(2015) Schubert : Winterreise D 911 - Stephan Genz, Michel Dalberto nbr_cd:1 Although the composer played the

Although the composer played the violin in his youth (with great talent

traveling with him to England on the occasion of his marriage to Mary Tudor

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(2015) Schubert : Winterreise D 911 - Stephan Genz, Michel Dalberto nbr_cd:1 Although the composer played theI arrived a stranger, and I leave a stranger. These opening words of Schuberts Winterreise (Winter journey) succinctly sum up the cycle as a whole: it is the quintessential Romantic work about an itinerant outsider, unlucky in love, whose inevitable goal on his journey is always death. Schubert had already set Wilhelm Mllers poetic cycle Die schne Mllerin in 1823, and at some point he came across twelve new poems by Mller entitled Wanderlieder Die