What does Franz Schubert’s ‘Die Forelle’ translate to in English?
Die Forelle Die Forelle "" (German for "The Trout"), Op. 32, 550. is a lied, or song, composed in early 1817 for solo voice and piano with music by the Austrian composer Franz Schubert (1797–1828). Schubert chose to set the text of a poem by Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart, first published in the "" in 1783. The full poem tells the story of a trout being caught by a fisherman, but in its final stanza reveals its purpose as a moral piece warning young women to guard against young men. When Schubert set the poem to music, he removed the last verse,
Die Forelle later became known as the "Trout Quintet" (D. 667). Franz Liszt transcribed and paraphrased "" in two versions for solo piano. The first was in 1844 as the sixth part of his composition "Sechs Melodien von Franz Schubert" (S 560); the second transcription was in 1846 (S 564). Information regarding the contemporary reception to "" is scant. Reed relates that the song had "immediate popularity", and that Schubert composing the "Trout Quintet" was evidence that "" "was already widely known" by 1819. Newbould agrees, pointing out that the quintet was "acknowledging the song's meteoric rise up early nineteenth-century Vienna's equivalent