Franz Schubert - String Quintet (1828)
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Franz Peter Schubert (31 January 1797 – 19 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short lifetime, Schubert left behind a vast oeuvre, including 600 secular vocal works (mainly Lieder), seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music and a large body of piano and chamber music. The Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667 (Trout Quintet), the Symphony No. 8, D. 759 (Unfinished Symphony), the three last piano sonatas, D. 958-960, and his song cycles Die schöne Müllerin and Winterreise are some of his most important works.
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String Quintet in C major, D. 956, Opus 163 posth.
1. Allegro ma non troppo (0:00)
2. Adagio (19:45)
3. Scherzo. Presto — Trio. Andante sostenuto (34:27)
4. Allegretto — Più allegro (45:31)
Wiener Streichsextett: Erich Hobarth, Peter Matzka (violin); Thomas Riebl (viola); Rudolf Leopold, Susanne Ehn (cello)
Recorded: 27-29 Sept., 1994; Grosser Saal, Salzburg Mozarteum
EMI
Description by James Liu [-]
Benjamin Britten once suggested that "the richest and most productive eighteen months in music history" were "the period in which Franz Schubert wrote Winterreise, the C major symphony, his last three piano sonatas, the C Major String Quintet, as well as a dozen other glorious pieces." The String Quintet, D. 956 is certainly one of the pinnacles of the chamber music canon, and is often cited as a significant example of the composer's legacy.
Certainly in the period between the death of his idol, Beethoven, and his own passing, the 31-year-old Schubert achieved a breakthrough in large-scale forms the likes of which has not been seen since. But the Quintet strikes one more as young man's music than as a summary statement; there is a youthful ambition that is not unlike that of Beethoven's first string quartets.
For his scoring, Schubert went against the model of Mozart and Beethoven, who each added a second viola to the conventional string quartet for their quintets; Boccherini, Dittersdorf and Onslow amongst some others created the precedent of two cellos. Schubert uses the second cello to create dense and varied textures: sometimes the cello serves as a second bass instrument under a full quartet, sometimes it's a bass-rich quartet sans violin, and sometimes there is a rich interplay between instrumental sections.
The first two movements have an expansive and deliberate buildup that seems to anticipate the sprawling structures of Anton Bruckner. But in most ways the piece remains quite conventional; it retains the standard four-movement format, and has an energetic scherzo (though a more wistful trio) and a zestful, almost Hungarian finale. Despite the bleak spaces of the slow movement, these movements suggest a youth's first steps into maturity, and the work as a whole serves as a tantalizing reminder of what might have been, had Schubert been granted more time to create and innovate.
From IMSLP:
First public performance: 17 Nov 1850 in the kleine Musikvereinsaal Vienna by the Joseph Hellmesberger Sr. Quartet. Joseph Hellmesberger Sr. (1st violin), Matthias Durst (2nd violin) Carl Heissler (viola), Carl Schlesinger (cello) and Josef Stransky 2nd cello.
The Quintet was to be Schubert’s last completed chamber work. In mid-October of 1828 – just a few weeks after having completed the Quintet – Schubert’s appetite disappeared. Weakened by tertiary syphilis and the toxic, mercury-based medications he was taking for the syphilis, Schubert took to his bed with a high, persistent fever, almost certainly caused by a bacterial typhoid infection. Schubert died at three o’clock in the afternoon on November 19, 1828. The String Quintet in C Major – scored for two violins, a viola, and two ‘cellos – is widely believed to be among the handful of greatest chamber works ever composed.
Date of publication- 1853 according to Deutsch ("Anfang 1853, Gestochen noch vor dem Ausscheiden Diabellis aus dem Verlag 1851".)
Composition completed - 1828 September or October. It is not certain, that it was completed before the B-flat piano sonata. It was his last completed (multi-instrument) chamber work.
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String Quintet in C major, D. 956, Opus 163 posth.
1. Allegro ma non troppo (0:00)
2. Adagio (19:45)
3. Scherzo. Presto — Trio. Andante sostenuto (34:27)
4. Allegretto — Più allegro (45:31)
Wiener Streichsextett: Erich Hobarth, Peter Matzka (violin); Thomas Riebl (viola); Rudolf Leopold, Susanne Ehn (cello)
Recorded: 27-29 Sept., 1994; Grosser Saal, Salzburg Mozarteum
EMI
Description by James Liu [-]
Benjamin Britten once suggested that "the richest and most productive eighteen months in music history" were "the period in which Franz Schubert wrote Winterreise, the C major symphony, his last three piano sonatas, the C Major String Quintet, as well as a dozen other glorious pieces." The String Quintet, D. 956 is certainly one of the pinnacles of the chamber music canon, and is often cited as a significant example of the composer's legacy.
Certainly in the period between the death of his idol, Beethoven, and his own passing, the 31-year-old Schubert achieved a breakthrough in large-scale forms the likes of which has not been seen since. But the Quintet strikes one more as young man's music than as a summary statement; there is a youthful ambition that is not unlike that of Beethoven's first string quartets.
For his scoring, Schubert went against the model of Mozart and Beethoven, who each added a second viola to the conventional string quartet for their quintets; Boccherini, Dittersdorf and Onslow amongst some others created the precedent of two cellos. Schubert uses the second cello to create dense and varied textures: sometimes the cello serves as a second bass instrument under a full quartet, sometimes it's a bass-rich quartet sans violin, and sometimes there is a rich interplay between instrumental sections.
The first two movements have an expansive and deliberate buildup that seems to anticipate the sprawling structures of Anton Bruckner. But in most ways the piece remains quite conventional; it retains the standard four-movement format, and has an energetic scherzo (though a more wistful trio) and a zestful, almost Hungarian finale. Despite the bleak spaces of the slow movement, these movements suggest a youth's first steps into maturity, and the work as a whole serves as a tantalizing reminder of what might have been, had Schubert been granted more time to create and innovate.
From IMSLP:
First public performance: 17 Nov 1850 in the kleine Musikvereinsaal Vienna by the Joseph Hellmesberger Sr. Quartet. Joseph Hellmesberger Sr. (1st violin), Matthias Durst (2nd violin) Carl Heissler (viola), Carl Schlesinger (cello) and Josef Stransky 2nd cello.
The Quintet was to be Schubert’s last completed chamber work. In mid-October of 1828 – just a few weeks after having completed the Quintet – Schubert’s appetite disappeared. Weakened by tertiary syphilis and the toxic, mercury-based medications he was taking for the syphilis, Schubert took to his bed with a high, persistent fever, almost certainly caused by a bacterial typhoid infection. Schubert died at three o’clock in the afternoon on November 19, 1828. The String Quintet in C Major – scored for two violins, a viola, and two ‘cellos – is widely believed to be among the handful of greatest chamber works ever composed.
Date of publication- 1853 according to Deutsch ("Anfang 1853, Gestochen noch vor dem Ausscheiden Diabellis aus dem Verlag 1851".)
Composition completed - 1828 September or October. It is not certain, that it was completed before the B-flat piano sonata. It was his last completed (multi-instrument) chamber work.
