"I hope I die before I get old!"How many romantic poets and musicians have hurled that threat at immortality? From Wordsworth through Townsend, the challenge to live fast, die young, and leave a beautiful corpus of works has inspired many an act of artistic creation. Wilhelm Müller's Die Schöne Müllerin poetry cycle -- with its naïve narrator, its tragic romance, and its final love-death -- inspired Schubert to create his first song cycle after his first near-death experience with syphilis. Both the poetry and the music of ...
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"I hope I die before I get old!"How many romantic poets and musicians have hurled that threat at immortality? From Wordsworth through Townsend, the challenge to live fast, die young, and leave a beautiful corpus of works has inspired many an act of artistic creation. Wilhelm Müller's Die Schöne Müllerin poetry cycle -- with its naïve narrator, its tragic romance, and its final love-death -- inspired Schubert to create his first song cycle after his first near-death experience with syphilis. Both the poetry and the music of the cycle are quintessentially youthful, and, to some over 30, the sentimental story could seem hopelessly mawkish and the strophic settings could seem fatally tedious. And yet, despite the inevitable generation gap, singers over 30 continue to insist on performing Die Schöne Müllerin -- including 65-year-old Dutch baritone Max van Egmond in this 2001 recording.And a good thing it is, too. Egmond clearly knows the music backwards, forwards, inside out, and sideways, and despite the...
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