Franz Schubert - Gesang der Geister über den Wassern, D 714

🎶 LIKE and SUBSCRIBE for more score videos! → 🎶 SUBSCRIBE to my PATREON! → 🎶 PAYPAL for free donations! → Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Gesang der Geister über den Wassern, D 714 (1820-1-21) One of the weirdest of Schubert’s works, this piece is a Goethe’s poem sang by an 8-part male choir with an accompaniment of two violas, two cellos and one contrabass. Translation from: “Song of the spirits over the waters“ The soul of man Is like the water: It comes from heaven, It returns to heaven, And down again To earth must go, Ever changing. When from the high, Sheer wall of rock The pure stream gushes, It sprays its lovely vapor In billowing clouds Towards the smooth rock, And lightly received, It goes enshrouded, Softly hissing Down to the deep. Cliffs tower, Opposing its fall. Annoyed, it foams Step by step Into the abyss. In a flat bed