"later became known as the ""Trout Quintet"" (D. 667). Franz Liszt transcribed and paraphrased """" in two versions for solo piano. The first was in 1844 as the sixth part of his composition ""Sechs Melodien von Franz Schubert"" (S 560); the second transcription was in 1846 (S 564). Information regarding the contemporary reception to """" is scant. Reed relates that the song had ""immediate popularity"", and that Schubert composing the ""Trout Quintet"" was evidence that """" ""was already widely known"" by 1819. Newbould agrees, pointing out that the quintet was ""acknowledging the song's meteoric rise up early nineteenth-century Vienna's equivalent"
"Die Forelle """" (German for ""The Trout""), Op. 32, 550. is a lied, or song, composed in early 1817 for solo voice and piano with music by the Austrian composer Franz Schubert (1797–1828). Schubert chose to set the text of a poem by Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart, first published in the """" in 1783. The full poem tells the story of a trout being caught by a fisherman, but in its final stanza reveals its purpose as a moral piece warning young women to guard against young men. When Schubert set the poem to music, he removed the last verse,"
"ensembles such as the string quartet or piano trio. Despite this, there is a substantial number of chamber works that incorporate the double bass in both small and large ensembles. There is a small body of works written for piano quintet with the instrumentation of piano, violin, viola, cello, and double bass. The most famous is Franz Schubert's Piano Quintet in A major, known as ""The Trout Quintet"" for its set of variations in the fourth movement of Schubert's ""Die Forelle"". Other works for this instrumentation written from roughly the same period include those by Johann Nepomuk Hummel, George Onslow,"
"in 1918 by Robert Bridges. Free verse and other stylistic innovations came to the forefront in this era, with which T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound were especially associated. T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) was born American, migrated to England in 1914, and he was ""arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century."" He produced some of the best-known poems in the English language, including ""The Waste Land"" (1922) and ""Four Quartets"" (1935–1942). The Georgian poets like Rupert Brooke, Walter de la Mare (1873–1956) and John Masefield (1878–1967, Poet Laureate from 1930) maintained a more conservative approach to poetry"
"of the noted 1934 horror film ""The Black Cat"". Piano Quintet (Schumann) The Piano Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 44, by Robert Schumann was composed in 1842 and received its first public performance the following year. Noted for its ""extroverted, exuberant"" character, Schumann's piano quintet is considered one of his finest compositions and a major work of nineteenth-century chamber music. Composed for piano and string quartet, the work revolutionized the instrumentation and musical character of the piano quintet and established it as a quintessentially Romantic genre. Schumann composed his piano quintet in just a few weeks in September and October"
"String Quartet No. 1 (Beethoven) The String Quartet No. 1 in F major, Op. 18, No. 1, was written by Ludwig van Beethoven between 1798 and 1800, published in 1801, and dedicated to Joseph Franz von Lobkowitz. It is actually the second string quartet that Beethoven composed. The quartet consists of four movements: According to Beethoven's friend Karl Amenda, the second movement was inspired by the tomb scene from William Shakespeare's ""Romeo and Juliet"". The quartet was heavily revised between the version that Amenda first received and the one that was sent to the publisher a year later, including changing"
"of the musical ""Cats"" by Andrew Lloyd Webber, first produced in London's West End in 1981 and opening on Broadway the following year. Eliot regarded ""Four Quartets"" as his masterpiece, and it is the work that led to his being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. It consists of four long poems, each first published separately: ""Burnt Norton"" (1936), ""East Coker"" (1940), ""The Dry Salvages"" (1941) and ""Little Gidding"" (1942). Each has five sections. Although they resist easy characterisation, each poem includes meditations on the nature of time in some important respect—theological, historical, physical—and its relation to the human condition."
