Lot 146: SCHUBERT, FRANZ.

Autograph manuscript of the song "Nach einem Gewitter" D.561 ("Auf den Blumen flimmern"), signed and dated: "May 1817 Frz Schubert[paraph]"

Condition Note:

A setting of a poem by Mayrhofer, for voice and piano, written in brown ink on four systems of four staves, some extended into the margins by the composer, a working manuscript, with some corrections and alterations

2 pages, oblong 4to (c.24 x 31cms), no place [Vienna] May 1817

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CATALOGUE NOTE

This would appear to be a Schubert discovery: the autograph is listed as "verschollen" by Deutsch. The song, a strophic setting of the poem by Schubert's friend Mayrhofer, was unpublished in the composer's lifetime.