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On "Exploring the Music with Bill McLaughlin" this week, they are talking about Schubert's string quartets.
He wrote 15 that still survive during his life time. he wrote a sting quintet (D956) for two each violins and cellos and one viola. He also wrote a piano quintet in A Major called "Trout" because it has themes from a song of the same name. I have CDs of the later two works. The song "Trout" or Die Forelle was based on a poem by German poet Christian Shubart (no relation). Forelle is German for trout. Some of Schubert's works have influences of Beethoven, J.S. Bach and Mozart. The final quartets of Schubert are his most popular. The 15th (D887) is described as "mysterious" by Timothy Judd of The Listeners Club thelistenersclub.com. Bruckner's Seventh symphony written roughly 60 years later has some echoes of this quartet. The 15th quartet was written in 10 days in 1826 but was not published until 1851. It was published posthumously as were some of the other pieces by Schubert. It moves in to strange new territory. Another popular quartet is the 14th Quartet (D887) called "Death and the Maiden". it is called that because the second movement has themes from a song of the same name also by Schubert (D531). it was wrttten in 1824 when Schubert's health began to take a turn for the worse and he realized that he would not get better. Schubert lived another four years and died at the age of only 31. It was first played in 1826 and was published in 1831. The song was based on a poem by German poet Matthias Claudius (1740-1815). The 13th called Rosamunde (D804) also dates from 1824. "Rosamunde" was a play in which Schubert wrote the incidental music for (D797), This is an orchestral score. It also dates from 1824. At that time Schubert switched his emphasis from song to orchestral and chamber music.
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