Schubert - "Death and the Maiden" Quartet in D Minor (1)

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Such deep emotion ~ expressed musically.

[UNDENATUREDisaword]

Anyone else wish he had written a violin concerto, maybe a piano concerto? OH what they would sound like...?! But for that damn obsession with opera and symphonies; well those works are very much branded with his fascinating color-palette, so that's nice.

[NotVeryInventiveName]

Why does every classical youtube clip contain comments like: "Dude, I'm a metalhead but I also think this music is awesome"?

Are you afraid of being seen as brain-damaged headbangers, or just trying to stress the already obvious connection between hardrock and its derivatives and classical music? Just seems like meaningless internet-posing.

[PTR131]

The only bad thing about Schubert was him not being a Nazi.

[sebbedamon]

@PTR131

Hahahaha total troll you.

[Bruceforge]

@PTR131 Hah, commie. 

[VMOjeda1]

@PTR131 what do you want to say? can you explain it

[PTR131]

@VMOjeda1 I'm trying to say that National Socialism is my favorite thing in this world.

[quandrax]

Heil @PTR131!

[Hannahegywarriors]

ahh finally some excellent regency period emo music...

[TiinaBalleriiina]

Listening to this while I do my homework makes me feel smart :)

[MrKarlEB]

I don't care if you love metal, this music is simply good...

[macsek123]

Hihetetlen jó előadás!

Eddig még nem ismertem.

Gratulálok!

[MrGgNoobz]

Now I dont't like lady gaga and justin bieber because of this song

[AlenaD92]

@MrGgNoobz Dear God!, Schubert really does wonderful things even from the grave!

[kopeckyrene]

Grandiozni

[Fiction4128]

Ah D Minor... the saddest of all keys

[Jeffodious]

@Fiction4128 and the best of all keys :)

[Dahudrox]

OMFG!!!! Just reading a few of the comments and I LOVE Death metal AND classical music!!! ...is there a connection between these two completely different styles of music? LOL!!!! :)

[kliu95]

@Dahudrox Depends on the composer. This quartet, by Schubert, definitely. Anything Shostakovich, yep. Mozart? Nope. Haydn? Nope. Classical music doesn't just have one singular voice friend.

[MssWalewska1]

Polish translation: Śmierdzi Dziewczyna.

[RaffaellaQ]

@EatYeFigs Well, the reason why I started listening to classical music is that it was kinda hard trying to fall asleep while listening to death metal, especially If I woke up in the middle of the night with the urgent need for some good music ( and let's just say that listening to death metal with the volume turned on at max wasn't the best solution, buy I only realised that after my parents started complaining for their lack of sleep)

[AngelOfTheLastHope]

Schubert + Friedrich paintings + Classical-loving Metalheads = this page is a WIN.

[CosmicSeaOvFlesh]

@AngelOfTheLastHope If your into metal and love classical listen to Bartok. To some it may sound just like overused dissonance but to others its seen as awesome use of the epic tritone. Check it out, if you are not already aware. :)

[JohnnyExcitement]

Yeah, youtube. That's why I come to Classical music videos, to watch ads for The Hangover Part Two. Ur a Geeneeyuss

[Kmahl22]

@EatYeFigs Stop to say that, I listen to a lot of death, but don't compare music that are not alike at all, if you take real death metal (not melodic one) it is not one bit like classical music (i'm talking about band like death, etombed etc ...)

[Kavbojus]

@Kmahl22 Well, music on Demigod's Slumber of Sullen Eyes is especially similar to this Schubert's piece for me. Also Morbid Angel has lot's of Bach influence on Blessed are the Sick. I can sense some Liszt in the latter as well (try Lizst's Prometheus).

[RaffaellaQ]

@EatYeFigs People usually think I'm weird because I listen to both metal and classical music, and I keep telling them that these two genres are very alike... So thank you for stating this, now I know that I'm right.

