary
A solitary wanderer journeys through a strange, desolate landscape, bracing himself against the harsh weather. He repeatedly interrupts his travels to observe and reflect upon the natural world around him: striking landscapes, flora and fauna, and mysterious, seemingly magical atmospheric phenomena. This wanderer, of course, is the unnamed speaker in Wilhelm Müller and Franz Schubert’s Winterreise – but his fictional travels mirror in interesting ways the real-life adventures of some early nineteenth-century scientific explorers and naturalists.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Schubert's ‘Winterreise' , pp. 114 - 128Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021