Schubert Muller and Die Schone Mullerin

The collaboration of Schubert and the poet Wilhelm Mller produced some of the best loved of nineteenth-century lieder--in particular Die schne Mllerin. Professor Youens shows how this archetypal tale of love and rejection is reflected in the poet''s own experience. She considers other poets'' explorations of the subject and looks at other musical settings of Mller''s mill poems. Above all she examines Mller''s permutation of the literary legends as an exploration of erotic obsession delusion frenzy disillusionment and death and the way in which Schubert altered Mller''s vision when the poetic cycle became a musical text.