Hello and welcome to this free preview of my Patreon exclusive series of mini episodes on

Schubert's song cycle de Shunnamutheran. This is episode one, which we'll talk about the

background of this song cycle and what we are going to explore going forward. If you're not

familiar with this song cycle, it's one of the great masterpieces of the 19th century, and each week I will talk about one of the songs.

From Dishuna Molleran, we'll talk about how to perform them, the text, and of course, the

remarkable music that Schubert wrote for this cycle. I really hope you join us over at

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and here is episode number one.

The Wander is the Muleau's Lus,

that wandern is the Muleau's Lus, Hello and welcome to this

Muella's

who never healed a wander

Hello and welcome to this new series of mini episodes, all about de Schoenemulleran,

Schubert's remarkable first song cycle and one of my all-time favorite pieces.

Each week we're going to explore one of the songs from the cycle, but today we're going

to set the stage and give ourselves a bit of background on where Schubert was in his life

when he wrote the cycle, the poetry, and where we are going to go with this series. We actually

don't know nearly as much about Schubert's life as we do about other composers. There are several

reasons for this, from Schubert's lack of public profile during his lifetime, his very private

nature, and his early demise at the age of just 31. Much of Schubert's work was unpublished during

his lifetime, and his reputation slowly grew,

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