Composer of the Week: Schubert

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Composer of the Week: Franz Schubert (1797-1828): Composing for money

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Composing for money

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Donald Macleod explores the year 1816, when Schubert was 19.

Donald Macleod explores the year 1816, a year in which Schubert made his first money from composing after his friends encouraged him to leave teaching and devote himself to music.

This week of programmes about Franz Schubert focuses on five years through his short life, and features one of his string quartets every day. 

In 1816, a year in which he made his first money from composing, 19-year-old Schubert was locked in a room and forced to compose by his 'friends', friends who went on to encourage him to leave his teaching work and devote himself to music. 

We hear one of the songs he gifted to his first love (sadly not resulting in the marriage he longed for), part of an early setting of the Mass, settings of poems by Goethe, and his eleventh String Quartet. 

Six Écossaises for piano, D 421 
Michael Endres, piano

String Quartet No. 11 in E major, D 353
Melos Quartet

Litanei, D 343 
Dorothee Jansen, soprano
Francis Grier, piano

Mass No 4 C major, D 452 Op 48 (mvt 1. Kyrie. Andante con moto & mvt 2. Gloria. Allegro vivace)
Thomas Puchegger, soprano
Belà Fischer, alto 
Jörg Hering, tenor
Harry van der Kamp, bass
Wiener Sangerknaben
Chorus Viennesis
Arno Hartmann, organ
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Bruno Weil, conductor

Jägers Abendlied, D 368 
Christoph Prégardien, tenor
Andreas Staier, piano

Der König in Thule, D 367 
Christoph Prégardien, tenor 
Andreas Staier, harpsichord

An Schwager Kronos, D 369 
Christoph Prégardien, tenor
Andreas Staier, piano


Producer: Amy Wheel for BBC Wales

Composer of the Week: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

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A week of programmes about Franz Schubert focusing on five years of his short life.

A week of programmes about Franz Schubert focusing on five years of his short life and featuring, each day, one of his string quartets.

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