Schubert: Ave Maria for Piano Quartet
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SKU: A0.548705
Composed by Franz Schubert. Arranged by James M. Guthrie, ASCAP. Christmas,Standards. 11 pages. Jmsgu3 #3411371. Published by jmsgu3 (A0.548705).A Piano Quartet Christmas/Easter classic. Schubert seems to have composed this piece as a song-setting. This is because he wanted to portray a poignant emotional event from a poem. The poem was Walter Scott's The Lady of the Lake.
Schubert
Franz Schubert (1797–1828) was, in fact, a famous Austrian composer. Moreover, he composed during the late Classical and early Romantic periods. Schubert was comparatively prolific. He wrote over 600 secular vocal works, seven symphonies, and a massive amount of piano and chamber music. Critics agree that his most famous works include his Piano Quintet in A central, D. 667 (also known as the Trout Quintet), the Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D. 759 (Unfinished Symphony), the last sonatas for piano (D. 958–960), and the song cycles Die schöne Müllerin (D. 795) and Winterreise (D. 911).
Education
Schubert was furthermore a musical child prodigy. He studied violin with his father and piano with his older brother. In addition, when Schubert was eleven, he looked at Stadtkonvikt school, where he became familiar with the orchestral music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. In due time, he left school and returned home, where he studied to become an educator; nevertheless, he continued studying composition with Antonio Salieri.
Performance
Eventually, Schubert was admitted to the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde as a performer. This appointment straightaway established his name in Vienna as a composer and pianist. Finally, he gave his only composition recital in 1828. He died suddenly a few months later, probably due to typhoid fever.
Legacy
Schubert's music was, by and large, underappreciated while he was alive. There were, all in all, only a few enthusiasts in Vienna. After he died, however, interest in his work increased. Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms, and other famous composers in due time discovered his compositions. Nowadays, historians rank Schubert expressly among the greatest composers of the era, and his music is generally trendy.
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