[ggalexhutchings]

@RaffaellaQ yeah, there is something between metal and classical. i think it gets a little overstated at times, but i get it. i guess it helps that i've played classical since i was 3 and my sister got me into metal by bringing an anthrax tape home when i was 6 though.

[Johannesbaerli]

Stell Dir mal vor, Bäume sind Wurzeln!

[Johannesbaerli]

@Johannesbaerli

Nicht Wurzeln, die aus der Erde kommen.

Die Erde ist eine Frucht.

[Johannesbaerli]

@Johannesbaerli

Die Samen in sich trägt.

Und Früchte bringt.

Die Erde blüht nur einmal.

[Johannesbaerli]

@Johannesbaerli

Aber eine Frucht dürfen wir nicht essen.

[Johannesbaerli]

@Johannesbaerli

Wir sollten nicht denselben Fehler nochmal machen.

[LaPersonaNonGrata]

great stuff, truly. 

[MK40213]

Der Tod und das Mädchen: Schubert macht uns zum Voyeur, d.h. wir bleiben außen vor, als beträfe uns die fatale Angelegenheit nicht.

[psantosj]

I have been looking for a version of this quartet by this group! I love this quartet, one of the most impressive pieces of music.

[matheuspa42]

The best string quartet piece I know! Thank you, Schubert.

[Aikamatsu]

All the metal people listened to this in the 1817's.

[MichaelJLgs19p]

What is that painting?

[merigc]

@MichaelJLgs19p This is "The abbey in the oakwood" by Friedrich!

[MichaelJLgs19p]

@merigc oh ok thanks a lot. I love this painting cause, because among other things it reminds me of my copy of the Sorrows of Young Werther, one of my favorite books

[AgApE010]

@merigc

Thank you so much! I was trying to find this painting the other day. It has such a dark beauty about it; it's amazing.

[zigifrojd]

Great, love this very much, I thought to upload on my channel this piece, but this version is better than mine so now I dont want to, but I have uploaded the best version piano trio in E flat by Schubert. Congratulations, you uploaded best version "Death and the Maiden" I heard.

[timoteijedi]

I actually can`t believe that on a SCHUBERT video there are still people talking about pop singers...it`s unbelievable...

[grail68]

How has this never been brought to my attention before now? Amazing!

[alex007152]

so...tired of lady gaga, justin bieber or for that matter anything discussed on EVERY classical piece on youtube... to the nice people who make the music available to us to enjoy, please don't allow comments and ratings. people with complexes... nobodys interested in what you or other people listen. have a nice day.

[karliforson]

@alex007152 AMEN!

[Deenis17]

-Best quartet ever composed- EVER.

who's gonna deny?

[EpicCelloGirl]

I played this in my quartet a while back. This has to be one of my favorite compostions...ever. The cello part was the coolest things I've ever played. Everytime I listen to it I fall in love again.

[SirSebastianWang]

The ending is Franz grasping onto dear life, but then finally succumbing to death in the end. This quartet is one of the most intense of Schubert's works.

[AntimonyInSushi]

@SirSebastianWang Not Franz. His mind and imagination.

[AntimonyInSushi]

Shocked. It's that amazing.

The intensity blows me away.

[nicolas12189]

Cool

[Sotevy1]

Nice!

[Automongchong]

This is a fantastic recording of one of my favourite pieces by Schubert. Does anyone know the details of this recording? Thanks for posting!

[whneo97]

@Automongchong Search "Schubert - 'Death and the Maiden' Quartet in D Minor" in Google.

[shophmart]

i remember playing this song years ago with a cellist and another violinist. would love to play it again. i totally forgot what the song name was and glad to have found it here. the name death and the maiden sounded vaguely familiar and i got him confused with schumann. my memory sucks.i love this song though. although i dont listen to classical music, i love playing it. wierd, i know. i mostly listen to industrial music.

[myrtomagic]

my favourite bit starts at 0:27!

