Der Lindenbaum

Franz Schubert

For alto sax and piano

Written in C major, range G4 to C6

The title means “The Linden Tree”. A wanderer in winter passes the linden tree by the town well, where he once dreamed happy dreams, and in the dark its rustling leaves seem to call him to stay and rest. It is from Schubert’s Winterreise (1827); in a simpler version by Friedrich Silcher it became the German folk song “Am Brunnen vor dem Tore”.

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