sonatas, continued (String Quintet in C, D. 956 – Schubert)

by richibi

 

     “Driveway“ (1872 – 1873) 

           Vincent van Gogh 

                  ________

if a quartet is a piece of music for four instruments,

if a quartet is also a piece of music consisting of 

more than one segment of music, movements –

two definitions just to confuse things – a quintet is, 

in the same manner, a piece of music written for 

five instruments, as well as a piece of music 

consisting of more than one segment of music, 

as a trio is for three, a sextet, yes, a sextet, is 

for six, and so forth

 

any of these groupings can nevertheless do 

nocturnes, tangos, ballades, pieces of music

consisting of only one segment, movements 

 

here is perhaps the most influential quintet of

all time, Schubert’s D956, you will have heard 

it, at least some of it, somewhere, probably, as 

part of the cultural heritage of the West, should 

your heritage be of the West, hearing it is as if 

coming upon, musically speaking, any one

of, for instance, Van Gogh’s masterpieces, 

see above, we still bathe in its, their, 

however subconscious, impact

 

listen

 

 

R ! chard