The Austrian composer Schubert created it in 1815 based on Goethe's poem of the same name. The author was only 18 years old at the time, and this ballade was compiled as Opus No. 1. The plot of the whole poem: the father is riding a horse in the dark forest with a child suffering from high fever in his arms. The devil in the forest keeps tempting the child, and the child screams in surprise, and finally dies in the arms of his father. The song adopts the notation technique, which is completed in one go and has great momentum. The four different roles of the narrator, father, child and devil in the poem are reflected by different tones. The author fully demonstrates the dramatic plot. For example, the piano accompaniment simulates the rhythm of galloping horses throughout the song, and the sound of wind played by the bass depicts the sardonic and aggressive scene of the cold wind in the forest at night, setting off a dull and fearful atmosphere. The author also imitates the child's exclamation with a small second upward stroke, vividly depicting the child's increasingly frightened expression.

"The Devil" is a dramatic and artistic narrative song. The singer must be good at using different timbre changes and emotional processing to express four different characters. This song was composed in 1815. The whole song is based on the narrative poem of the same name by the German poet Goethe. It uses different melodies and tones, paired with different singing voices, and a piano to imitate the continuous sound of galloping horse hooves and the whistling wind. It shows the four characters with different personalities and the specific environment in the narrative poem: son, father, devil and narrator. It tells the story of a dark and windy night when a father held his sick son in his arms and galloped his horse through the smog-shrouded forest. The nervous and frightened cry of the comatose child came from the darkness, and the vicious and cunning devil phantom was tempting and coercing the child to follow him. The story of his departure. Although the song develops freely, it maintains structural unity and formal perfection.

The first paragraph: The narrator sings in a colloquial recitation tone.

The second paragraph: a dialogue between father and son. In the low range of the voice, the music depicts the father's concern and comfort with a calm and balanced tone, and the father asks lovingly.

The third paragraph: The devil's music melody is lyrical, sweet, false, and cunning.

Then, the father and son talk again, and the devil advances step by step. The son is frightened and calls out to his father again and again, getting more and more frightened each time. Until the fifth paragraph, the devil uses both soft and hard tactics to intimidate.

In the last paragraph, the narrator describes the sad ending in an anxious and sad tone: the father rushed home, and his son had already died in his arms. The piano uses two fortissimo chords to express the exhausted father's grief-stricken mood.