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Clara Schumann - Piano Trio in g minor (Op.17).
I'm studying it so I can hopefully learn to play it.
My violin and cello-playing colleagues want to perform it at our next soiree (tentatively scheduled for next March).
I lobbied for the Schubert B-flat trio (D.898), but they said it was too difficult.
The Clara Schumann is not as exciting but probably more playable, and certainly very satisfying to listen to. She was definitely a talented composer. Hopefully her works can get some more attention.
Aldona
I'm studying it so I can hopefully learn to play it.
My violin and cello-playing colleagues want to perform it at our next soiree (tentatively scheduled for next March).
I lobbied for the Schubert B-flat trio (D.898), but they said it was too difficult.
The Clara Schumann is not as exciting but probably more playable, and certainly very satisfying to listen to. She was definitely a talented composer. Hopefully her works can get some more attention.
Aldona
“all great composers wrote music that could be described as ‘heavenly’; but others have to take you there. In Schubert’s music you hear the very first notes, and you know that you’re there already.” - Steven Isserlis
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Schumanns and Schubert = 19th century emo (especially works in minor keys, and songs dealing with death, betrayal, doom, madness, sorrow, unhappy love etc.)
My theory has always been = if you are drawn to a particular type of music, chances are that your personality is similar to that of the composer.
You obviously do not have depressive/ bipolar tendencies.
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My theory has always been = if you are drawn to a particular type of music, chances are that your personality is similar to that of the composer.
You obviously do not have depressive/ bipolar tendencies.
Aldona
“all great composers wrote music that could be described as ‘heavenly’; but others have to take you there. In Schubert’s music you hear the very first notes, and you know that you’re there already.” - Steven Isserlis
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Satisfying musical experience of the week...
Driving home from work just in time for sunset, through the Sherbrooke Forest...
(yes, on that exact road! Do a Google Images search on "Sherbrooke Forest, Melbourne" - this is what I travel through on my way to/from work)
...while listening to Schubert's "Nachtgesang im Walde", D.913 (Night Song in the Forest).
Very appropriate.
That's one of the pieces I have not had a chance to scan & upload yet.
Aldona
Driving home from work just in time for sunset, through the Sherbrooke Forest...
(yes, on that exact road! Do a Google Images search on "Sherbrooke Forest, Melbourne" - this is what I travel through on my way to/from work)
...while listening to Schubert's "Nachtgesang im Walde", D.913 (Night Song in the Forest).
Very appropriate.
That's one of the pieces I have not had a chance to scan & upload yet.
Aldona
“all great composers wrote music that could be described as ‘heavenly’; but others have to take you there. In Schubert’s music you hear the very first notes, and you know that you’re there already.” - Steven Isserlis