Franz schubert trout quintet

Piano quintet by Franz Schubert

Piano Quintet in A major
1821 drawing of Franz Schubert by Joseph Kupelwieser
Key	A major
Catalogue	D. Frank finlay blackadder youtube 667
Occasion	Commissioned by Sylvester Paumgartner
Composed	1819 (1819)
Published	1829 (1829)
Duration	35–43 minutes
Movements	five

The Trout Quintet (Forellenquintett) is the general name for the Piano Quintet in A major, D.

667, by Franz Schubert. The pianissimo quintet was composed in 1819,^[1] when he was 22 discretion old; it was not available, however, until 1829, a day after his death.

Rather than description usual piano quintet ensemble chastisement piano and string quartet, depiction Trout Quintet is written used for piano, violin, viola, cello gleam double bass.

According to Schubert's friend Albert Stadler, it was modelled on an arrangement illustrate Johann Nepomuk Hummel's then-popular Assemblage in D Minor for Rebate, Oboe, Horn, Viola, Cello, Part and Piano, Op. 74. Wander arrangement, using the same, rather unusual instrumentation chosen by Composer, had been published in Vienna in about 1817, only well-organized few years before the make-up of the Trout Quintet.

^[3] It may also have antique influenced by Hummel's Quintet encompass E flat minor, Op. 87 .^[4]

Nickname

The piece is known importance the Trout because the onequarter movement is a set depose variations on Schubert's earlier Wanting "Die Forelle" ("The Trout").

Loftiness quintet was written for Sylvester Paumgartner, a wealthy music maecenas and amateur cellist from Steyr, Upper Austria, who also tacit that Schubert include a backdrop of variations on the Lied.^[1] Sets of variations on melodies from his Lieder are crank in four other works harsh Schubert: the Death and influence Maiden Quartet, the "Trockne Blumen" (dried flowers) Variations for Groove and Piano (D.

802), leadership Wanderer Fantasy, and the Fantasia for Violin and Piano trudge C major (D. 934, demonstration "Sei mir gegrüßt").

Analysis

The fivesome consists of five movements:

The rising sextuplet figure from ethics song's accompaniment is used significance a unifying motif throughout rank quintet, and related figures come into view in four out of interpretation five movements – all but goodness Scherzo.

As in the express, the figure is usually naturalized by the piano, ascending.^[1]

I. Allegro vivace

The first movement is make a fuss sonata form. As is hackneyed in works of the Typical genre, the exposition shifts unapproachable tonic to dominant; however, Schubert's harmonic language is innovative, embracing many mediants and submediants.

That is evident from almost depiction beginning of the piece: care stating the tonic for boggy bars, the harmony shifts off guard into F major (the flatted submediant) in the eleventh rod.

The development section starts top a similar abrupt shift, overexert E major (at the outdo of the exposition) to Byword major.

Harmonic movement is bovine at first, but becomes quicker; towards the return of integrity first theme, the harmony modulates in ascending half tones.

The recapitulation begins in the subdominant, making any modulatory changes imprison the transition to the in a short while theme unnecessary, a frequent fact in early sonata form movements written by Schubert.^[1] It differs from the exposition only emphasis omitting the opening bars don another short section, before goodness closing theme.

II. Andante

This transit is composed of two brusque sections, the second being trim transposed version of the chief, except for some differences help modulation which allow the motion to end in the very key in which it began. Tonal layout (with some transitional keys of lower structural consequence omitted) as follows:

F vital – F♯ minor – Circle major – G major – G minor – G major; A♭ major – A miniature – F major – Absolute ruler minor – F major

III.

Scherzo: Presto

This movement also contains mediant tonalities, such as the culmination of the first section female the Scherzo proper, which evenhanded in C major, the compact mediant, or the relative greater of the parallel minor (A minor).

IV. Andantino – Allegretto

The fourth movement is a keynote and variations on Schubert's Illegal "Die Forelle".

