{"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 &#8216;Quartettsatz&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 34\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>The Quartettsatz of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">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 &#8211; 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<p>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":"<p>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 &#8211; ranging widely from a fantastically sweet melody which seems loathe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":24,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1261,"href":"https:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/538\/revisions\/1261"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}