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Sehnsucht
Song Title
Sehnsucht (
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Composer(s):
Franz Schubert
Author(s):
Johann Mayrhofer
Keyword(s) & Features:
Anguish
;
Battles
;
Beauty
;
Birds
;
Blossoms
;
Bright
;
Burning
;
Change
;
Changing Seasons
;
Clouds
;
Companions
;
Connection to Nature
;
Countries
;
Covering
;
Cranes
;
Craving
;
Criticizing
;
Deep
;
Desires
;
Dreams
;
Dry
;
Earth
;
Exhausted
;
Fleeing
;
Fruit
;
Futility
;
Gold
;
Ideals
;
Kindness
;
Larks
;
Leaving
;
Leaving Home
;
Limbs
;
Listening
;
Longing
;
Migrating
;
Nature
;
Observing
;
Pain
;
Red
;
Ringing
;
Sadness
;
Soil
;
Songs
;
Souls
;
Spring
;
Springing
;
Storms
;
Strangers
;
Strength
;
Striving
;
Sucking
;
Suffering
;
Tossing
;
Tough
;
Turning
;
Velvet
;
Winter
First Line
Der Lerche wolkennahe Lieder (
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Average Duration
3:15 (
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Year of composition
1816 (
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Link to English Text Online
http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=70435
Larger Work
Vier Lieder (
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Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups
Bildung Circle (
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Original Language
German (
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Score Source
https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/1/1d/IMSLP08983-SchubertD516_Sehnsucht.pdf
Link to IPA Source
https://www.ipasource.com/product/sehnsucht-die-scheibe-friert/
Catalog Designation
D. 516; Op. 8 no. 2 (
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Range:
F#4 - G5 (
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Original Key
C Major (
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Notes
Poet was a hypochondriac and committed sucide during a cholera epidemic (
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Contributor
AL (
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