a veritable Schubertiade, V

The dreamer, 1820 - 1840 - Caspar David Friedrich

       “The Dreamer“ (1820 – 1840) 

 

            Caspar David Friedrich

 

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from the start, in his Piano Sonata in C major, D 840,

Schubert is steeped in Mozart, the exhilaration, the 

fantasy, not surprisingly, Mozart is Schubert’s 

motherland, the courts, the salons, the chamber 

music, in Schubert’s day, aristocrats still sponsored, 

to a great degree, the arts

    

but soon the Romantic impulse takes hold, the

introduction of melancholy into the mix, rather 

than sang froid, artifice, merely, Schubert has 

imbibed, to supplement his manifest technical 

agilities, the temper of the times, Schubert is 

moving his cultural world forward, into 

Romanticism, see above

    

there are only two movements in his D 840,

there are sketches of its third and fourth

movements, but Schubert had abandoned

them, the sonata, unfinished, was only 

published after he died, profoundly worthy

still, if truncated

    

what do you think

   

listen

 

   

R ! chard