Schubert's song cycles

Franz Schubert's best known song cycles, like Die schöne Müllerin and Winterreise are based on separate poems with a common theme and narrative. Other song cycles are based on consecutive excerpts of the same literary work: Schubert's "Ave Maria" is part of such a song cycle based on excerpts of the same poem, in this case by Walter Scott.

When the poems of a group of songs have a common link, and are for this reason grouped under a single Deutsch number, but there is no common narrative, the collection is rather qualified as a song set than a song cycle. Some of Schubert's song cycles contain both Lieder for solo voice as part songs. There is, however, always a piano accompaniment.

D 93, Song cycle Don Gayseros for voice and piano (1815?):

Gesänge des Harfners aus "Wilhelm Meister" (Harpist's songs from Wilhelm Meister), D 478 is a song cycle for voice and piano, first published in 1822 as Op. 12. The texts of the cycle derived from Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship.

Alternative settings and versions of the "Harfenspieler" texts:

D 688, Song cycle Vier Canzonen for voice and piano (1820):

Op. 25 – D 795, Song cycle Die schöne Müllerin for voice and piano (1823):

D 795, alternative versions:

Op. 52, Sieben Gesänge aus Walter Scotts "Fräulein am See" (Seven songs from Walter Scott's Lady of the Lake):

Op. posth. 124 – D 857, Two songs Zwei Szenen aus dem Schauspiel "Lacrimas" for voice and piano (1825):

Op. 95 – D 866, Song cycle Vier Refrainlieder for voice and piano (1828?):

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