Gretchen am Spinnrade, composed by Franz Schubert on 19 October 1814 when he was seventeen, set a text drawn from Goethe's Faust, Part One, and is generally credited as the work that founded the German lied as a serious art form.
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Source Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's Poems (OpenLearn, The Open University)
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Source Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's Poems (OpenLearn, The Open University)
Source Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's Poems (OpenLearn, The Open University)
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1. Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's Poems (OpenLearn, The Open University)
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Gretchen am Spinnrade, composed by Franz Schubert on 19 October 1814 when he was seventeen, set a text drawn from Goethe's Faust, Part One, and is generally credited as the work that founded the German lied as a serious art form.
- Created By: Franz Schubert
- In Form: Lied
- In Form: Music
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"Gretchen am Spinnrade" (Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel), Op. 2, D 118, is a Lied composed by Franz Schubert using the text from Part One, scene 15 of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust. With "Gretchen am Spinnrade" and some 600 o
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