ABSTRACT
This chapter presents four songs to poems by Johann Gabriel Seidl published by Josef Czerny on 21 November 1828. The four songs are Widerspruch; Wiegenlied; Am Fenster and Sehnsucht. Schubert compiled this set in early August 1828 for on the 4th he wrote to Seidl asking him to return his settings of Widerspruch and Wiegenlied so that he could publish them. It was probably Czerny who asked him to produce another set of Seidl songs even though Weigl was about to bring out the Four Refrain Songs, Opus. 95. Three of the songs had been published as Opus. 80. The other three, Wiegenlied, Am Fenster and Sehnsucht were too short to make a set by themselves. Schubert therefore made use of the first tenor line of one of the part-songs. Wiegenlied, Am Fenster and Sehnsucht are prime examples of Schubert's use of modified strophic form, and in the context of the set Widerspruch can be counted as another.