"Four Quartets Four Quartets is a set of four poems written by T. S. Eliot that were published over a six-year period. The first poem, ""Burnt Norton"", was published with a collection of his early works (1936's ""Collected Poems 1909–1935"".) After a few years, Eliot composed the other three poems, ""East Coker"", ""The Dry Salvages"", and ""Little Gidding"", which were written during World War II and the air-raids on Great Britain. They were first published as a series by Faber and Faber in Great Britain between 1940 and 1942 towards the end of Eliot's poetic career (""East Coker"" in September"
"Piano Quintet (Elgar) The Quintet in A minor for Piano and String Quartet, Op. 84 is a chamber work by Edward Elgar. He worked on the Quintet and two other major chamber pieces in the summer of 1918 while staying at Brinkwells near Fittleworth in Sussex. W. H. ""Billy"" Reed considered that all three were ‘influenced by the quiet and peaceful surroundings during that wonderful summer’. The Quintet was first performed on 21 May 1919, by the pianist William Murdoch, the violinists Albert Sammons and W. H. Reed, the violist Raymond Jeremy and the cellist Felix Salmond. These players included"
"to the charts"". Fischer-Dieskau takes a longer-term view of the song's popularity, writing that ""the vividness of the imagery, with the alternate troubling and smoothing of the surface of the water along with the exuberance of the melody itself, account for the song's universal appeal"". Notes References Die Forelle """" (German for ""The Trout""), Op. 32, 550. is a lied, or song, composed in early 1817 for solo voice and piano with music by the Austrian composer Franz Schubert (1797–1828). Schubert chose to set the text of a poem by Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart, first published in the """" in"
"String Quartet No. 3 (Beethoven) The String Quartet No. 3 in D major, Op. 18, No. 3, was written by Ludwig van Beethoven between 1798 and 1800 and published in 1801, and dedicated to Joseph Franz von Lobkowitz. Although it is numbered third, it was the first quartet Beethoven composed. It consists of four movements: According to Steinberg, this is ""the gentlest, most consistently lyrical work [within Beethoven's Op. 18]"", except for the fourth movement, in which ""Beethoven first explores the idea of shifting the centre of gravity toward the end of a multimovement work"". The first movement starts with"
"own craft and artistic vision”. String Quartet No. 3 (Beethoven) The String Quartet No. 3 in D major, Op. 18, No. 3, was written by Ludwig van Beethoven between 1798 and 1800 and published in 1801, and dedicated to Joseph Franz von Lobkowitz. Although it is numbered third, it was the first quartet Beethoven composed. It consists of four movements: According to Steinberg, this is ""the gentlest, most consistently lyrical work [within Beethoven's Op. 18]"", except for the fourth movement, in which ""Beethoven first explores the idea of shifting the centre of gravity toward the end of a multimovement work""."
"Octet (Schubert) The Octet in F major, D. 803 was composed by Franz Schubert in March 1824. It was commissioned by the renowned clarinetist Ferdinand Troyer and came from the same period as two of Schubert's other major chamber works, the 'Rosamunde' and 'Death and the Maiden' string quartets. Consisting of six movements, the Octet takes almost an hour to perform. The Octet boasts the largest scale for any chamber work by Schubert. It is scored for a clarinet, a bassoon, a horn, two violins, a viola, a cello, and a double bass. This instrumentation is similar to that of"
"judged du Pré ""one of the most stunningly gifted musicians of our time"". The 1969 performance at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London of the Schubert Piano Quintet in A major, ""The Trout"", was the basis of a film, ""The Trout"", by Christopher Nupen. Nupen made other films featuring du Pré, including ""Jacqueline du Pré and the Elgar Cello Concerto"", a documentary featuring a live performance of the Elgar; and ""The Ghost"", with Barenboim and Zukerman in a performance of the ""Ghost"" Piano Trio in D major, by Beethoven. In 1971, du Pré's playing declined as she began to lose"
"Piano Sonata No. 18 (Mozart) The Piano Sonata No. 18 in D major, K. 576, was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as part of a set of six for Princess Friederike of Prussia in 1789. It is often nicknamed ""The Hunt"" or ""The Trumpet Sonata"", for the hornlike opening. The sonata, having a typical performance duration of about 15 minutes, is Mozart's last. In a letter to a fellow Freemason Michael von Puchberg, dated 12 July 1789, Mozart wrote ""meanwhile I am working on six easy piano sonatas for Princess Friederike and six quartets for the King"". Hermann Abert believed"
"Quintet for clarinet and strings (Moore) Quintet for clarinet and strings is a piece of chamber music by the American composer Douglas Moore. In 1946, the Juilliard School of Music requested from Moore a chamber piece to be performed at a school concert the following year. He worked at and finished the piece during the summer of 1946 at his home in Cutchogue. The premiere was given the following year. The work is in traditional sonata form and consists of four movements The first movement is the most dynamic and is chiefly dominated by a tensely rhythmic figure achieved by"
