In this collection, the singer compares carrying the weight of his sorrow to Atlas' punishment in a G-minor song. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this posthumously published 1828 collection of 14 songs. This collection includes a B minor song with an ambiguous harmonic progression in which the singer stares at where his love once lived, only to realize he now lives there.
ANSWER: Schwanengesang (”SHVAHN-uhn-guh-zahng”) [or Swan Song]
[10e] This Austrian Romantic composer of Schwanengesang also composed the song cycles Die schöne Müllerin (“DEE SHEY-nuh MOOLL-uh-rihn”) and Winterreise (“VIHN-tuh-rye-suh”).
ANSWER: Franz Schubert [or Franz Peter Schubert]
[10m] The poetry of Heinrich Heine (“HIGH-nuh”), which was set to music in Schwanengesang, was also used in this Robert Schumann song cycle that opens with the song “In beautiful May.”
ANSWER: Dichterliebe (”DEEK-tehr-LEEB-uh”) [or A Poet's Love]
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