 | Schubert, Franz Peter - "Frühlingsglaube" for Flute & Strings D.686b Op. 20 No. 2 Flute and String Quartet |
Frühlingsglaube for Flute & Strings
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| Composer : | Schubert, Franz Peter (1797 - 1828) | ||||
| Instrumentation : | Flute and String Quartet | ||||
| Style : | Classical | ||||
| Arranger : Publisher : | MAGATAGAN, MICHAEL (1960 - ) | ||||
| Copyright : | Public Domain | ||||
| Added by magataganm, 29 Sep 2023 Franz Peter Schubert (1797 – 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short life, Schubert left behind a vast oeuvre, including more than 600 secular vocal works (mainly lieder), seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music, and a large body of piano and chamber music. His major works include the art song "Erlkönig", the Piano Trout Quintet in A major, the unfinished Symphony No. 8 in B minor, the "Great" Symphony No. 9 in C major, a String Quintet, the three last piano sonatas, the opera Fierrabras, the incidental music to the play Rosamunde, and the song cycles Die schöne Müllerin and Winterreise. He was remarkably prolific, writing over 1,500 works in his short career. His compositional style progressed rapidly throughout his short life. The largest number of his compositions are songs for solo voice and piano (roughly 630). Schubert also composed a considerable number of secular works for two or more voices, namely part songs, choruses and cantatas. He completed eight orchestral overtures and seven complete symphonies, in addition to fragments of six others. While he composed no concertos, he did write three concertante works for violin and orchestra. Schubert wrote a large body of music for solo piano, including eleven incontrovertibly completed sonatas and at least eleven more in varying states of completion, numerous miscellaneous works and many short dances, in addition to producing a large set of works for piano four hands. He also wrote over fifty chamber works, including some fragmentary works. Schubert's sacred output includes seven masses, one oratorio and one requiem, among other mass movements and numerous smaller compositions. He completed only eleven of his twenty stage works. "Frühlingsglaube" (Faith In Spring) D.686b Op. 20 No. 2 is regarded as one of Schubert’s truly great works. This is Schubert’s only song to set to music the poetry of Johann Ludwig Uhland. In this music we experience optimism tempered by a sense of the reality of impending tragedy. Schubert himself was already sick by the time of this song’s composition in 1822. The poetry tells us of the beauty of spring’s blooming, but portends also of inevitable change whereby spring's beauty and vibrance must yield to winter and death. The tonality of the song wanders in and out of major and minor, seeming to hint at the inner back and forth emotions Schubert must have been feeling, and indeed which all of us feel at different times in our lives. There is danger in this bittersweet mixture of emotions. Like all songs where we sense the narrator has suffered a great deal, Frühlingsglaube teeters precariously on the borders of sentimentality and, if performers are determined to milk it for all its possibilities of pathetic expression, it can easily take on the characteristics of a lachrymose Victorian ballad. The secret of a truly moving performance lies in the tempo. Schubert’s marking ‘Ziemlich langsam’ means ‘rather slow’, and it is the interpretation of the ‘rather’ which is the nub. The time signature is 2/4 and it is the crotchet, not the quaver, which is the main beat. Performers who favour four slow quavers in the bar rather than the two crotchets may seem to gain something in terms of emotional import, but the ‘linden Lüfte’ which ‘säuseln und weben’ lose their fragrant lightness, and the song becomes leaden and sad rather than a floating vision of hope eternal.. Source: Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Schubert) Although originally composed for Voice and Piano, I created this Interpretation of "Frühlingsglaube" (Faith In Spring D.686b Op. 20 No. 2) for Flute & Strings (2 Violins, Viola & Cello). Sheet central : | Frühlingsglaube (3 sheet music) | | |||
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