a veritable Schubertiade, XI
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May 17, 2024
a veritable Schubertiade, X
“Vienna“ (1914)
Thomas Hart Benton
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the three great representatives of the Romantic
Period in music are Beethoven, Schubert, both
linked to Vienna, see above, and Chopin, in the
other musical capital at the time, Paris
their basis is Classical, the rules set up by
Mozart and Haydn, tonality, tempo, and
repetition, which all of them rigorously
obey
Schubert wrote no concertos, Chopin wrote
no symphonies, Beethoven wrote for everything,
they all, in other words, had their particular lanes
Beethoven and Schubert, however, both Viennese,
see above, sound strikingly similar
here, in his Piano Sonata No 19 D 958 in C minor,
Schubert, at the very height of his powers,
technically, musically, aesthetically, incorporates,
miraculously, the spirits of both Beethoven, his
predecessor, and Mozart, Beethoven’s
predecessor, transforms them into something
like their accumulated gift to the world, a child
of their coordination, their lineage
listen
R ! chard
May 8, 2024
a veritable Schubertiade, IX
by the time of his Piano Sonata in G major,
D 894, October, 1826, Schubert would’ve
known he was about to die, he was 29,
he would die two years later, November,
1828, you can hear it, his encounter with
Heaven
this is not merely entertainment, this is
contemplation, a description of what he’s
seen at the Celestial Gates, you can
actually hear the stars twinkle in their
great expanse of infinity from the very
first movement
later, dance rhythms suggest an embrace,
an embrace as a symbol of acknowledgment,
acquiescence, acceptance, welcome, into
the Beyond, whatever you might want to
call it
Beethoven confronts God, Schubert describes
his personal death experience
but that’s not one, but a couple of other stories
meanwhile, listen
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