Erlkönig

Franz Schubert

For euphonium and piano

In B♭ major, range E2 to F4

The Erl-King is a ghostly king of the forest. A father gallops through the night with his son in his arms; only the boy can see the Erl-King, who tries to lure him away, and when they reach home the child is dead. Schubert wrote it to Goethe’s poem in 1815, at eighteen.

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