Schubert’s Gretchen am Spinnrade: Latest Results of a Manuscript Study

Abstract For whom has this musical notation not been an old friend since childhood! On closer examination, however, we find significant differences when compared with the familiar reading, and can only wonder that it has taken us any time at all to notice them. The new reading is taken from Schubert’s autograph manuscript. Previously owned by Nikolaus Dumba, and now the property of the Vienna City Council, it has been published for the first time by the noted Schubert scholar O. E. Deutsch in volume 4 of Musikalische Seltenheiten (Vienna: Universal Edition).