Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems

Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

  • understand Schubert's place as a composer in early nineteenth-century Vienna
  • understand the place of Schubert in the history of German song and the development of Romanticism
  • follow the words of songs by Schubert while listening to a recording, using parallel German and English texts
  • comment on the relationship between words and music in Schubert's song settings.