![]() ![]() As well as composing string quartets, his first piano pieces and songs, Schubert also wrote for the college orchestra. ![]() Among his teachers there was Antonio Salieri, the éminence grise of Viennese music at the beginning of the 19th century who gave the boy private composition lessons. He began learning the violin aged eight, played the viola in his family’s string quartet, and began composing pieces for the group at the age of 11 he won a choral scholarship to the Imperial College. He rarely travelled far outside the city of Vienna, where he was born the 12th child of a schoolmaster in the Lichtental district. Photograph: Getty Imagesįew composers led such uneventful lives as Schubert apparently did. Lebenssturme means “storm of life.” Although Schubert did not title this piece (his publisher Antonio Diabelli did), this descriptive title applies to Schubert’s short but dramatic life.A slice of Viennese life … a 19th century illustration of Schubert at the piano. ![]() Schubert wrote two pieces, Fugue in E minor, D952, and Lebenssturme, during the last year of his life. 823 (Christoph Eschenbach, piano Justus Frantz, piano) It has a military feel and is as brilliant as the first movement.įranz Schubert: Divertissement sur des motifs originaux francais, Op. The last movement is a rondo with a finale. The sorrowful second movement is in theme and variation form and is perhaps one of Schubert’s music’s most beautiful movements for four hands. It is a brilliant march set in a sonata form. While the three movements were first published separately, Schubert completed the first movement in the summer of 1825. 823, consists of three movements, and they were composed in 18. The last set, Divertissement on a French motif D. Schubert wrote two sets of divertissements for four hands. 812, “Grand Duo” (Radu Lupu, piano Daniel Barenboim, piano)ĭivertissement is a style of music written to amuse audiences and musicians. Schumann described the piece as a “symphony arranged for the piano.”įranz Schubert: Sonata for Piano 4 Hands in C Major, Op. 812, remains one of the most famous pieces for piano four-hands. Schubert wrote these while staying in Court Esterházy’s house. Prior to this, Schubert only wrote two other sonatas and one sonatina for piano four hands, but none of them are as extensive as this work. 812 (1824), was Schubert’s most expansive piano music for four hands. 602 (Jenő Jandó, piano Zsuzsa Kollár, piano) 733, both composed in 1818.įranz Schubert: 3 Marches heroiques, Op. Schubert wrote over ten sets of marches for four hands demonstrating style hongrois and employing many Hungarian folk idioms, especially the 3 Marches Heroiques, D. During his stay in Hungary, he became interested in Hungarian folk idioms and styles. The majority of Schubert’s works were written in connection with his stay at the Count Esterházy’s house at Zseliz, Hungary, in 18, where he gave piano and singing lessons to two young Countesses, Caroline, and Marie. 940, this piece shows the influences of Beethoven and previews Schubert’s later unique styles of writing:įranz Schubert: Fantasie in G Major, D. Although this work is not as famous as Fantasy in F minor, D. ![]() He composed this work when he was only 13 years old probably as a composition assignment. While the first fantasy, Fantasie in G major, D.1 (1810, was his earliest known work among all genres of his entire catalog. Schubert’s catalog of works for piano four hands begins and ends with fantasies. ![]()
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