Welcome to the Cybertiad
A Schubertiad on the Internet.
Here everyone can share their thoughts about Schubert, recommend different recordings or add some own MIDI-files. Or just do something fun - just like in the original Schubertiads.
Recommended work:
Jenö Jandó
Moment Musicaux
Three Piano Pieces D. 946
Naxos 1989
I especially like the Andantino piece. And of course the Moment No.4 is very special - it is a mixture of Bach and Schumann!
But one of the visitors seems to like the Moment No. 3 and Moment No. 6 the most. You?!?
Every recording with András Schiff is fantastic! Ave Maria is still going strong Schubert! Great work!
I like your simple pieces the most.
I think his first, second and 9th symphony are at least as good as the more famous 5th and 8th symphony. I love his Mass in G, but also his Impromtus I like his Standchen very much. But also his "Rosamunde" and his unfinished symphony are great. By the way, the "Unfinished" can be heard in the intro to the Smurfs! /Cindy
I love Schubert, because his music is so near to me, so "human". Some
more favourite composers are Bach (I am an organist, too), Brahms,
Schumann and Mendelssohn. But with Schubert's music, I'm in an other, a better world.
Beethoven remains #1 for me. Had the short-lived Mozart and Chopin attained normal life spans, they would not have reached Beethoven's stature, even if showbiz made better movies of them. Schubert, on the other hand, deserves belief in the unbelievable. Given the magnitude of his growth rate, he may indeed have surpassed Beethoven.
Many of Schubert's finest works remain obscure, perhaps in part because of their late discovery. They rarely got the intriguing "nicknames" ("Moonlight" "Eroica", etc.) which for better or worse are a key to the popular imagination. Perhaps my favorite Schubert is a piano piece with the catchy name of "Impromptu #1 in F minor, D935, Op142". I will not try to nickname it, but when I hear it while driving I have to pull off the road, close my eyes and imagine my very own incandescent little trip to Middle Earth and back.
But in the lat 1960s the next
page of the 3rd movement scherzo in full score was discovered taking it to
bar 20. The following attached pages were blank. The implication being
that he detached the pages himself and gave the first 2 movements to
Huttenbrenner and then never went back to the score. So we have 20 bars of
score followed by several blank pages. This and the piano sketches of the
scherzo and half of the trio, which also ends in blank pages with the detail
getting thinner can be found in Chusid's book on the 8th revised version.
In Schubert's bibliography you write:
'In Vienna, he met Antonio Salieri who was very impressed by him: "He must
be taught by God himself", he said.'
On the website http://www.composers.net/database/s/Schubert.html however it
is stated:
'Then, when Ruczizka confided to Salieri that Schubert "seems to have been
taught by God himself, the lad knows everything," Salieri decided to take
the boy under his own wing.'
So it seems to me that one of you both must be wrong!
I don't know who! /Kristofer
My thought on why Schubert never completed the Symphony is this: His two first movements came out very strong. He was unable to find a good enough third and fourth movement so he just left it incomplete.
And here we have some thoughts from Argentina!
Mili likes the Ave Maria very much. He is not the only one.
Luchi prefers "Der Erlkönig".
Mechita likes "the wintertrip" "Die Winterreise".
But Mary is, just like the webmaster, very fond of the unfinished symphony.
Schubert's "Die Forelle" is still swimming!
These are the special swedish thoughts,
Jag tycker speciellt mycket om Schubert för de fantastiska "Forelle variationerna". Tycker någon annan likadant?
Det bästa med Schubert är ju "Tomtarnas vaktparad" som man hör varje julafton.
Please feel free to mail your own thoughts!
Especially thoughts about how people in South America think about Schubert are welcome!
Resources: Naxos booklet CD 8.550476, CD 8.550555, CD 8.550259,
Decca booklet CD 430 425-2 and Linz booklet CD 48087
Marcheron, Annamaria, and others: De stora kompositörerna. Kungälv 1991
Please feel free to contact if any questions or suggestions kristofer
With reservations for any faults or errors in the texts.