Winterreise

One Piece for Quiet Sadness: Franz Schubert — Winterreise (The Winter Journey)

There are seasons when sadness arrives quietly. Nothing dramatic has happened, yet something feels distant, and the world seems a little less familiar than before.Schubert’s Winterreise does not try to fix that feeling. It walks with it.In Gute Nacht (“Good Night”), the journey begins gently, as if leaving were still...