Der 'Doppelganger' - Towards a functional-historical description of Schubert's Heine settings (Lieder, music, Romantic movement)

The setting of Schubert's 'Lieder' must be understood as documents of how t he Romantic literary movement was received in music. In order to show this, the role of music and the musical within the framework of romantic poetics and language philosophy has to be re-considered. This makes it possible to apply the capacity of music to display its own materiality to the self-ref erentiality of the Romantic poem. Taking up this approach, the study centre s on Franz Schubert's setting of Heinrich Heine's Doppelganger