Liszt referred to Schubert ‘the most poetical musician that ever was.’ Schumann was equally complimentary, saying that ‘Schubert’s pencil was dipped in moonbeams and in the flame of the sun.’ Liszt, Schumann, Brahms and Mendelssohn all championed his works. Schubert is today one of the world’s most frequently performed composers, and acknowledged as an all-time classical great and recognition of his genius increased significantly in the decades following his death. Die Winterreise is a world unto itself of melodic beauty, spiritual torment, the bleakness of lost love, and the coldness of the hand of death’ writes Gregg Whiteside. ‘His 615 songs represent a flow of unaffected melody, and dark undercurrents of the soul, without compare in the history of music. Music lovers feel that perhaps the most beautiful piece of chamber music in C major String Quintet ever composed was Schubert’s and that he was the first, and the greatest, songwriter in history. And at 22, Schubert had written The Trout.Īt an age when Beethoven had produced merely excellent classical style string quartets, Schubert produced his C major String Quintet. And at 18 wrote more than 20,000 bars of music, including nine church works, a symphony, and some 150 songs – including eight in one day in October 1815. At 17, he wrote his first masterpiece – a setting of Goethe’s Gretchen am Spinnrade (Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel) making the piano part an integral element of the song. Unquestionably, Schubert can be regarded as the last of the great Classical composers.
Among his notable works are Symphony No.9.in C Major (The Great), Symphony in B Minor (Unfinished), masses and piano works. 9 in C major, the three last piano sonatas, the opera Fierrabras, the incidental music to the play Rosamunde, the song cycles, Die schone Mullerin and Winterreise.Īs a prolific composer, Franz Schubert bridged the worlds of Classical and Romantic music, noted for the melody and harmony in his songs (lieder) and chamber music. 8 in B minor(Unfinished Symphony), the ‘Great’ Symphony No. His major works include the Piano Quintet in A Major (Trout Quintet), the Symphony No. And all of this was achieved in a very short time: Schubert died at 31. Born in 1797 near Vienna, Schubert’s phenomenal outpouring included operas and symphonies over 600 songs overtures and masses string quartets, quintets and an octet 20 piano sonatas and some 50 choral works. A collection of Schubert’s songs was placed in his hands, and after examining them, Beethoven said: ‘Truly, Schubert possesses the divine fire.’įranz Schubert was compared with the greatest in every musical genre-string quartets with Haydn and Mozart, and symphonies with Beethoven. During Beethoven’s dying moments, a number of visitors were around him and, of Schubert, he feebly indicated with his hands, ‘Franz has my soul’.
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