La tragedia greca nei Lieder di Franz Schubert

The article analyses seven Antikenlieder composed by Franz Schubert, which have for subject the characters and events of Greek tragedy. The librettos of the first six Lieder are written by Johann Mayrhofer, while the last one, Hippolit's Lied, is written by Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg. This paper focuses on the literary value of the poems, which so far have inspired studies about classical music leaving poetry in the background. The aim is to examine for the first time how Greek tragedy is revisited in Schubert's Antikenlieder and to understand how much the eighteenth-century's indirect tradition influenced the version of events they accept.