Winterreise is Schubert's opus 89. Around Otto Erich Deutsch's catalogue of his works, it is 500. 911. It followed Schubert's sooner song period, Die schöne Müllerin.

A songs inside Winterreise come linked as the sequence of reflections per singer ingesting the lonely hike within a wintertime's nighttime, remember in his wasted love. the lonely themes of cold, darkness, & a barren wintertime landscape predominate, sustaining occasional encounters sustaining more over night wanderers, like a pass postal coach around Die Post. A fifth song, Der Lindenbaum, sustaining the lingering view the lime tree that whispers thoughts of suicide, occurs as popular extract from either this period. the period ceases using the sad, lingering view a frozen hurdy-gurdy human within Der Leiermann. A parallel by having a singer singing his sad songs around a ice & a slow, unsolved melody of a hurdy-gurdy concludes the period by having an spookily bare sense that is perfectly in character sustaining the lonely vagabondage of the singer.