"Die Forelle" (German for "The Trout"), Op. 32, D 550. is a lied, or song, composed in early 1817 for solo voice and piano with music by Austrian composer Franz Schubert (1797–1828). Schubert chose to set the text of a poem by Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart, first published in the Schwäbischer Musenalmanach in 1783. The full poem tells the story of a trout being caught by a fisherman, but in its final stanza reveals its purpose as a moral piece warning young women to guard against young men. When Schubert set the poem to music, he removed the last verse, which contained the moral, changing the song's focus and enabling it to be sung by male or female singers. Schubert produced six subsequent copies of the work, all with minor variations.
Original Name | Die Forelle |
Librettist | Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart |
Date of composition | 1817 |
First published | 1820 |
Type | Lied |
Tonality | D-flat Major |
Catalogue | D 550 |
Approx. duration | 2 minutes |
Instruments |
Voice
Piano |
Arrangements |
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Franz Liszt: Die Forelle (Lied von Franz Schubert), S. 564
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Autotranslations beta |
Franz Schubert: The Trout en ré bémol majeur, D 550 Franz Schubert: The Trout in re bemolle maggiore, D 550 Franz Schubert: The Trout Des-dur, D 550 |