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Gretchen am Spinnrade

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Gretchen am Spinnrade

Franz Schubert's setting of Gretchen's song in Goethe's Faust, Part I, composed in 1814 at the age of 17 and published as Op. 2 in 1821.



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An die Musik is prosaic; Ganymed lacks rapture; Gretchen am Spinnrade sounds mildly upset rather than distraught; and so it goes on.
Yet her finest moment came as Goethe's other heroine, in the quiet desperation of Gretchen am Spinnrade, her voice growing out of Drake's restless but delicate piano lines.
 
 
 
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