Post by tango7 on Aug 19, 2015 9:08:06 GMT
The greatest songwriter of all time and the second greatest master of melodic, lyrical composition, Schubert had a natural mastery of all the forms of the day, but loved songs the most and wrote them so quickly that as soon as he was finished with one, he threw it to the floor and grabbed another sheet of paper to start another. He wrote “Hark, Hark, the lark”, one of his finest, on the back of a beer hall receipt, in one sitting. He wrote approximately 650 songs in the sixteen years of his career.His most famous work is his Piano Quintet, nicknamed The Trout, for the inclusion of one of his songs as a movement. He also wrote masses, 9 symphonies, of which the last two are universal brilliancies, sonatas, ballets, string quartets and operas.His finest works are his 8th and 9th Symphonies, his Trout Quintet, Ballet Music to Rosamunde, Marche Militaire and some of his songs, Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel, The Erl-King and Nacht und Träume (video below) among them.
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The video features American soloist Renée Fleming; and paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, Edward Hopper and Rembrandt, with artwork by Spadecaller.
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The video features American soloist Renée Fleming; and paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, Edward Hopper and Rembrandt, with artwork by Spadecaller.
