Winterreise, D. 911
Winter Journey, D. 911 (Winterreise) is a song cycle for voice and piano by Franz Schubert. It is the second of Schubert's two grand song cycles based on Müller's poems, the first being Die schöne Müllerin, D. 795. Winterreise was written and published in two parts, both as Op. 89 in 1828, and, though the original version was written for tenor, it is customary to transpose the music to suite other voices, with the precedent being set by Schubert humself. Müller died before he could hear any music Schubert crafted from his poems. Both song cycles have exerted and enourmous influence on the genre, becoming fixed items in most singers' repertoires, and posing complex interpretative demands on both listeners and performers due to their grand scale and structural coherence.

Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer. Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies (including the famous "Unfinished Symphony"), liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music. Appreciation of his music during his lifetime was limited, but interest in Schubert's work increased dramatically in the decades following his death at the age of 31. Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms and Felix Mendelssohn, among others, discovered and championed his works in the 19th Century. Today, Schubert is admired as one of the leading exponents of the early Romantic era in music and he remains one of the most frequently performed composers.

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