ExclusiveSchubert: Schwanengesang, D.957 - 8. Der Atlas

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Franz Schubert: Schwanengesang, D.957 - 8. Der Atlas. This beautiful piece was performed by Justin T. Plank - Margaret McDonald. It has creative common licence (Public Domain Mark 1.0 Universal) and is provided through musopen.org.

Franz Peter Schubert was an late Classical and early Romantic composer. He produced a vast oeuvre during his short life, composing more the 600 vocal works (largely Lieder), and well as several symphonies, operas, and a large body of piano music. He was uncommonly gifted from a young age, but appreciation of his music was limited during his lifetime. His work became more popular in the decades after his death, and was praised by 19th century composers, including Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, and Liszt.

Lyrics: I am miserable Atlas! a world,
I have to bear the whole world of pain,
I bear the unbearable, and my heart wants to break –
My heart wants to break in my body.

You proud heart! actually it is what you wanted,
You wanted to be happy, endlessly happy
Or endlessly suffering, proud heart,
And now you are suffering.
Poem by Heinrich Heine, translated into English by Malcolm Wren

The video was filmed by Christian Schlegel in Simmental, Switzerland and edited by Wenjing Ma.


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