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Der Zwerg (Schubert)
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This article is about the Schubert song. For the opera by Zemlinky, see der Zwerg.
Der Zwerg (The Dwarf) is a lied (or ballad) for voice and piano by Franz Schubert, written in the mid-1820s on a text by Matthäus von Collin. The poem is in terza rima. In Otto Erich Deutsch's catalogue of Schubert's works, it is Op. 22, No. 1, D. 771.
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The singer sings in three different voices: the Dwarf, his mistress the Queen (whom the Dwarf strangles with a red silk scarf in the song), and the narrator.
Recordings are available by several notable singers, including George London,[1] Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau,[2] Lula Mysz-Gmeiner,[3] Thomas Quasthoff,[4] Jessye Norman,[5] Ian Bostridge,[6] and Matthias Goerne.