![]() He also wrote a number of dances for piano-waltzes, Ländler, and German dances. Schubert’s compositions for piano include a number of sonatas, some left unfinished, as well as the Wanderer Fantasy and two sets of impromptus, D. 899 and D. 935. It now provides additional repertoire for the cello or viola. The ‘Arpeggione’ Sonata was written for a newly devised and soon obsolete stringed instrument, the arpeggione. To the violin sonatas (sonatinas) of 1816 may be added the more ambitious Duo for violin and piano, D. 574 of the following year and the Fantasy D. 934, published in 1828, the year of Schubert’s death. Schubert’s Octet for clarinet, horn, bassoon, two violins, viola, cello, and double bass was written early in 1824. The two piano trios and the single-movement Notturno date from the same year. The Piano Quintet ‘Die Forelle’ (‘The Trout’) includes a movement of variations on that song, while the great C major String Quintet of 1828 is of unsurpassable beauty. Of Schubert’s various string quartets, the Quartet in A minor, with its variations on the well-known Rosamunde theme, and the Quartet in D minor ‘Death and the Maiden’, with variations on the song of that name, are the most familiar. His various overtures include two ‘in the Italian style’. Other symphonies of the eight more or less completed include the ‘Great’ C major Symphony and the Classical and charming Fifth Symphony. The ‘Unfinished’ Symphony of Schubert was written in 1822, but no complete addition was made to the two movements of the work. Many songs by Schubert are very familiar, including Der Erlkönig (‘The Erlking’), the Mignon songs from Goethe, and the Songs of Norma from Sir Walter Scott. His song cycles published in his lifetime are Die schöne Müllerin (‘The Fair Maid of the Mill’) and Die Winterreise (‘The Winter Journey’), while Schwanengesang (‘Swan-Song’) was compiled by a publisher after the composer’s early death. Schubert wrote for mixed voices, male voices, and female voices, but by far, the most famous of his vocal compositions are the 500 or so songs-settings of verses ranging from Shakespeare to his friends and contemporaries. He completed his final setting of the Mass in the last year of his life, and it was first performed the following year. The ballet music and entracte from Rosamunde are particularly well known.Īmong the various works Schubert wrote for church use, particular mention may be made of the second of his six complete settings of the Mass. His best-known compositions of this kind include the music for the unsuccessful play Rosamunde, Fürstin von Zypern (‘Rosamunde, Princess of Cyprus’), mounted at the Theater an der Wien in December 1823. ![]() Schubert wrote operas, Singspiel, and incidental music for the theatre. ![]() Schubert’s compositions are generally numbered according to the Deutsch catalogue, with the letter D. His gifts had been most notably expressed in song, his talent for melody always evident in his other compositions. His final years were clouded by illness as the result of a syphilitic infection, and he died aged 31, leaving much unfinished. He spent his life largely in Vienna, enjoying the company of friends, but never holding any position in the musical establishment or attracting the kind of patronage that Beethoven had 20 years earlier. He later qualified as a schoolteacher, briefly and thereafter intermittently joining his father in the classroom. The son of a schoolmaster who had settled in Vienna, Franz Schubert was educated as a chorister of the imperial court chapel.
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