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Wiegenlied 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, 28 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. "Wiegenlied: Schlafe, schlafe, holder süßer Knabe" (Lullaby: Sleep, sleep, sweet, sweet boy) D.498 Op. 98 No. 2 is a lullaby composed in November 1816. The song is also known as "Mille cherubini in coro" after an Italian language arrangement for voice and orchestra by Alois Melichar. This beautiful little melody seems the most quintessential, the most fragile, the most heartfelt Schubert, and yet on paper it is hardly more than an oscillation between tonic and dominant. Richard Strauss borrowed it to quote in Ariadne auf Naxos, and who can blame him; when Schubert's music is on this plane it has an inevitability and economy which every single composer since must have envied. Apart from the fact that the composer thought that Claudius was the poet, although it now seems that he was not, there is one perplexing factor. This is the mystery of the middle verse, which is either a Romantic-poetic way of describing a cradle as a sweet grave (peaceful and comfortable), or something which actüally relates to a child's death. John Reed believes that Schubert was thinking mainly of the first verse when he wrote his music: 'The shadow of the grave, which obtrudes here as in so many early Romantic pieces on this subject, finds no place in Schubert's music'. Infant mortality was an everyday occurrence at this time; indeed only a few months after the supposed date of this song's composition (for it is not dated in the composer's hand, only entered as November 1816 in the Witticzek-Spaun collection), the composer's little half brother Theodor Kajetan Anton, only a few months old, died. Is it possible that this song dates from a short time later and is related to this family bereavement? If not, it is still hauntingly prophetic. I hear in this song not the comfortable baby-sitting of happy parenthood, but music of the greatest consolation and tenderness, a feeling of almost holy gratitude for life, however short. And then there is his use of the major key: a heart-breaking braveness and lack of self-pity combined with that unobtrusive melancholy that only Schubert can handle poignantly and unmawkishly. Source: Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiegenlied,_D_498_(Schub ert)) Although originally composed for Voice and Piano, I created this Interpretation of "Wiegenlied: Schlafe, schlafe, holder süßer Knabe" (Lullaby: Sleep, sleep, sweet, sweet boy D.498 Op. 98 No. 2) for Flute & Strings (2 Violins, Viola & Cello). Sheet central : | Wiegenlied (4 sheet music) | | |||
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