Songs
Herbst
(1828)
D945
Herbst
Es rauschen die WindeSo herbstlich und kalt;Verödet die Fluren,Entblättert der Wald.Ihr blumigen Auen!Du sonniges Grün!So welken die BlütenDes Lebens dahin.Es ziehen die WolkenSo finster und grau;Verschwunden die SterneAm himmlischen Blau!Ach, wie die GestirneAm Himmel entflieh’n,So sinket die HoffnungDes Lebens dahin!Ihr Tage des LenzesMit Rosen geschmückt,Wo ich die GeliebteAn’s Herze gedrückt!Kalt über den HügelRauscht, Winde, dahin!So sterben die RosenDer Liebe dahin!
Autumn
The wind blowswith an autumnal chill;the meadows are bare,the woods leafless.Flowering meadows;sunlit green!Thus do life’s blossomswilt.The clouds drift by,so sombre and grey;the stars have vanishedin the blue heavens.Ah, as the stars disappearin the sky,so does life’s hopefade away.You days of spring,adorned with roses,when I pressedmy beloved to my heart.Winds, blow coldover the hillside!So do the rosesof love die.
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Composer
Franz Peter Schubert was an late Classical and early Romantic composer. He produced a vast oeuvre during his short life, composing more the 600 vocal works (largely Lieder), and well as several symphonies, operas, and a large body of piano music. He was uncommonly gifted from a young age, but appreciation of his music was limited during his lifetime. His work became more popular in the decades after his death, and was praised by 19th century composers, including Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, and Liszt.
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Poet
Heinrich Friedrich Ludwig Rellstab was a German poet and music critic. He was born and died in Berlin. He was the son of the music publisher and composer Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab. An able pianist, he published articles in various periodicals, including the influential liberal Vossische Zeitung, and launched the music journal Iris im Gebiete der Tonkunst, which was published in Berlin from 1830 to 1841. His outspoken criticism of the influence in Berlin of Gaspare Spontini landed him in jail in 1837.
Rellstab had considerable influence as a music critic and, because of this, had some power over what music could be used for German nationalistic purposes in the mid-nineteenth century. Because he had "an effective monopoly on music criticism" in Frankfurt and the popularity of his writings, Rellstab's approval would have been important for any musician's career in areas in which German nationalism was present.
The first seven songs of Franz Schubert's Schwanengesang have words by Rellstab, who had left them in 1825 with Beethoven, whose assistant Anton Schindler passed them on to Schubert. His work was also set to music by Franz Liszt.
He is also known to have given Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27/2 its famous nickname Moonlight Sonata.
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Previously performed at:
- 19 Oct 2021: 74. VENUE AND ARTIST CHANGE On the River
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- 23 May 2021: Oxford Lieder at Fairlight Hall: Anna Cavaliero & Sholto Kynoch - A Schu...
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- 21 May 2021: Oxford Lieder at Rye Creative Centre: Anna Cavaliero & Sholto Kynoch - A...
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- 18 May 2021: A Schubertiade: The Seasons in Song (second performance)
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- 18 May 2021: A Schubertiade: The Seasons in Song (first performance)
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Herbst
Autumn
If you would like to use our texts and translations, please click here for more information.
Composer
Franz Peter Schubert was an late Classical and early Romantic composer. He produced a vast oeuvre during his short life, composing more the 600 vocal works (largely Lieder), and well as several symphonies, operas, and a large body of piano music. He was uncommonly gifted from a young age, but appreciation of his music was limited during his lifetime. His work became more popular in the decades after his death, and was praised by 19th century composers, including Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, and Liszt.
Information from Wikipedia. Read more here.
See Full Entry
Poet
Heinrich Friedrich Ludwig Rellstab was a German poet and music critic. He was born and died in Berlin. He was the son of the music publisher and composer Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab. An able pianist, he published articles in various periodicals, including the influential liberal Vossische Zeitung, and launched the music journal Iris im Gebiete der Tonkunst, which was published in Berlin from 1830 to 1841. His outspoken criticism of the influence in Berlin of Gaspare Spontini landed him in jail in 1837.
Rellstab had considerable influence as a music critic and, because of this, had some power over what music could be used for German nationalistic purposes in the mid-nineteenth century. Because he had "an effective monopoly on music criticism" in Frankfurt and the popularity of his writings, Rellstab's approval would have been important for any musician's career in areas in which German nationalism was present.
The first seven songs of Franz Schubert's Schwanengesang have words by Rellstab, who had left them in 1825 with Beethoven, whose assistant Anton Schindler passed them on to Schubert. His work was also set to music by Franz Liszt.
He is also known to have given Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27/2 its famous nickname Moonlight Sonata.
Taken from Wikipedia. To view the full article, please click here.
See Full Entry
Sorry, no further description available.
Previously performed at:
- 19 Oct 2021: 74. VENUE AND ARTIST CHANGE On the River
- 23 May 2021: Oxford Lieder at Fairlight Hall: Anna Cavaliero & Sholto Kynoch - A Schu...
- 21 May 2021: Oxford Lieder at Rye Creative Centre: Anna Cavaliero & Sholto Kynoch - A...
- 18 May 2021: A Schubertiade: The Seasons in Song (second performance)
- 18 May 2021: A Schubertiade: The Seasons in Song (first performance)