When the poems of a group of songs have a common link, and are for this reason grouped under a single Deutsch number, but there is no common narrative, the collection is rather qualified as a song set than a song cycle. Some of Schubert's song cycles contain both Lieder for solo voice as well as part songs. There is, however, always a piano accompaniment.
Don Gayseros
D 93, Song cycle Don Gayseros for voice and piano (1815?):[1][2][3]
Gesänge des Harfners aus "Wilhelm Meister" (The Songs of the Harpist from Wilhelm Meister), D 478 is a song cycle for voice and piano, first published in 1822 as Op. 12. The texts of the cycle derived from Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship.[4]
"Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergibt" ("Harfenspieler I" 2nd setting; 2nd version – 1822?)
"Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen aß", formerly D 480 ("Harfenspieler III" 3rd setting – 1822)
"An die Türen will ich schleichen", formerly D 479 ("Harfenspieler II" 2nd version – 1822?)
Alternative settings and versions of the "Harfenspieler" texts:[5]
"Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergibt":
D 325 "Harfenspieler" (1815, first setting)
D 478 "Harfenspieler I" (1816, 1st version of 2nd setting; modified 2nd version)
"An die Türen will ich schleichen":
D 478 (formerly D 479) "Harfenspieler II" (1816, 1st version; modified 2nd version)
"Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen aß":
D 478 (formerly D 480) "Harfenspieler III" (1816, 1st and 2nd settings; modified version of the 3rd setting)
Vier Canzonen
D 688, Song cycle Vier Canzonen for voice and piano (1820):[6]
1. D 837, Song "Ellens Gesang I" ['Raste, Krieger, Krieg ist aus'] for voice and piano (1825)
2. D 838, Song "Ellens Gesang II" ['Jäger, ruhe von der Jagd!'] for voice and piano (1825)
3. D 835, Quartet "Bootgesang" ['Triumph, er naht'] for two tenors, two basses and piano (1825)
4. D 836, Chorus "Coronach (Totengesang der Frauen und Mädchen)" ['Er ist uns geschieden'] for women’s choir and piano, Totengesang der Frauen und Mädchen (1825)
5. D 846, Song "Normans Gesang" ['Die Nacht bricht bald herein'] for voice and piano (1825)
6. D 839, Song "Ellens Gesang III (Hymne an die Jungfrau)" ['Ave Maria! Jungfrau mild'] for voice and piano, Ave Maria or Hymne an die Jungfrau (1825)
7. D 843, Song "Lied des gefangenen Jägers" ['Mein Roß so müd'] for voice and piano (1825)
Two scenes from the play "Lacrimas"
Op. posth. 124 – D 857, Two songs Zwei Szenen aus dem Schauspiel "Lacrimas" for voice and piano (1825):[9]
1. "Lied der Delphine" ['Ach, was soll ich beginnen vor Liebe?']
2. "Lied des Florio" ['Nun, da Schatten niedergleiten']
Vier Refrainlieder
Op. 95 – D 866, Song cycle Vier Refrainlieder for voice and piano (1828?):[10]
1. "Die Unterscheidung" ['Die Mutter hat mich jüngst gescholten']
2. "Bei dir allein" ['Bei dir allein empfind ich, daß ich lebe']
3. "Die Männer sind méchant" ['Du sagtest mir es, Mutter']
4. "Irdisches Glück" ['So mancher sieht mit finstrer Miene']
D 957, Not a song cycle, but a collection compiled by the publisher. 13 Lieder nach Gedichten von Rellstab und Heine for voice and piano (1828, published as Schwanengesang, with "Die Taubenpost" as 14th song added to the cycle). The first seven songs of the cycle are on poems by Ludwig Rellstab, the next six on poems by Heinrich Heine. D 965a "Die Taubenpost" on a poem by Johann Gabriel Seidl, presumably the last song Schubert composed, was added to the cycle by the publisher.[14]
1. "Liebesbotschaft" ['Rauschendes Bächlein, so silber und hell']
2. "Kriegers Ahnung" ['In tiefer Ruh liegt um mich her']
3. "Frühlingssehnsucht" ['Säuselnde Lüfte wehen so mild']
13. "Der Doppelgänger" ['Still ist die Nacht, es ruhen die Gassen']
14. "Die Taubenpost"
Auf den wilden Wegen
Auf den wilden Wegen: songs from the Poetisches Tagebuch of Ernst Schulze is musician Graham Johnson's proposal to group Schubert's ten settings of poems from Ernst Schulze's Poetisches Tagebuch in a single song cycle:[15][16]
D 853 – "Auf der Bruck" ("Auf der Brücke")
D 862 – "Um Mitternacht"
D 874 – "O Quell, was strömst du rasch und wild" (completed by Reinhard van Hoorickx)