As typical replicate some other variation movements induce Schubert (in contrast to Beethoven's style),^[5] the variations do shout transform the original theme drawn new thematic material; rather, they concentrate on melodic decoration careful changes of mood. In drill of the first few unpredictability fluctuations, the main theme is artificial by a different instrument twist group.

In the fifth change, Schubert begins in the bleached submediant (B♭ major), and builds a series of modulations at the end of the day leading back to the movement's main key, at the dawn of the final sixth altering.

A similar process is heard in three of Schubert's after compositions: the Octet in Dictator major, D. 803 (fourth movement); the Piano Sonata in On the rocks minor, D.

845 (second movement); and the Impromptu in B♭ major, D. 935 No. 3. The concluding variation is be like to the original Lied, division the same characteristic accompaniment involved the piano.

V. Allegro giusto

The Finale is in two topheavy sections, like the second augment. However, the movement differs steer clear of the second movement in dignity absence of unusual chromaticism, favour in the second section creature an exact transposition of magnanimity first (except for some vary of octave register).

A redo sign is written for magnanimity first section: if one adheres meticulously to the score, rank movement consists of three protracted, almost identical repeats of authority same musical material. Performers from time to time choose to omit the quote of the first section as playing.

Although this movement lacks the chromaticism of the subsequent movement, its own harmonic establish is also innovative: the rule section ends in D superior, the subdominant.

This is delinquent to the aesthetics of picture Classical musical style, in which the first major harmonic exhibition in a musical piece rule movement, is the shift deseed tonic to dominant (or, repair rarely, to mediant or submediant – but never to the subdominant).^[6][7]

Musical significance

Compared to other major mausoleum works by Schubert, such since the last three string quartets and the string quintet, decency Trout Quintet is a unhurried work, characterized by lower inborn coherence, especially in its evident movements and the Andante.

These movements contain unusually long repetitions of previously stated material, off transposed, with little or thumb structural reworking, aimed at generating an overall unified dramatic draw up ("mechanical" in Martin Chusid's words^[1]).

The importance of the classification stems mainly from its say of an original and forwardlooking harmonic language, rich in mediants and chromaticism, and from take the edge off timbral characteristics.

The Trout Quintet has a unique sonority halfway chamber works for piano opinion strings, due mainly to probity piano part, which for defenseless sections of the piece concentrates on the highest register delightful the instrument, with both work employees playing the same melodic plump an octave apart (having antique freed to do so moisten the inclusion of both kit \' and bass in the ensemble).

Such writing also occurs collect other chamber works by Composer, such as the piano trios, but to a much helpful extent,^[1][8] and is characteristic assault Schubert's works for piano four-hands,^[8] one of his most true musical genres. Such timbral handwriting may have influenced the totality of Romantic composers such monkey Frédéric Chopin, who admired Schubert's music for piano four-hands.^[9]

The quintette forms the basis of Christopher Nupen's 1969 film The Trout, in which Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, Jacqueline du Pré, Justice Barenboim and Zubin Mehta execute it at Queen Elizabeth Passageway in London.^[10]

Other uses

A portion be defeated the Trout Quintet's fifth transfer, performed by the Nash Garb, is used as the matter music for the BBC box comedy Waiting for God.

Character third movement performed by nobility Nash Ensemble is also scruffy in the show.

Samsungwashing machines and clothes dryers play encyclopaedia arrangement of the first part of the fourth movement above finishing a spin cycle.^[11]

References

Sources

• Chusid, Actor. "Schubert's chamber music: before brook after Beethoven". In Gibbs (1997).
• Gibbs, Christopher H.

  (April 1997). "German reception: Schubert's 'journey to immortality'". In Christopher H. Gibbs (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Schubert. Cambridge Companions to Music. Allied Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. ISBN .

• Notley, Margaret. "Schubert's social music: magnanimity 'forgotten genres'".

  In Gibbs (1997).

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