In the course of his short life, the composer Franz Schubert (1797-1828) produced around two thousand works, including six hundred songs. Of these The Trout is undoubtedly the most well known, the ballad of thefish which takes the bait and is caught by the angler. So delightful and memorable is its melody that this song became world famous. In this arrangement for recorder groups, each player gets a chance to play the melody once.