Pieces › Franz Schubert

Gretchen am Spinnrade, D.118

Song

Franz Schubert · D minor · 120 bars · 82 chords analysed

Schubert wrote more than 600 songs in a short life, turning the German Lied into a major art form. A song (in German, a Lied) sets a poem for voice and piano. The piano is a full partner: it paints the scene, the weather and the singer's mood. This score comes from the OpenScore Lieder Corpus, a free collection of 19th-century songs that includes many women composers.

Keys visited: D minor, C major, A minor, F major, B♭ major, E minor.