Lieder (Schubert)
Movements
Geheimes (D 719) Heiß mich nicht reden, heiß mich schweigen (D 726) Suleika I (D 720)
Notes
It was in the genre of the lied that Schubert made his most indelible mark. Leon Plantinga remarks that “in his more than six hundred Lieder he explored and expanded the potentialities of the genre, as no composer before him.” Prior to Schubert’s influence, Lieder tended toward a strophic, syllabic treatment of text, evoking the folksong qualities engendered by the stirrings of Romantic nationalism.