[ABBYDRYDEN]

I know nothing about music but this sounds beautiful

[foreverfriendsg]

Whoops I meant -3

[foreverfriendsg]

Great playing. -3

[LEOPARDTWO]

Power, passion, precision! *****

[0011486]

1 year has passed with classical music. This is still my favorite string quartet. Full of emotional intensity and a bittersweet beauty.

[simpleclass]

Vraiment bon pour un sountrack de film!!!

[Ibucrthis]

@simpleclass Heh, si ça t'intéresse, Woody Allen s'est servi du no.15 (que personnellement j'aime encore plus que celui-là) dans Crimes and Misdemeanors ('Crimes et délits') - Excellent film par ailleurs ;)

[animalo86]

who play?

[johnlotz42]

The romantic composers are basically the metal bands of the 1800s.

[EMDIESEL]

only 3 people disliked it. lol just 3

[Igneous01]

wow this piece vividly reminds me of beethovens great fugue quartet. altho they are very different in aspects, there chaotic emotive is practically parallel

[ame56173]

I am not really a music person but I am studying the play Death and the Maiden by Dorfman. This was the song playing during a scene in the play so I thought I should have a listen. Thanks for posting this vid.

[Artathela]

Ez egészen egyszerűen fantasztikus!!!

[Qwerty4594]

The play Death and The Maiden is amazing.

[maximus91206]

Astounding and breath taking

[imvn1]

do you know when they recorded this? thank you!

[JackSmith07]

@imvn1 that is a good question. has anyone given you an answer? i sure would like to know.

[RoLorenz]

I miss the 1817's ...

[zigifrojd]

@RoLorenz Wow, you are really old.

[haranoe]

@RoLorenz In Highbury, Vienna or Sankt Peterburg?

[mtnscu]

@RoLorenz Elleouwhelle.

But you can only miss the 1800's, the 1810's, the 1820's, etc., or the particular year 1817 (except if you are a schizo, in which case missing the "1817's" is perfectly all right...).

[VodKaLogic]

OMG! HOW CAN PEOPLE DISLIKE THIS?!?!

IS THERE NO MORE SANITY IN THIS WORLD?!??~??

D':<

[RedforVendetta]

@VodKaLogic

They just missed the right button.

[Kavbojus]

This is death metal played with different instruments

[BouledeNayge]

@Kavbojus Death metal is maybe Scubert played with different instruments, but Schubert's music is not death metal played with different instruments...

[Gonnakillyou]

@TheGizardOfDoom "Uncultured barbarians" don't have a monopoly on pigeonholing, sadly. Would make life a lot easier, but alas.

[ajww1308]

fantastic and powerful piece!!

[IwatchurvidEOhs]

so i might possibly play this for my school solo and ensamble. wish me luck!:)

[Crustaceans]

Reminds me of cobwebs and broken glass.

[MrChampu21]

Un excelente interpretación de este maravilloso cuarteto de Schubert.

Edgar Allan Poe dijo cierta vez "La muerte de una mujer hermosa es pues incuestionablemente el tema más poético del mundo, e igualmente está fuera de duda que los labios más adecuados para ese tema son los del amante en duelo"

[liraensith]

Thank you very much for uploading ! I like this version very much and I am very delighted by the fact that you put together the music of my favorite composer with one of my favorite painters.

[dalecampbl7]

this is one bad ass work, I LOVE IT!

[FancyPantsMannXD]

BAMF

[p3t3rVL12]

this music is kinda creepy after reading the book death and the maiden...

[hayleydimmick]

Love love love love love love love

[summonshire]

10:14 He is gasping for breath... Poor Schubert....

[summonshire]

What made me like this version better than the others is them holding the note here 02:52

[summonshire]

@summonshire I mean 02:50

[summonshire]

Man, no one can truly RIP before listening to this.

[summonshire]

Holy Cow! Just the first chord of this chilled me to the deepest nerves! A powerful sorrow and a pathetic joy. This piece definitely drove through me the composer's feelings and emotions when he composed this piece. Schubert rocks, yeah!

