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.
"Auf dem Strom" ("On the River") D.943 Op. 119, was
written in 1828 – based upon a text by Ludwig
Rellstab. It was a work composed for a concert of his
own music on March 26, 1828 – the first anniversary
of Ludwig von Beethoven’s death. Amazingly, this was
the first public concert to feature solely the music of
Schubert, and sadly, this was to be the year of
Schubert’s own death. The landmark concert proved to
be both a musical and financial success. It is noted
that the second entry of the tenor contains an allusion
to the funeral march from Beethoven's "Eroica"
Symphony, which may bear a subliminal dedication to
Ludwig van Beethoven.
Much of Schubert’s fame rests upon his treatment of
the German lied, bringing it to the status of an
‘art’ song and thereby making the art song one of
the primary vehicles of the German Romantic composer.
Schubert’s poignant textures and his synthesis of
text and music set the stage for European song
composers for the rest of the 19th century. Auf dem
Strom was originally written for tenor voice, horn and
piano. Schubert’s use of the French horn as an
obbligato part in Auf dem Strom is unique among his
songs.
Source: Wikipedia
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_by_Franz_S
chubert)
Although originally composed for Voice, Horn & Piano, I
created this Interpretation of "Auf dem Strom" (On the
River D.943 Op. 119) for Flute & Strings (2 Violins,
Viola & Cello).