{"id":538,"date":"2014-10-06T05:18:11","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T12:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/?page_id=538"},"modified":"2020-03-14T03:43:33","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T10:43:33","slug":"schubert-franz-d-709-quartettsatz","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/?page_id=538","title":{"rendered":"Schubert, Franz: D709 ‘Quartettsatz’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Quartettsatz of Franz SchuberT <\/span>is the first movement from an unfin- ished quartet. But it is an explosively complete work, surrounded as it is at start and finish by malevolent parentheses of C minor. The music between these epi- sodes is peculiarly wandering – ranging widely from a fantastically sweet melody which seems loathe to end itself, to outbursts of something like rage, to over-harmonized and diaphanous chorales. It also has a weirdly unsuccessful development section; perhaps, given the force of its beginning, an even greater travel in the outer sections can be felt by contrast with the architectural absence in the middle.<\/p>\n

There exists a sketch for a second movement, but it trails off before it gains much direction. Surely Schubert had a solution in mind, but, for whatever reason, he left the project behind. The first movement alone, however, leaves both listeners and performers with an odd sense of absolute completion, and a range of expression extraordinary for any composer \u2014 it is a dense example of so much of the lyricism and formal adventurism which belonged especially to Schubert.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Quartettsatz of Franz SchuberT is the first movement from an unfin- ished quartet. But it is an explosively complete work, surrounded as it is at start and finish by malevolent parentheses of C minor. The music between these epi- sodes is peculiarly wandering – ranging widely from a fantastically sweet melody which seems loathe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":24,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t