Gretchen am Spinnrade (Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel), Op. 2, 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 other songs for voice and piano, Schubert was a significant contributor to the genre of the Lied. Gretchen am Spinnrade was originally composed for the soprano voice, but it has also been transposed to accommodate mezzo-sopranos and other vocal types. Schubert completed Gretchen am Spinnrade in October 1814, three months before his eighteenth birthday.
| Original Name | Gretchen am Spinnrade |
| Librettist | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Date of composition | 1814 |
| First published | 1821 |
| Type | Lied |
| Tonality | D Minor |
| Catalogue | D 118 |
| Approx. duration | 3 minutes |
| Instruments |
Voice
Piano |
| Arrangements |
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Franz Liszt: Gretchen am Spinnrade, S. 375/2
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| Autotranslations beta |
Franz Schubert: Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel en ré mineur, D 118 Franz Schubert: Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel in re minore, D 118 Franz Schubert: Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel d-moll, D 118 |