An Rosa I ("Warum bist du nicht hier"), song for voice & piano, D. 315

• Date: October 19, 1815
• Composer: Franz Schubert
• Period: Romantic (1820-1869)

Review

Ludwig Kosegarten wrote four poems entitled "Rosa." The first and fourth were apparently enormously long and prolix, thereby defying musical setting, but the second and third were short lyrical poems which invited musical setting. Schubert provided this on October 19, 1815, the day which saw a total of seven Kosegarten songs. The first of them, An Rosa I (To Rosa) (D. 315), is in triple time and warm A flat major with a vocal melody which moves gently but impetuously over the quietly rapturous piano accompaniment. With only two verses lasting less than a minute and a half in performance, An Rosa I is brief and charming. ~ James Leonard, Rovi

Albums with Complete Performances of the Work

Title	Date
An 1815 Schubertiad II (The Complete Songs, Vol. 22)	1994
Franz Schubert: Lieder, Volume I
Franz Schubert: The Complete Songs	2005
Schubert: Lieder
Schubert: Lieder
Schubert: Lieder [Box Set]	2005
Schubert: Poets of Sensibility, Vol. 5	2006
Schubert: The Complete Lieder

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