Franz Schubert
Written in C major, range E4 to F5
The title means “The Hurdy-Gurdy Man”. An old man stands barefoot on the ice outside the village, turning the crank of his hurdy-gurdy while nobody listens and dogs growl at him, and the singer wonders whether to go with him. It is the last song of Schubert’s Winterreise, published a few weeks after his death in 1828.
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