Der Zwerg (Schubert)

Der Zwerg (The Dwarf) is a lied (or ballad) for voice and piano by Franz Schubert, written in the mid-1820s on a text by Matthäus von Collin. The poem is in terza rima. In Otto Erich Deutsch's catalogue of Schubert's works, it is Op. 22, No. 1, D. 771. The singer sings in three different voices: the Dwarf, his mistress the Queen (whom the Dwarf strangles with a red silk scarf in the song), and the narrator.

Der Zwerg (Schubert)

Der Zwerg (The Dwarf) is a lied (or ballad) for voice and piano by Franz Schubert, written in the mid-1820s on a text by Matthäus von Collin. The poem is in terza rima. In Otto Erich Deutsch's catalogue of Schubert's works, it is Op. 22, No. 1, D. 771. The singer sings in three different voices: the Dwarf, his mistress the Queen (whom the Dwarf strangles with a red silk scarf in the song), and the narrator.