Franz Schubert
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- Subject according curriculum
- Musical analysis
- Teachers
- Prof. Volkhardt Preuss
- Scope
- Friday, 9.00-10.30
- Room
- BP 11
- Duration
- 1.5 Semesterwochenstunden
- Description
"There is no funny music". This is what Schubert is said to have replied when he was approached as the composer of the "merry Ländler". His music touches on the basic effects of Romanticism - strangeness, farewell and longing. We must be aware that we cannot simply transfer our present-day experiences of these feelings to the people of the late Biedermeier period. This is where our search for traces of the eye and ear of that time begins. - By his own admission, Schubert dreamed his music. So something enters the music that we can call "delusional", which expresses itself through a kind of statefulness that is curved in on itself and ultimately leads to torpor, as in the
2nd movement of the String Quintet in C major or in the 1st and 2nd movements of the late
movement of the late B flat major Piano Sonata. Is this torpor threatening or redemptive - that is the question. We will see how dance, and above all song, finds its way into his instrumental works and into the late sonatas and string quartets, the octet and the symphonies. There, however, it is decomposed, it dissolves before our ears, just as major and minor merge and dissolve. The comparison with Beethoven and Mahler is obvious. We will attempt this by comparing the introduction to the "Dry Flowers" Variations with the slow introductions of Beethoven's 4th Symphony and Mahler's 1st Symphony with the scherzo of the D minor quartet. We will explore the reception in the 20th century through two films: "Fremd bin ich eingezogen" by Titus Leber and "Winterreise" by Hans Steinbichler.
In addition, we will examine how Schnebel uses Schubert's late G major piano sonata in his orchestral piece "Tradition".- Credits
- 2 Creditpoints
- Modules
- Musiktheoretisch-/wissenschaftliches Modul 1, Musiktheoretisch-/wissenschaftliches Modul 2, Musiktheoretisches/Musikwissenschaftliches Wahlmodul Instrumental, Wahlmodul freie Wahl (alle Studiengänge)