Der Doppelganger - Schubert (Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau)

[Jeehana11]

it translates as 'ghostly double'

[Raxmio13]

Libertein818 , i think Doppleganger means walking Double,because a Doppleganger is a creature that looks like you ,the same effect as a mirror but personificed (sorry for my englisch i´m a native German and i dont write it so well)

[Raxmio13]

ich liebe dieses Lied es ist einfach fantastisch!

[maxibusch]

Das Lied heißt "Der Doppelgänger", mit 'ä' ;)

[LovePauline27]

sala samobojcow <3

[majakoman1]

help me with lirycs!!!!! do you have oryginal one??

[Unbihexium]

@majakoman1 It depends on what you mean by "oryginal one". You either go to Wikipedia, or an auction, but in the latter case you probably will need a big sum of money and an even bigger fortune. Good luck! ;-)

[haaha54587]

ich hör mir das nur an weil ich lernen muss und ich muss das wissen :( ich hasse solche musik  KOTZ

[2121Majka]

Chciała bym posłuchać na żywo, bo to jest... niesamowite... O.O

[TheSwordsweeper]

Now, THIS is a masterpiece!

[JacobDropDeadJackson]

I love it <33... 

[songersogner]

This is wonderful.

[ekonvollm]

Eine unglaubliche Leistung von DFD! Dieses Schubert-Lied ist nicht besser zu interpretieren.

[MartinaFromPoland]

so tragic...

[Saternuss]

Piękna pieśń.



[MartinaFromPoland]

@Saternuss piękna...

[ironwolg]

i'm going to try to put this on guitar with classical acoustic playing the chords and electric playing the melody, hopefully i can get the right sound and feeling with the electric guitar

[HaustoriaPith]

This is fantastic. It's one of my favorite pieces. I'm going to attempt to perform it this year, and maybe use the rest of the works from Schwanengesang for my recital.

[drohan100]

@eusebium7 to be honest, I find thi particular piece to be one of the best tenor vocalists works, truth be told I would love to be able to manage it! I agree with your remarkable analysis, it is mesmerising

[drohan100]

@eusebiu

[Susannekaffeekanne]

fett!

[drohan100]

As a pianist I would agree with the debussy, but my relative lack of skill in the department means the Debussy is slightly intimidating to read as a score :)

[shulizim]

lol @ 3:55

[leisema]

La perfección existe! Gracias

[da7thsaint]

It means the "Phantom Double." Referring to a most realistic projectory image of past or even present events. This is quite a remarkable piece, one of which I will be performing shortly.

[twilightdweller1]

My father wants to teach me how to sing this song. Why not? It's good to know this type of music.

[thatwilldonicely]

in my view the greatest song ever composed by anyone in human musical history.

[silentmason]

This piece is marvelous, but I think Das Erlkonig is even more haunting/beautiful. If anyone hasn't heard it, you should.

[stevevandien]

DFD is superb -- his vocal technique and interpretative skills here are about as good as they could be. They give us a powerful performance of this great lied. Who's the pianist? Gerald Moore or Jorg Demus, perhaps?

[eusebium7]

@stevevandien It could be Christoph Eschenbach. In fact, I am inclined to think it is.

[stevevandien]

@eusebium7 Thank you for the information:) --

[drohan100]

i love this, im singing it for my A2 performance soon. Its a beautiful account of a poem.

I oprefer this to the debussy sarabande actually, the tempo rubato in that mucks my head up.

Look into the words to this translated, it really brings home the meaning of the piece and its open 3rds at the opening.

Beautiful

[OverFjell]

@drohan100 I love both pieces, but being a pianist, the Debussy takes it for me, really nice piece to play.

[eusebium7]

@drohan100 The Debussy Serenade is a pretty piece, but in no way should it be compared to this lied, a work of epochal metaphysical depth and terror, a work piercing the barrier to the void, a glimpse of the great unknown.

[Tenorosa]

Oh wow I love lieder, I wish I knew german so I can sing tenor lieder, especially these foreboding death poems.

[eusebium7]

@Tenorosa This is not a 'tenor lieder', it can be sung by bass, just transposed, in fact most of the most famous interpreters of this song have been baritones/basses. Fischer-Dieskau is the most famous (a baritone with a strong lower register) but Hans Hotter is in my view, more memorable (also sopranos have sung the Schwanengesang, of which this lied forms the emotional centre point)

[eusebium7]

@eusebium7 Indeed the first famous interpreter of Schubert lieder was a baritone, Michael Vogl (Schubert himself apparently was a light tenor)

[Thisbe2410]

Ich finde es jedes Mal unheimlich.

