A identificação do mito da sereia a partir da análise do “Lied Der Fischerknabe”, de Franz Liszt

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to identify, from the application of analytical strands, how Franz Liszt (1811-1886) materializes the mermaid myth in his Lied Der Fischerknabe, about the writer's text Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805). The bibliographic survey reveals that Liszt is historically remembered for his exacerbated virtuosity and his contribution to the evolutionary path that harmony would follow in later decades; However, he is neglected as a songwriter by his contemporaries, such as Schubert, Schumann, Wolf and Brahms. In Der Fischerknabe, Liszt traces an intimate relationship between text and music, linking the subjective images of poetry to its harmonic language, melodic conduction, modulatory character, accompanying figuration, and constant tonal contrasts, thus presenting literary-musical images linked to the myth of the mermaid. It was concluded that the lyricism and the symbiosis between text and music reached by Liszt in this Lied approach the consecrated procedures of other geniuses related to the genre.

Keywords

• analysis
• lied
• franz liszt
• myth
• romantic period.