"String Quartet No. 14 (Schubert) The String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, known as Death and the Maiden, is a piece by Franz Schubert that has been called ""one of the pillars of the chamber music repertoire."" It was composed in 1824, after the composer suffered a serious illness and realized that he was dying. It is named for the theme of the second movement, which Schubert took from a song he wrote in 1817 of the same title. Some interpret it as Schubert's testament to death, and find that the theme of death is palpable in all four"
"La jolie fille de Perth La jolie fille de Perth ""(The Fair Maid of Perth)"" is an opera in four acts by Georges Bizet (1838–1875), from a libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Jules Adenis, after the novel by Sir Walter Scott. Many writers have reserved severe criticism for the librettists for their stock devices and improbable events, while praising Bizet's advance on his earlier operas in construction of set pieces and his striking melodic and instrumental ideas. It was first performed at the Théâtre Lyrique (Théâtre-Lyrique Impérial du Châtelet), Paris, on 26 December 1867. Although commissioned by Carvalho"
"String Quartets Nos. 1–6, Op. 18 (Beethoven) Ludwig van Beethoven's Op. 18, published in 1801 by T. Mollo et Comp in Vienna in two books of three quartets each, consisted of his first six string quartets. They were composed between 1798 and 1800 to fulfill a commission for Prince Joseph Franz Maximilian Lobkowitz, who was the employer of Beethoven's friend, the violinist Karl Amenda. They are thought to demonstrate his total mastery of the classical string quartet as developed by Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The order of publication (numbering within the opus) does not correspond to the order"
"Quinteto (em forma de chôros) The Quinteto (em forma de chôros) (Fr.: Quintette (""en forme de chôros"") = Quintet (in the Form of a Chôros)) is a chamber-music composition by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, written in 1928. Originally scored for five woodwind instruments (flute, oboe, cor anglais, clarinet, and bassoon), it is most often performed in an arrangement for the conventional wind quintet of flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, and bassoon. A performance lasts about eleven minutes. Villa-Lobos composed the work in Paris in 1928, during the same period in which he was working on the series of fourteen ""Chôros""."
"Op. 111, and the slow third movement of the Ninth Symphony, Op.125. Franz Schubert wrote five variation sets using his own lieder as themes. Amongst them is the slow movement of his string quartet ""Death and the Maiden"" D. 810, an intense set of variations on his somber lied (D. 531) of the same title. Schubert's Piano Quintet in A (""The Trout"", D. 667) likewise includes variations on his song ""The Trout"" D. 550. The second movement of the Fantasie in C major comprises a set of variations on ""Der Wanderer""; indeed the work as a whole takes its popular"
"Clarinet Quartet (Penderecki) The Clarinet Quartet, also known as Quartet for Clarinet and String Trio, is a work for clarinet, violin, viola, and cello by Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki. It was finished in 1993. This composition was dedicated to Ake Holmquist and premiered in Lübeck on August 13, 1993. For this performance, Israeli clarinetist Sharon Kam, German violinist Christoph Poppen, American violist Kim Kashkashian, and collaborator and Russian cellist Boris Piergamienszczikow played the work under the baton of Penderecki himself. These musicians also performed the piece to be broadcast in television, also with Penderecki as conductor. It was later published"
"String Quartet No. 2 (Beethoven) The String Quartet No. 2 in G major, Op. 18, No. 2, was written by Ludwig van Beethoven between 1798 and 1800 and published in 1801, and dedicated to Joseph Franz von Lobkowitz. It consists of four movements: Of the Op. 18 string quartets, this one is the most grounded in 18th-century musical tradition. According to Steinberg, ""In German-speaking countries, the graceful curve of the first violin's opening phrase has earned the work the nickname of Komplimentier-Quartett, which might be translated as 'quartet of bows and curtseys'."" The nickname may have originated from one of"
"in his novel ""Point Counter Point"" makes extended reference and description of this quartet in the late chapter concerning the death/suicide of the character Maurice Spandrell. String Quartet No. 15 (Beethoven) The String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132, by Ludwig van Beethoven, was written in 1825, given its public premiere on November 6 of that year by the Schuppanzigh Quartet and was dedicated to Count Nikolai Galitzin, as were Opp. 127 and 130. The number traditionally assigned to it is based on the order of its publication; it is actually the thirteenth quartet in order of composition."
