![]() ![]() Thus Beethoven will be duly represented and so will the blues musicians I like, the avant garde, the obscure and the just plain different. A classic to me is a piece of music that lasts, no matter what type of music it is. My taste in music does run to the classics, but what is exactly meant by a classic to me can be a different thing. But every once in a while there will be a posting about music or a musician that could be considered outside the traditional classical designation. Most of the music discussed here is what is termed 'classical' music. Vivaldi - Concerto For Guitar And Strings.IV.Allegro vivace -The finale is in sonata form and rounds off the work with movement and a little drama in places. Menuetto Allegro molto -This movement also resembles Mozart's 'peasant stomp' minuets and could be called a scherzo. ![]() Andante - A movement that reflects the style of Mozart while retaining Schubert's lyrical style. Allegro - Unlike Schubert's previous four symphonies, the 5th doesn't begin with a slow introduction, but with the beginning of the first subject. Among his 9 symphonies, the 5th was the only symphony performed in his lifetime at a private concert in 1817. He has been called by some one of the composers that began the Romantic age of classical music.īesides some of his songs, much of Schubert's music was not performed in his lifetime. His influence on later musicians such as Liszt, Schumann, and Bruckner was profound. The life of Franz Schubert was one of the marvels of human creativity and industriousness, a man who died when he was 31 years old and whose compositions number 998 according to Otto Erich Deutsch, the musicologist that created a catalog of Schubert's works listed chronologically by composition date. The 5th shows Schubert's progress in his mastery of orchestral writing. ![]() The contrasts between the two symphonies are striking. The symphony was composed in 1816, the same year as his Symphony No.4. The 5th symphony is unique from the rest of Schubert's because there are no clarinets, trumpets or timpani in the score, and only one flute. He composed this symphony almost like chamber music, as the style of the music and the orchestration has a Mozartean lightness. Schubert's love for the music of Mozart is apparent in this symphony. The school orchestra played many works by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, and the young Schubert absorbed the influences of these composers so quickly that he had a very good understanding of classical form. He played viola in the school orchestra and may have conducted also. Schubert's affinity for orchestral writing no doubt came from his experience in the school for musicians he attended. By the time he was 19 he had written this 5th symphony and many other works. Schubert began his life as a composer at an early age. ![]()
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