Fahrt zum Hades
| Song Title | Fahrt zum Hades (Search) |
| Composer(s): | Franz Schubert |
| Author(s): | Johann Mayrhofer |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Afterlife; Age; Anticipation; Asking; Beauty; Creaking; Crying; Curses; Cypresses; Danaids; Death; Distance; Dories; Dying; Earth; Eerie; Ending; Eyes; Finishing; Forgetting; Friends; Gloom; Hades; Heavy; Hell; Journeys; Land; Losing; Murmuring; Oblivion; Pain; Removing; Repeating; Rivers; Shining; Shores; Songs; Spirits; Stars; Stillness; Strength; Struggling; Sun; Tantalus; Tears; Torture; Whispering; Winning |
| First Line | Der Nachen dröhnt (Search) |
| Average Duration | 5:00 (Search) |
| Year of composition | 1817 (Search) |
| Link to English Text Online | http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=51588 |
| Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups | Bildung Circle (Search) |
| Original Language | German (Search) |
| Score Source | https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/d/d9/IMSLP16205-SchubertD526_Fahrt_zum_Hades.pdf |
| Link to IPA Source | https://www.ipasource.com/product/fahrt-zum-hades-2/ |
| Catalog Designation | D. 526 (Search) |
| Voice part suggested by composer | Baritone or Bass |
| Range: | G3 - D5 (Search) |
| Original Key | D minor (Search) |
| Notes | Poet was a hypochondriac and committed sucide during a cholera epidemic (Search) |
| Contributor | AL (Search) |