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Franz Schubert

Der Zwerg (Schubert)

Der Zwerg (The Dwarf) is a lied (or ballad) for voice and piano by Franz Schubert, written in the mid-1820s on a text by Matthäus von Collin. The poem is in terza rima. In Otto Erich Deutsch's

  • Of Dwarves, Perversion, and Patriotism: Schubert’s “Der Zwerg,” D. 771, by Susan Youens 19th-Century Music © 1997 University of California Press.
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVGP97dFLXI George London sings “Der Zwerg” (YouTube)
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Franz Schubert