[classicalnut1]

schubert wrote a truly massive amout of music in his very, very short life (31 years)! his output includes more than 600 songs, and over 400 other works. yet he doesnt write anything without that charming genius that makes your ears perk up and say, 'hey, thats schubert!' his signature is in his music.

[lucaselucas]

and he has very little education.

[Blazetiger1111]

what is a redneck??????

(12 years old)

[gra4ever]

A redneck, is a man from country, who takes care of cows, horses and chickens.

[waldesjaeger2017]

@gra4ever and because he stays out all day his neck is red because of the sun ;)

[ombra004]

wonderful, both the quartet and Friedrich!

[Yesman812]

Love Schubert. Love Friedrech. Five well-earned stars.

[lollollol189]

WTF IS THIS!

[lollollol189]

1st, i'm not redneck.

2nd, i've been trying to find a different version of death and the maiden for about 2 weeks now, i think

[trenner75]

@lollollol189 you know how you found this one.. by searching it in the big 'search' bar at the top....

[zyphr4]

I'm redneck and I listen to this. Blows a little hole in your "rednecks don't listen to classy music," doesn't it?

[Spike2thewest]

@zyphr4

Listening to "classy" music to look cool among your inbred relatives?

If do you listen to classics, 'gratz for you, but that means you are no longer a redneck. My point stands firm.

[zyphr4]

@Spike2thewest Actually, I'm still a redneck. Your point fails. I like all kinds of music. What I listen to doesn't determine who/what I am. Deal with it.

[topshelfrj]

@Spike2thewest as a redneck i'm offended that you assume my taste in music lies in.... pop...

[lurxtlifeson]

ok, lol. it just showed up at the top of the comments page and wasn't connected to anything... i was just wondering what "fail" meant. this is my favorite string quartet lol

[lurxtlifeson]

???

[style2ouf7]

Un truc de ouf ce Schubert!!

[volaillecuite]

love the Friedrich's painting and the music

[cegaliano]

cierto, no puede compararse, es superior

[cwcascales]

And you can't be compared favorably to Bozo the Clown.

Why is it that idiots must always "compare" works of art to others?Just listen to this great music in its own context.

Schubert is not trying to be Beethoven or Mozart. He is giving us a beautiful gift. You either appreciate the gift or you don't.

Let us hear your great music.

[Montyleeny14]

Interesting how another painting is also called 'Death and the Maiden' and it was used in Zelenka's requiem (for the vid on youtube). Would have been more attractive to have both names combined throughout painting and music.

But anywho, the music is wonderous and quite ambiguous.

[HARMONICO101]

'Death and the Maiden' was a common art theme in the Renaissance and the writer of the lieder this was based on was reaching back to antiquity when he wrote his song.

I didn't put Schubert and Baldung together because they are too stylistically remote and therefore don't really match in my mind. The only thing they really have in common is the name.

[NukesnIvies]

I <3 schubert's music

[LizzieSpinelli]

*sigh* At the risk of sounding cliched, your face is boring.

[cwcascales]

No. It's you who are boring- and a moron.

[Chicagospalla]

Incredible playing by the Takacs Quartet.

[hegelei18]

I think its a painting from Caspar David Friedrich

[sagenough]

Is this a photograph or a painting that you posted with this recording? Could you reference it? Great music!

[HARMONICO101]

"The Abbey in the Oakwood" by Caspar David Friedrich.

[ayala586]

Thank you so much for posting this. It is the best pesrformance I've heard of this. Thrilling.

[Lesolin]

Man, I really love the Takács Quartet. I had the opportunity of playing in a masterclass for them and saw them perform some fantastic quartets.

Thanks for posting!

[mochariver598]

Do the title have any relation to your other video Zelenka's Requiem in C minor?.

[HARMONICO101]

Well I used a painting entitled "Death and the Maiden" for the Zelenka Requiem. "Death and the Maiden" was a common artistic motif in the Renaissance.