There are two of the most dazzling gems of 19th-century orchestral music (the Unfinished and Great C major symphonies), four profoundly original string quartets and an even greater string quintet, a wealth of glorious piano music, some of the most original choral works of the Romantic era, and an awe-inspiring legacy of well over 600 hundred songs – the latter not so much a treasure chest as an immense vault one could spend a lifetime exploring. In less than 32 years, he came up with over 600 lieder, nine symphonies, a fair number of masses, quite a few operas, a magnificent body of chamber music and some exceptional piano works. But the best is unsurpassed – and there’s so much of it. Musical Muscle Schubert is undoubtedly one of the greats, and possibly the finest songwriter that ever lived.
And while some of his operas have begun to be reappraised in our time, they’re still far from being standard repertory. Schubert wrote no concertos and very few display pieces in any form as a pianist he was more than competent but no virtuoso. But – and granted the range of his success isn’t as stupefyingly broad as Mozart’s – I’d like to suggest that the achievement of Franz Peter Schubert is every bit as prodigious. Schubert's Lieder would come to influence the song-writing of many later composers, including Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, and Hugo Wolf (1860-1903).Read the words ‘musical prodigy’ and which name comes to mind? Ten to one you’re already thinking of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: composer of his first symphony at the age of eight and his first opera at 11, performing at the Court of Louis XV at seven, and going on to enrich just about every important musical genre with significant masterpieces before dying at the obscenely early age of 35. With well over six hundred lieder, scores of chamber and solo instrumental works, symphonies. "Wohin?" from the song cycle, Die schöne Müllerin (The Fair Maid of the Mill) is an outstanding example of the almost limitless artistry of this composer. Franz Schubert was by any standard a prolific composer. Composer Lucas Cantor oversees a 67-piece orchestra rehearsing new movements of. His two song cycles (groups of poems by a single or various authors selected because of thematic content, and usually published together), yield some of the finest examples of Schubert's Lieder. Artificial intelligence is giving composers new tools for composing and collaborating, but some see a downside. Through his choice of beautiful poetry by some of the best writers of the day, his inspired melodies, and his sometimes elaborate treatment of the piano part, many of Schubert's songs are miniature masterpieces of poetic and dramatic beauty. Here is a look through Schubert’s operatic output and a kind reminder that the genius’ craft for the vocal instrument extended beyond art song. The story is of a promising love affair that unfortunately reached an unintentional end and is a typical operetta intrigue - 'The House of Three Girls' was a successful operetta based entirely on Schuberts. 8 in B minor remains one of his most often heard and best-loved works.īut it is his songs, or German Lieder, for which Schubert is best known. Karlheinz Böhm plays Schubert with convincing sympathy and communicates a very truthful image of the young composers amiable personality. Although left unfinished for unknown reasons, Schubert's stirring and beautiful Symphony no. Outstanding examples of his gift for melody can be found in the popular Piano Quintet in A major (Trout), which includes a set of variations on the tune of one of his popular songs, and from which it gets its nickname, "The Trout". Schubert's music is also passionate, sometimes even dark, with an emphasis on major/minor key shifts and adventurous harmonic writing. But regardless of the genre, his gift for creating beautiful melodies remains almost unsurpassed in music history. In his tragically short life, Schubert composed operas, symphonies, sonatas, masses, chamber music, piano music, and over 600 songs.
Schubert's music neatly bridges the Classical and Romantic periods through its use of lovely melodies, inventive scoring, and nature imagery, wedded to the traditional classical forms while at the same time expanding them. Born: Himmelpfortgrund (Vienna), January 31, 1797
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