Saturday, February 12, 2022

Saturday Night Music – Franz Schubert

Franz Schubert (31 January 1797 – 19 November 1828

8 comments:

  1. Wompum! Will listen later, my favourite composer. Did you know his operas are fine works that have sadly been neglected, especially Fierebrass and Alfonso and Estrella.

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    1. I know he is your favourite composer, and thus I thought of you when posting this on the occasion of his 225th birthday.

      The German Wikipedia tells since 1982 there have been seven Fierrabras-productions, amongst them one with Claudio Abbado (Theater an der Wien, 1988), and one with Peter Stein (Salzburg Festival, 2014).
      Latest Alfonso and Estrella-production: Vienna Festival 1997 (Nikolaus Hernoncourt/JürgenFlimm); this production was taken over in Zurich in 2001.

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  2. Well it was sunday morning music to me but vintage Schubert well played. I don't know what it is about his music that touches the heart, maybe the intervals.

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    1. I do ask such questions very seldom.
      Either music / words / paintings etc. touch my heart, or they don't.

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  3. It has also been a long 'interval' between poem blogs
    poemblog29.blogspot.com

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