Der Leiermann 

He did more than just sing, he took us to the scene.

If this music doesn't break your heart, you have no heart. Incredible.

My mum used to sing this song to me as a child when I couldn’t sleep. I remember thinking about those lyrics for hours and hours, a hauntingly beautiful melody

I relate to this song in ways I fear I shouldn't. When I was a kid, I knew well the songs of beggars grinding away at their guitars' strings as the winter cold set in. I was told to not even make eye contact with them by my parents. But then, when I started to run away from school, they were the among only people I could turn to and trust. And so I went with the strange old men, and to their songs I lived the darkest years of my life.

His face froze with the tragic of the song, mesmerzing, fixating, devastating. No one else can ever interpret this song better. Forever Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau !

This one is for eternity.

Few besides Schubert could use simplicity so powerfully as in this song. Hearing it sung by one of history's greatest talents is a real treat.

The great film In Bruges brought this great Lied of Schubert's to a wider audience. Both deserve recognition for their exceptionality.

A song that tears at the soul, sung with all the heart and wrenching emotion by an artist who can match the majesty of this tale of grief.

I'm thankful he was here, but I still can't believe he's gone. That whole generation that taught me how to love music. Nearly all of them gone.

What gets me about this song is in the last line, which changes the viewpoint from us pitying the leierman to us, the poet/composer/singer casting our lot with his. It is our song the world disdains, it is we who stand in the cold, singing the only song we can. Excellent performances from all.

Exellent concetration and he has the story in his eyes all the time

"Wunderlicher Alter, soll ich mit Dir gehen?" Die Antwort ist dann wohl ja. RIP Fischer-Dieskau.

So so sad; heart-wrenching; and yet somehow so beautiful too. What a song! Genius Schubert! Fischer-Dieskau just perfect!

In Bruges is a great movie. But like usual, the overwhelming greatness of a single, brief musical selection leads one, intrigued, down an unexpected alley towards something timeless; an overgrown, lamp-lit path from times gone by that won't leave one's soul alone, and that one must seek out...

What wonderful tone on that piano. Like bells. Fischer-Dieskau is amazing as always.

truly a master-class performance, it really is the little things that make it, things that go beyond musical talent. his icy dead stare he never breaks, or the way he tremolos and rolls his R as he sings of snarling dogs, truly beautiful.

There, behind the village, stands a hurdy-gurdy-man, And with numb fingers he plays the best he can. Barefoot on the ice, he staggers back and forth, And his little plate remains ever empty. No one wants to hear him, no one looks at him, And the hounds snarl at the old man. And he lets it all go by, everything as it will, He plays, and his hurdy-gurdy is never still. Strange old man, shall I go with you? Will you play your hurdy-gurdy to my songs?

What an artist the man was! My only problem with his singing of lieder is that I have difficulty listening to anyone else singing them- his voice and interpretation are so much in my head, and he reaches such perfection. I know it isn't fair, and I have heard other great performances, but only Fischer-Dieskau reaches this level of perfection to me.

How can something be so painful and beautiful at the same time? Such are paradoxes of great art.

Ich habe versucht es zu singen aber an so eine Leistung komme ich weiß Gott nicht heran. Einer der großartigsten Baritone die diese Welt gesehen hat.

Dieskau was a god. I am utterly devastated in the best way by his performances. Brilliant and beautiful.

sowohl zu dieser komposition als auch zu dieser stimme kann ich nichts mehr sagen. mir fehlen wie immer die worte, wenn ich dieses stück höre! ein wahres meisterwerk.

Danke, Herr Fischer-Dieskau ganz herzlich für die Tolle Musik. Ruhe in Frieden.

Ich werde alt. Da werden diese Lieder bedeutender als alles Sinfonien.

I shiver at the first chord. Wonderfull music.

The Hurdy-Gurdy Man: certainly the strangest & darkest tune Schubert ever penned!

"Magico vecchio, devo venire con te? Vuoi far girare la tua ruota per accompagnare il mio canto?" Il grande Fischer-Dieskau ci accompagna ancora con la sua arte.

Greatest songwriter of all time. Wonderful performance.

Stunning! It is a struggle to summon the literary skills to provide an accurate word picture of the bleak scene that this rendition evokes. So profoundly haunting! The expression on the face of DFD is so telling.

Fischer - Dieskau und Thomas Quasthoff sind für mich die besten Interpreten dieses Liedes. Zwei ganz Große der Liedinterpretation, die berühren !!!!

just so poignant and beautiful and that teutonic fixed gaze is just something to behold ..

Schubert's piano accompaniments to his songs are one of the things that lifts them to the heights of greatness. That little grace note and mournful scrap of melody that the piece opens with really set the mood.

There is a kind of medieval feeling to this lieder, what a powerful interpretation.

What an extraordinary performance! The range of color, and nuances are just stunning. Such a haunting piece, in this interpretation.

Wenn ich dieses Lied höre, fühle ich mich schmerz. Er sing sehr kalt und berührt mein Herz tief, obwohl er nicht mit dem schwungvollen Gefühl singt. Man verfallt sich in Einsamkeit und findet das Selbst.

We have lost such a beautiful voice. Thank you, Dietrich, for sharing your gift with us while you lived. You have been a huge inspiration to me in my own study and performance.

Superb - very atmospheric and strange and beautiful piece of music to end Schubert's great and mysterious song cycle

THE LIEDER OF SCHUBERT, THE TALES OF WINTER ARE MY FAVORITES. TRANSMIT A FEELING MELANCHOLY OF SEASON AND GERMAN. DER LEIERMANN is GORGEOUS! AND SUNG BY DIETRICH IS SPECIAL. THE MOST BEAUTIFUL OF ALL Der Lindenbaum is! THANKS FOR THE POST! BRAVOOOOOOOOOOO

Nobody is able to encapsulate such deep pain through music the way Franz Schubert did.

