Der Zwerg (Schubert)

Der Zwerg (The Dwarf) is a lied (or ballad) for voice and piano by Franz Schubert, written in the mid-1820s on a text by Matthäus von Collin. The poem is in terza rima. In Otto Erich Deutsch's catalogue of Schubert's works, it is Op. 22, No. 1, D. 771.

This article is about the Schubert song. For the opera by Zemlinky, see der Zwerg.

The singer sings in three different voices: the Dwarf, his mistress the Queen (whom the Dwarf strangles with a red silk scarf in the song), and the narrator.

Recordings are available by several notable singers, including George London, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Lula Mysz-Gmeiner, Thomas Quasthoff, Jessye Norman, Ian Bostridge, and Matthias Goerne.

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