DEATH and the Maiden Schubert Qtto Italiano (1/6)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGYFtzDV55I
Quartetto Italiano

The String Quartet in D minor was written in 1824 by Franz Schubert, just after the composer became aware of his ruined health. It is popularly known as the Death and the Maiden Quartet because the second movement is adapted from the piano accompaniment to Schubert's 1817 song (or lied), Death and the Maiden. In the numerical order of his quartets it is his String Quartet No. 14, and is D. 810 in Otto Erich Deutsch's thematic catalog of Schubert's works. The work is a string quartet in four movements:

Allegro, in D minor and common time
Andante con moto, in G minor and divided common (2/2) time
Scherzo: Allegro molto, in D minor and 3/4 time
Presto, in D minor in 6/8
The opening movement is, along with that of the preceding and next quartet and that of his string quintet, among the most extended and substantial in his chamber music output, if not in his output as a whole. It is a sonata form movement whose exposition encompasses three main key regions, D minor, F major and A minor.

The second movement is a theme — taken from his macabre song Der Tod und Das Mädchen (D 531 in Deutsch's catalog) — and five variations, with coda.

The third movement's main theme can also be heard in one of a set of piano dances; its lyrical D major trio varies its 'repeats'.

The relentless finale-tarantella is a sonata-rondo in form — a rondo whose first episode returns as the last, and whose central section contains elements of development. Its coda promises major-mode triumph, and snatches it away.

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[Havenscope]

Thank you so much for posting this. Schubert at his best.

[ombra004]

Ah, what a wonderful music, and the Quartetto Italiano is just extasys... I was so fortunate to listen to this same Schubert quartet by the same Quartetto in Naples, many years ago... a fine moment it was, I never forgot it.

[violinhunter2]

The tempos are nice and relaxed - not hurried at all. Great.

[1961gomez]

Come fanno ad essere sempre i migliori? Il Quartetto Italiano è Immortale,come i Musicisti che interpretano.

[lurxtlifeson]

I'm 17 years old and take italian in high school and learn from my grandparents who usually speak veneto. Just felt like writing it in italian since the song was "italian". and yes, I know I spelled Schubert wrong the first time lol.

[rozzera]

you made "a few" spelling mistakes ;) but the message got across. Good on you for the effort

[lurxtlifeson]

Che bel canzone. Scrivo in italion soltanto perche il nome di questa canzone e "Quartetto italiano". Questa frase e stupido, non so perche l'ho scrivato. Alora, mi piace Shubert! Io penso che questa e il migliore canzone di Schubert.

[blichilde]

Fabulous Quartetto Italiano.They were great.

This quartet is beautiful