With its unquestioned joy and natural simplicity, this piece has an irresistible appeal.įIRST MOVEMENT (ALLEGRO VIVACE, 13:20) With the double bass providing a sonorous foundation, the piano doesn’t need to provide a bass line here, and so is frequently used as a purely melodic instrument. Schubert’s early masterpiece adds a double bass, rather than the more usual second violin, to the piano-quartet ensemble. Quintet for Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello & Double bass in A major ("Trout"), D. Some of Schubert's finest compositions were written during the last year of his life, including his masterly trio of Piano sonatas in С minor, A major, and B flat. Yet Schubert was still able to put his morbidity aside, albeit temporarily 1827 is also the date of several lighter pieces for piano - the Impromptus and the Moments musicaux - which form the ideal introduction to his instrumental music and anticipate the Ballades of Chopin and Brahms, while revealing a greater emotional range than either. In the latter cycle, where the hero has lost his love before the cycle's beginning, the songs create an unrelenting portrait of gloom set in the frozen landscape of death. Although it contains much joyful music, its sad ending anticipates the tone of his tragic second cycle, Winterreise (Winter Journey), written in 1827 after four years of illness. The cycle depicts the ill-fated love of a young man for a miller's daughter. Some of the stings for his first song-cycle, Die schone Mullerin (The Fair Maid of the Mill), were written while in hospital in 1823. 9 in С (The Great), a work grander and more profound than any of Schubert's other symphonies. Nevertheless, he returned to the symphonic form soon afterwards to compose the Symphony No. It transformed his entire outlook, and while many reasons are put forward for his failure to complete his Eighth symphony, begun the year before his illness, it may be that it marked a period in his life which came to repel him. In reality Schubert died prematurely of a disfiguring disease, his mind poisoned by the idea of the fate that inevitably awaited him. Yet our notion of a fat, jolly amateur, leaving his coffeehouse only to dash off another carefree masterpiece, is myth. This is the radiant Schubert everybody thinks they know. Over the next five years alone, in an inexhaustible surge of creativity, he wrote five symphonies, six operas, and 300 songs (Lieder). He left the college in 1813 to train as a teacher before returning home to work in his father's school.
#SCHUBERT COMPOSITIONS IN 1827 SERIES#
Under Salieri's tutelage he wrote an opera and a series of quartets by the age of 15. At 11 his serious musical education began when he won a choral scholarship to the Konvikt, Vienna's Imperial College. From his family he learnt the piano and violin, soon outstripping everyone else in the household. His shyness and lack of instrumental virtuosity contributed to the hardships he endured, but he was responsible for a magnificent body of work that is still appraised and appreciated today.īorn in the suburb of Lichtental, he was the fourth son of a schoolmaster. Of the great composers associated with Vienna - the others being Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven - Schubert was the only one born in the city, and the only one who failed to achieve international fame in his lifetime.
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