Franz Schubert - String Quartet No.13, D.804, op. 29 "Rosamunde" (1824)
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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 Quartet in A minor, D.804 "Rosamunde" (Spring 1824)
Dedication: Ignaz Schuppanzigh (1776-1830), member of the imperial court orchestra
1. Allegro ma non troppo (0:00)
2. Andante (14:42)
3. Menuetto. Allegretto - Trio (22:06)
4. Allegro moderato (29:56)
HUGO WOLF QUARTETT
Sebastian Gürtler, violin I
Régis Bringolf, violin II
Subin Lee, viola
Florian Berner, cello
On March 31, 1824 Schubert wrote to his friend, Leopold Kupelwieser:
“Of songs I have not written many new ones, but I have tried my hand at several instrumental works, for I wrote two Quartets for violins, viola and violoncello and an Octet, and I want to write another quartet, in fact I intend to pave my way towards grand symphony in that manner…”
The three quartets to which Schubert referred were the A minor, D. 804 (Rosamunde), performed here, the D minor, D. 810 (Death & the Maiden), and the yet-to-be-composed G major, D. 887, written down in just 10 days in June, 1826. The A minor Quartet was, alone of all three published, in September, 1824 as Op. 29, no. 1, dedicated to Schuppanzigh, its first performance having taken place just two weeks prior (March 14) as part of a program that also included Beethoven’s popular Septet, Op. 20. As Moritz von Schwind wrote concerning this première:
“Schubert’s Quartet was performed, rather slowly in his opinion, but clearly and affectionately. Overall it is very smooth, but so in such a way that the tune stays in one’s head, as with songs, full of feeling and expression.”
The opening movement of the A minor Quartet is imbued with the same brooding intensity that defines the Quartettsatz - albeit at a slower tempo, and no doubt for very different reasons. The first theme consists of the simplest possible means; a sad tune beginning with a descending A minor arpeggio over a “spinning wheel’ accompaniment, of the kind that Schubert wrote in his early Goethe song Gretchen am Spinnrade. All this
occurs above a disturbing tremolando bass. The despairing reference by Schubert to his own popular early song is probably no coincidence, for it was at exactly this time that he discovered that his health, undermined since 1823 by his contraction of syphilis, would probably never be fully restored. In the same March 31 letter to Kupelwieser, quoting Goethe’s text for Gretchen he wrote:
“I feel myself to be the most unhappy and wretched creature in the world. Imagine a man whose health will never be right again, and who in sheer despair makes things worse and worse, instead of better, imagine a man, I say, whose most brilliant hopes have perished, to whom the felicity of love and friendship have nothing to offer but pain, at best, whom enthusiasm (at least of the stimulating kind) for all things beautiful threatens to forsake, and, I ask you, is he not a miserable, unhappy being? ‘My peace is gone, my heart is sore, I shall find it never and nevermore,’ I may well sing every day now, for each night, on retiring to bed, I hope I may not wake again, and each day but recalls yesterday’s grief.”
In addition to his broken health, Schubert’s biographer, John Reed refers to the composer’s disenchantment with Viennese taste and its embrace of triviality in the wake of Metternich’s absolutist re-ordering of Europe and the emergent “Biedermeier” culture. Reed characterizes the A minor Quartet as “a Romantic excursion to the land of lost content”.
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A note from the producer: This stunningly beautiful performance by my friends of the Hugo Wolf Quartett in Vienna was recorded as a companion to Ralf Gawlick's autobiographical quartet, "Imagined Memories", which quotes this work directly (as well as many other staples of the quartet repertory) as a kind of prelude of "memories", introducing the main body of Ralf's new work. When talking with cellist Florian Bernier about the ensemble's beautiful intonation and impeccable sense of style (very evident in this recording), he told me that the quartet played nothing during its first year other than four-part chorales by J.S. Bach, in order to perfect intonation and style. Among the group's mentors was the Alban Berg Quartett (also from Vienna), with which the Hugo Wolfs studied, but the younger quartet is equally influenced by the "historical" movement, symbolized in Vienna by the Harnoncourts, Nikolaus and Alice. I have never heard more beautiful or insightful Schubert than this performance of the great "Rosamunde" Quartet. The performance was recorded in the exceptional surroundings of The Church of the Redeemer in Chestnut Hill, MA (USA). Joel Gordon, Ralf Gawlick and I (the production/engineering team for Musica Omnia, the label that recorded the work) were stunned by the level of artistry displayed by this great Viennese ensemble. And they: Sebastian, Regis, Subin & Florian are also close friends and colleagues, premiering more works of Ralf in Germany and Vienna this year, 2022. Peter Watchorn, producer, Musica Omnia, Inc.
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The comfort and wonderfulness of Schubert‘s music are irreplaceable and incomparable
Ah yes another work of beauty from my favorite composer
Wunderschöne und lyrische Interpretation dieses romantischen und perfekt komponierten Streichquartetts in verschiedenen Tempi mit seidigen doch gut phrasierten Tönen vierer genialen Instrumente. Der zweite Satz klingt besonders schön und echt melodisch. Die intime und perfekt entsprechende Miteinanderwirkung zwischen den vier Virtuosen ist wahrlich eindrucksvoll. Einfach wunderbar!
Sehr mit einverstanden.
Thank you for posting this brilliant performance of a supremely great work by a supremely great composer.
Marvelous performance and great to watch with the score. One can begin to appreciate Schubert's craftsmanship in some of the deceptively simpler moments such as the lovely opening melody.
Wonderful !
wunderbar!
So glad I've heard this . I need to hear more of Schubert's chamber music ! Pianists are often lazy about vocal and ensemble exploration .
Bella interpretación
Amazing that such a peoductive member of youtube only has 98k subs!
Hello Bartje, love your channel, would be nice if you could tell who was the conductor and orchestra for the Gliere Sym no.3 you posted, which the track is removed now. Great thanks!
It got blocked world wide. BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Edward Downes
That's the Avengers quartet!!
Wasn't this in Spiderman Homecoming?
It was in The Avengers
Wait? When did that happen????