Schubert Octet | December 14, 2017 | Schubert | Octet in F major, D.803 Allegro скачать в хорошем качестве

Schubert Octet | December 14, 2017 | Schubert | Octet in F major, D.803 Allegro

Ying Quartet Joseph Anderer, horn William Short, bassoon Alexander Bedenko, clarinet Brendan Kane, double bass Illustrated talk by Misha Donat Schubert — Octet No piece by Schubert pays clearer homage to his greatest contemporary, Beethoven, than his Octet, one of his most irresistibly exuberant chamber works. It was commissioned by Count Ferdinand Troyer, amateur clarinetist and chief steward to Beethoven’s pupil and patron Archduke Rudolph of Austria. Troyer wanted a piece modeled on Beethoven’s Septet, Op. 20, and Schubert duly scored his music for an almost identical ensemble. He also mirrored Beethoven’s six-movement scheme, even prefacing each of the outer movements with a slow introduction. And as in the Beethoven, the work’s centerpiece is a set of variations. This being Schubert, the variation theme comes from one of his vocal compositions: a duet in a Singspiel he had composed at the age of eighteen.