Classical Composer: | Schubert, Franz |
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Lyricist: | Schiller, Friedrich von |
Work: | Punschlied: im Norden zu singen, D. 253 |
Year Composed: | 1815 |
Duration: | 00:01:00 |
Work Category: | Vocal |
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Punschlied (Drinking Song) is certainly musically a simple song. Schubert has treated the poem from 1803, in Schiller's later creative period, with its twelve verses, as a plain strophic song. The regular structure contributes to the folk-song character of the setting, with each of the four-line verses set in two bars. Schiller's poem, rather than being merely a social genre piece on the joys of drinking, is a song in praise of the strength of the human spirit, since the North, with its climate, does not allow the production of wine, but hot punch has been invented. As Schiller's final verse says:
Drum ein Sinnbild und ein Zeichen
Sei uns dieser Feuersaft,
Was der Mensch sich kann erlangen
Mit dem Willen und der Kraft.
(Then a symbol and a sign
Let this fiery drink be for us,
What man can achieve
With will and strength.)
Writer: Wolfgang Gersthofer
Translated by: Keith Anderson
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