a veritable Schubertiade, X

Vienna, 1914 - Thomas Hart Benton

      “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