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Franz Schubert (1797- 1828) Like Beethoven, thought to bridge the Classical and Romantic Composed: •Symphonies •Sonatas (especially piano and violin) •String Quartets •Other chamber music

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Page 1: UNIT IV - Class 23

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Like Beethoven, thought to bridge the Classical and Romantic

Composed:

•Symphonies

•Sonatas (especially piano and violin)

•String Quartets

•Other chamber music

•Songs and Song Cycles

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The German Art Song (Lieder)Nineteenth-century genre for singer and piano

Features close association of music and text

Word painting

Supportive role of accompaniment (underscoring emotion of the poetry)

Wide technical and expressive range (from simple and folk-like to highly complex)

Coincides with renaissance of German lyric verse

Genre is often thought to begin in 1814 with Schubert’s

composition of Gretchen am Spinnrade

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Gretchen am Spinnrade (Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel)

Text from Goethe’s Faust

Meine Ruh ist hin,Mein Herz ist schwer,Ich finde sie nimmerUnd nimmermehr….

(My peace is gone,My heart is heavy,I will find it neverand never more….)