Works

Gretchen am Spinnrade

Citation Formats

General Reference

Arts and Music Atlas. "Gretchen am Spinnrade." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://arts.interactiveatlas.org/works/gretchen-am-spinnrade.

APA Style

Arts and Music Atlas. (n.d.). Gretchen am Spinnrade. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://arts.interactiveatlas.org/works/gretchen-am-spinnrade

BibTeX

@misc{artsandmusicatlas-gretchen-am-spinnrade,
  author = {Arts and Music Atlas},
  title = {Gretchen am Spinnrade},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://arts.interactiveatlas.org/works/gretchen-am-spinnrade},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

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.

Facts

Year Created

1814 1

Medium

Lied for voice and piano 1

Cross-Tradition Connections