Winterreise

Winterreise
Song cycle by Franz Schubert
Schubert in 1825, by Wilhelm August Rieder, 1875 oil painting after a watercolor
Catalogue	D. 911
Opus	89
Text	poems by Wilhelm Müller
Composed	1827 (1827)
Published	1828 (1828)
Movements	24
Scoring	tenor piano

Winterreise (German pronunciation: [ˈvɪntɐˌʁaɪzə], Winter Journey) is a song cycle for voice and piano by Franz Schubert (D. 911, published as Op. 89 in 1828), a setting of 24 poems by German poet Wilhelm Müller. It is the second of Schubert's two song cycles on Müller's poems, the earlier being Die schöne Müllerin (D. 795, Op. 25, 1823).

Both were originally written for tenor voice but are frequently transposed to other vocal ranges, a precedent set by Schubert himself. The two works pose interpretative demands on listeners and performers due to their scale and structural coherence. Although Ludwig van Beethoven's cycle An die ferne Geliebte (To the Distant Beloved) was published earlier, in 1816, Schubert's cycles hold the foremost place in the genre's history.

The autograph manuscript of the cycle is preserved in the Morgan Library & Museum.