In the summer of 1823 Schubert discovered anew volume of verse by Wilhelm Müller and wasimmediately inspired to set its sequence of poemsas his first song cycle. Die schöne Müllerin recountsthe unhappy tale of a young apprentice’s love for amiller’s daughter. The work charts the tragic courseof his rejection, despair and suicide.
With grateful thanks to the Voices at Wigmore Circle