Heidenröslein

Franz Schubert

For tenor sax and piano

Written in F major, range F4 to F5

The title means “Little Rose on the Heath”. A boy wants to pick a wild rose; she warns him that she will prick him, but he picks her anyway, and her crying doesn’t help her. Schubert wrote it to Goethe’s poem in 1815, at eighteen, as simple as a folk song.

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