![]() This talk will focus on the two works that took shape that summer amid the mountains, forests and lakes of Upper Austria: the euphoric D major Piano Sonata, D850, and the resplendent, life-affirming ‘Great’ C major Symphony. But there were long periods of remission, most gloriously during the summer of 1825, when Schubert embarked with the faithful Vogl on a Sommerreise that capped even his holiday of 1819. Eighteen Twenty-Five (10th February 2022)Īfter he contracted syphilis in the winter of 1822-23, Schubert’s health was often precarious. The symphony’s beauty and disturbing power, and its incomplete state, remain one of music’s most tantalising mysteries – to be pondered in Richard’s talk. This was a period of some magnificent songs, including the macabre ballad ‘Der Zwerg’, plus the revolutionary ‘Wanderer’ Fantasy – Schubert’s most virtuosic piano work – and the symphonic torso prosaically dubbed ‘the Unfinished’. Supported by Vogl, he was hopeful of success in the opera house. Eighteen Twenty-Two (3rd February 2022)įor Schubert 1822 was a year of expanding horizons and growing artistic ambition. This talk will celebrate the songs of this year, including the majestic setting of Goethe’s ‘Prometheus’, plus two happy works written partly on a summer holiday with Vogl: the ever-fresh ‘Trout’ Quintet’, and the ‘little’ A major Piano Sonata, D664. With the baritone Johann Michael Vogl he formed the world’s first great Lieder duo. Schubert’s fame as a composer of songs and piano works was growing fast by 1819. 4, Schubert seems to grapple with the daunting example of Beethoven, while in the delectable Fifth Symphony he pays homage to his beloved Mozart. This first talk will focus on songs and the two contrasting symphonies. Working as a reluctant teacher in his father’s school, the nineteen-year-old Schubert somehow found time to compose a phenomenal quantity of music, including masses, string quartets, two symphonies and over 100 songs, many among his best-loved. They are available for viewing for eight weeks after the last episode is streamed (21 April 2022). They take place every Thursday from 20 January to 24 February at 4.30pm (GMT) and, including Q&A, will probably last just under an hour. Taking six key years in Schubert’s life, Richard Wigmore’s zoom talks will interleave biography with a discussion of individual works, from songs and symphonies of 1816 to the visionary string quintet from his final months. Yet by the time of his premature death at the age of 31 he had composed prolifically in all the major genres bar oratorio and concerto. ![]() Paradoxically, Schubert is at once the most friendly of the great composers, and the one who expresses most piercingly a Romantic sense of separation and ‘otherness’ a creator of some of the world’s most lovable melodies who is now rightly revered for his daring approach to harmony.ĭuring his short, hectic life, spent almost entirely in Vienna, Schubert was known overwhelmingly for his songs, partsongs and piano miniatures. No music seems to speak to us more directly or more touchingly. Franz Schubert: Six Years in Life – six online talks by Richard Wigmoreįor Liszt, Franz Schubert was ‘the most poetic of composers’. ![]()
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