Aber wunderschön, bekomme bei dem Cresendo jedes Mal Gänsehaut.

[kolopo908]

Creeps me out everytime

[alex7700585]

"Doppleganger" means body double, however in German folklore, is a vision of one's double one sees before dying.

[Libertein818]

that makes sense cheers. : )

[Libertein818]

absolutely fantastic. just one question im pretty sure dopple means double but what does ganger mean?

[OverFjell]

Doppelganger means Double Walker, I believe.

[doctorgino2]

doppelganger means double-fellow (somebody who looks exactely like you do)

[Libertein818]

oh ok. seems like an odd subject. doesn't seem like it would fit this masterpiece.oh well it's still brilliant whatever it's talking about.

[OverFjell]

The piece is about a man, walking down the street at the dead of night, he comes past the house where his lover once lived, she has long since left the city, he sees a man outside the house, wringing his hands in pain, the singer then realises, the man is himself. The Doppelganger 'apes' the pain of the singers love.

[Libertein818]

your very knowledgable about all this, thanks.

[ledzeppelin489]

@OverFjell did you get that from wikipedia too?

[MrAlilovic1989]

@OverFjell

No it means, that he is his duplicate, his imitator. Diffucult to translate

[zporobija]

@Libertein818 A sort of twin, a shadow-twin, so to say.

[guitarplayer7694]

Relaxing.

[SovietGuy101]

its only fantastic works like this that really make us appreciate romantic, classical and baroque music. i think we should be proud of German composers like Bach, Handel, Mozart, Bethoven, Schubert,Wagner, Hayden. all beautiful songs

[bobmgeesleftfoot]

schubert came from viena

[nique21nue]

one word

goosebumps

[boxmanlol]

im studying this for A level too. It depresses my whole class and we just wind up our teacher about it lol.

[SovietGuy101]

but the music beautifully compliments the poem. i mean the words may depress you but the diminished chords in some places determin the facts.

[scottieTbone]

now as i dont have the score i cant be sure but i dont believe there are any diminished chords at all in this piece. however there is use of augmented 6ths and bare tritones. lol

[sborgello]

first he uses 4 bars only incomplete accords (no 3rd). on "shatz" he uses a V4/3.

No diminished, lots of augmented 6ths ("shmerzens" "Gestalt" "SO -manche nacht".

he uses complete chord on the III, 4 example at "wohnte meine". At "was affst du nacht mein" he goes to Re#- with an enarmonic tranistion.

When he says "Du doppleganger, du bleicher geselle" he uses two chords on the V grade without the 3rd and, with a diminished 5th (in order Vb5(no 3rd) and then V(no3rd))

[kolopo908]

That sounds real AS level music..

[cinamongrahams]

I actually just finished the question's in AS music study guide on this piece.. :D nice to see a level students for music, quite a rarety.

[dan4432]

im singing this for a level and it comes first

[62748152]

I am studying this for A Level. This comes second in my opinion to debussys 'pour le piano'

[SovietGuy101]

Well debusy made a fantastic song called "L'après-midi d'un faune" i recomend u listen to this work. i did it for a-level till they changed the syllabus. if u've heard it already? then i want to hear your opinion on it

[trolleysforlife]

this is schubert, not debussy :)

[aliceinwonderland64]

Maybe if you learn the story, the words and the poem behind it you'll apprieciate it more :)

[danohrly]

Listened to his orchestral works, or purely piano?

[IMunnaEatChooo]

I am ALSO studying this for a level, and it definitely beats the others :P

[hidastuu]

It always hits me, how can this song be written in the 19th century? This is so 1920's, this is Murnau!

[Slava69]

Who's singing?

[OverFjell]

I have absolutely no idea.

[Slava69]

lol I think i've heard this singer this afternoon but i can't remember his name..

[liedfreak]

Sounds to me like Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau towards the end of his career, perhaps in the 80's.

[AltheFolker]

Am studying this piece in A level music, using this recording. Pretty sure it is Fischer-Dieskau.

This recording is actually played a tone lower than it is written! Probably so Fischer-Dieskau could the top note

[OverFjell]

I'm studying it too ;D

[dan4432]

the person singing is in teh name of the video

[OverFjell]

Yeah, because the kind people on the comments told me xD.

[aliceinwonderland64]

so chilling - i love this recording.

:) thanks for posting