"nor had any European novel before managed to convey the psychology, the technical abilities, even the human potentialities of those who practise music for a living. Several musical works figure prominently in ""An Equal Music"". Among these are the Trout Quintet by Franz Schubert, the String Quintet in C minor by Ludwig van Beethoven, and ""The Lark Ascending"" by Ralph Vaughan Williams. An Equal Music An Equal Music (1999) is a novel by Vikram Seth. The plot concerns Michael, a professional violinist, who never forgot his love for Julia, a pianist he met as a student in Vienna. They meet"
"to be ""the most exciting, take-no-prisoners quartet since George Crumb's ""Black Angels"" (1971), and it should become just as popular."" String Quartet No. 3 (Rouse) The String Quartet No. 3 is the third string quartet by the American composer Christopher Rouse. The work was jointly commissioned by the Festival of Arts and Ideas, the Calder Quartet, Chamber Music America, Carnegie Hall, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, and the LaJolla Music Society. It was first performed at Yale University on June 18, 2010 by the Calder Quartet, to whom the piece is dedicated. The composition has a duration of roughly"
"Triple Quartet Triple Quartet is a piece written by Steve Reich in 1998. It was commissioned by and is dedicated to the Kronos Quartet, and was premiered by them on May 22, 1999 in the Kennedy Center, Washington DC. As the name suggests, the triple quartet is written for three string quartets, each containing 2 violins, a viola and a cello. However, it is designed to be performed by only one string quartet through the use of prerecorded tracks for the other 8 voices. The composer had this to say about the structure of the piece: The piece is in"
"Septet (Beethoven) The Septet in E-flat major, Opus 20, by Ludwig van Beethoven, was sketched out in 1799, completed, and first performed in 1800 and published in 1802. The score contains the notation: ""Der Kaiserin Maria Theresia gewidmet"", or translated, ""Dedicated to the Empress Maria Theresa."" It is scored for clarinet, horn, bassoon, violin, viola, cello, and double bass. The composition is in six movements and runs approximately 40 minutes in performance: The overall layout resembles a serenade and is in fact more or less the same as that of Mozart's string trio, K. 563 in the same key, but"
"Burnt Norton Burnt Norton is the first poem of T. S. Eliot's ""Four Quartets"". He created it while working on his play ""Murder in the Cathedral"" and it was first published in his ""Collected Poems 1909–1935"" (1936). The poem's title refers to a Cotswolds manor house Eliot visited. The manor's garden served as an important image within the poem. Structurally, the poem is based on Eliot's ""The Waste Land"" with passages of the poem related to those excised from ""Murder in the Cathedral"". The central discussion within the poem is on the nature of time and salvation. Eliot emphasises the"
"not intended to bring trivialities to market. It strives towards breadth, soaring flight and above all resonance for the instruments for which it is written."" The first performance of the quartet took place in Cologne in October 1878, by a quartet led by the work's dedicatee, violinist Robert Heckmann. Publication of the quartet was delayed when the composer's preferred publisher, C.F. Peters, initially rejected the quartet because they believed the double stopping in some movements would require the work to be rewritten as a piano quartet or quintet. Grieg had to find another publisher, E.W. Fritzsch, and only after the"
"in E minor. On hearing the work in progress, Alice Elgar wrote in her diary, ""E. writing wonderful new music"". All three works were well received. ""The Times"" wrote, ""Elgar's sonata contains much that we have heard before in other forms, but as we do not at all want him to change and be somebody else, that is as it should be."" The quartet and quintet were premiered at the Wigmore Hall on 21 May 1919. ""The Manchester Guardian"" wrote, ""This quartet, with its tremendous climaxes, curious refinements of dance-rhythms, and its perfect symmetry, and the quintet, more lyrical and"
"String Quartet No. 3 (Rouse) The String Quartet No. 3 is the third string quartet by the American composer Christopher Rouse. The work was jointly commissioned by the Festival of Arts and Ideas, the Calder Quartet, Chamber Music America, Carnegie Hall, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, and the LaJolla Music Society. It was first performed at Yale University on June 18, 2010 by the Calder Quartet, to whom the piece is dedicated. The composition has a duration of roughly 22 minutes and is composed in one continuous movement. The Calder Quartet had previously recorded Rouse's first and second string"
"String Quintet, Op. 29 (Beethoven) The String Quintet in C major, Op. 29 written by Ludwig van Beethoven, was composed in 1801. This work is scored for string quartet and an extra viola (two violins, two violas, and cello). The Op. 29 is Beethoven's only full-scale, original composition in the string quintet genre; of his other quintet works, the Op. 4 is an extensively reworked arrangement of the earlier Octet for Winds, Op. 103, the String Quintet Op. 104 is an arrangement of an earlier piano trio, and the later fugue is a fragmentary work. The composer dedicated this work"