Britten Thematic Catalogue

BTC857 SCHUBERT: GRETCHENS BITTE, D 564

For soprano and piano, completed by Benjamin Britten

Composition date: Nov-Dec 1938

Genre: Arrangement

Text: J.W. von Goethe (1749-1832)

From Faust, part I (set in German)

Duration: 7'

Commissioned:

Commissioned by the BBC for a programme of Schubert songs composed in 1817 and 1818.

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