Well My name is SOUHAIL ELMAKHLOUFI IM FROM MOROCCO 🇲🇦 , KENITRA CITY AND THIS My favourite music ever IS THERE ANY Moroccan knows this song or just me 🙄 ?

The way he shows emotion with his eyes...

RIP to this wonderful musician. His legacy will live on for many generations.

This is just tearjerking. Especially when you consider that this is _the last composition that Schubert ever wrote._

Never heard this before!!! just wow can't stop listening to it..Outstanding voice.

A masterpiece! When the artist being Schubert or Muller or Dietrich Fischer, etc. looks back, in late life and takes stock of his existence, his hard journey, his losses, the perception of his contemporaries of him and his work, and his sad ending and oblivion. It’s like Dietrich is singing for himself and recalling a personal experience he had two hundred years ago, composed by Muller and Schubert.

Die Winterreise von Schubert ist eines seiner ergreifendsten Werke. Mir geht's unter die Haut .

I love the sound of German and I speak very little of it. I LOVE german opera.

Atemräubend, breathtaking, sublime...

RIP, Dietrich. Obrigado por ter existido.

He does nothing with his arms or body. Only his eyes shine with hope or fade in the end. Он ничего не делает телом, руками... Только его глаза загораются надеждой или гаснут к концу... Гениальное просто.

thank you Dietrich

The 79 dark, ignorant, and soulless entities who voted this thumbs down must be insane.

Schubert put even the pedal note of the hurdy-gurdy to sound during the entire music, masterpiece.

Grandios! Niemand konnte und kann so singen! Mehr Ausdruck und Gesang geht nicht.

He sings this song perfect. He has so much raw emotion going into it. I'm in love

vous restez dans nos coeurs, nos oreilles et nos âmes pour l'éternité...

I never before heard this song so beautiful! My greatest respect! Truly outstanding!

A true performer. Even a continuous close-up of 4 minutes long keeps exciting.

Very beautiful.

Schubert is a genius to come up with this simple depiction of a hurry-gurdy player rather than try to set the text in a more typical, melodic manner. Chilling!

A magnificent performance by two magnificent performers. Bravo.

Dieskau is a true master . . . he was born to sing this cycle . . . born to sing Schubert . . . among others . . . Die Winterreise is, by far, my favorite song cycle by any composer . . . and this my favorite song of the cycle

Adieu Maestro ,et mille fois merci

2:42 Uhr. Ich kann dieses Lied nicht loslassen. Müsste eigentlich schlafen. Doch es ist zu schön.

Whenever the lonliness overwhelms me i come here.

What a beautiful and moving song! Thank you for posting.

What a voice this man had! I have loved it since I was a young man, 65 years ago, at least.

Einfach unglaublich schön gesungen Bravoo

absolutely AMAZING performance, heavenly...

Can't have enough of this song. Superb lieder!

a truly stunning performance. Thank you for uploading.

"Wonderful" is not enough.

The first notes always give me intences emotions. Music of the Soul

I’m on the verge of tears.

Beautiful, and the drone on Brendal's piano is so evocative.

I will always be frustrated and sad that Schubert died too young. It's just not fair, really not fair....

My God, so much power, emotion and metaphoric meaning, with so little musical fuss!

R.I.P. und vielen Dank.

Simply wonderful !!!!!

Absolut großartig!

Magnificent.

One likes to think that both Schubert and Maestro Dieskau have found rest in heaven.

Amazing I just can't comprehend why anyone would dislike this

Abfallende Quinten, die die Trauer und Verlorenheit symbolisieren. Sehr schön und mit tiefen kongenialen Verständnis gesungen. Dietrich Fischer Dieskau Schubert Interpretationen und sängerische Ausdruckskraft haben Standards gesetzt für alle nachfolgenden Sänger des romantischen Repertoires. Großartiger Sänger und hervorragende Interpret.

Divino, transcendental.

Deeply touching.

Immenso interprete. Ipnotico.

The pinnacle of Art.

Next to his 1948 interpretation of "Ständchen" from Schubert's "Schwanengesang," this is easily my favorite Lied. He puts tremendous emotion into the song. Clearly, he identifies profoundly with its theme.

A world of desolation explored and expressed in under four minutes as only Schubert and Fischer-Dieskau could do. It's not just the song but the loss that makes me feel so bereft these last days.

„Er sang uns nun mit bewegter Stimme die ganze ‚Winterreise‘ durch. Wir waren über die düstere Stimmung der Lieder ganz verblüfft, und Schober sagte, es habe ihm nur ein Lied, ‚Der Lindenbaum‘, gefallen. Schubert sagte hierauf nur, ‚mir gefallen diese Lieder mehr als alle, und sie werden euch auch noch gefallen‘; und er hatte recht.“ - so berichtet Spaun, was in Frühjahr 1827 passiert hat. Kein Wunder, dass mehrere Leute heute auch genauso fühlen und "Lindenbaum" wie ein Volkslied beliebt wird.

The late Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau was known as the finest interpreter of Suchubert in our time. There's a reason for that.

Oohh yes..! What a beautiful voice...

Das ist sehr kaltes trauriges Lied. Ich bekomme fast Schmerzen.

Braaaava wunderschön eine fantastische gesantechnick und tolle aussprache woow einfach diskau

RIP. the most!!!

SO Beautiful Thank You

Wasn't this the great baritone's last taping of the song cycle? Even so he brings a lifetime of living with this wonderful music. In the 70's he came to Los Angeles twice, once for this music and later a performance of Das Lied with Jon Vickers who unfortunately was ill he evening I went and was replaced by Helge Brilioth who had great promise but alas flame out. Still hearing DFD is something I will never forget.

Beautiful.