Franz Peter Schubert (1797 – 1828) was an Austrian
composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras.
Despite his short life, Schubert left behind a vast
oeuvre, including more than 600 secular vocal works
(mainly lieder), seven complete symphonies, sacred
music, operas, incidental music, and a large body of
piano and chamber music. His major works include the
art song "Erlkönig" , the Piano Trout Quintet in A
major, the unfinished Symphony No. 8 in B minor, the
"Great" Symphony No. 9 in...(+)
Franz Peter Schubert (1797 – 1828) was an Austrian
composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras.
Despite his short life, Schubert left behind a vast
oeuvre, including more than 600 secular vocal works
(mainly lieder), seven complete symphonies, sacred
music, operas, incidental music, and a large body of
piano and chamber music. His major works include the
art song "Erlkönig" , the Piano Trout Quintet in A
major, the unfinished Symphony No. 8 in B minor, the
"Great" Symphony No. 9 in C major, a String Quintet,
the three last piano sonatas, the opera Fierrabras, the
incidental music to the play Rosamunde, and the song
cycles Die schöne Müllerin and Winterreise. He was
remarkably prolific, writing over 1,500 works in his
short career. His compositional style progressed
rapidly throughout his short life. The largest number
of his compositions are songs for solo voice and piano
(roughly 630). Schubert also composed a considerable
number of secular works for two or more voices, namely
part songs, choruses and cantatas. He completed eight
orchestral overtures and seven complete symphonies, in
addition to fragments of six others. While he composed
no concertos, he did write three concertante works for
violin and orchestra. Schubert wrote a large body of
music for solo piano, including eleven incontrovertibly
completed sonatas and at least eleven more in varying
states of completion, numerous miscellaneous works and
many short dances, in addition to producing a large set
of works for piano four hands. He also wrote over fifty
chamber works, including some fragmentary works.
Schubert's sacred output includes seven masses, one
oratorio and one requiem, among other mass movements
and numerous smaller compositions. He completed only
eleven of his twenty stage works.
November 19th, 1828 was Schubert’s last day in this
world. In addition to his prolific compositional
activity during his last year, which includes
Schwanengesang, his church music output is also
significant. Although there were seven years between
the unfinished Lazarus (1820) and completed Deutsche
Messe (1827), Schubert noticeably increased his church
music compositions, in both liturgical and
non-liturgical works, in 1828. It has been assumed that
his failing health motivated him to return to the
composition of sacred music after the middle of 1828.
Perhaps he began to realize that his death was
imminent. Schubert composed his last major sacred
composition, the Mass in E-flat (D. 950, July), and
smaller works such as a Hebrew setting of Psalm 92 (D.
953, July), and three choral pieces: Mirjams
Siegesgesang (D. 942, March), Hymnus an den heiligen
Geist (D. 948, May), and Glaube, Hoffnung und Liebe (D.
954, August), as well as a Benedictus in A minor (D.
961, October), Tantum ergo in E-flat (D. 962, October),
and an Offertory, Intende voci (D. 963, October).
Source: Wikipedia
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Schubert)
Although originally composed for Double Choir (TTBB
TTBB), I created this Interpretation of "Hymnus an den
heiligen Geist" (Hymn to the Holy Spirit D.948) for
Winds (Flute, Oboe, French Horn & Bassoon) & Strings (2
Violins, Viola & Cello).
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