unit iv - class 23
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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
•Songs and Song Cycles
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
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….)