Schubert: String Quartets Nos. 2, 6 And 11

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Cat No: 8557107

Release Date: 06 January 2003

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

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Barcode: 747313210725

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: SCHUBERT

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Franz Schubert (1797-1828)String Quartet No. 6 in D major String Quartet No. 11 in Emajor String Quartet No.2 in C majorFranz Schubert was born in 1797, the son of a Viennaschoolmaster, and had his education as a chorister of the Imperial Chapel atthe Staatskonvikt. Both at school and at home he had an active musical life asa player and as a composer, and when his voice broke and he was offered themeans to continue his academic education, he decided instead to train as ateacher, thus being able to devote more time to music. By the age of eighteenhe had joined his father in the schoolroom, while continuing to compose and tostudy with the old Court Kapellmeister Antonio Salieri. In 1816 he moved awayfrom home, lodging with his new friend, Franz von Schober, thus released forthe moment from the drudgery of teaching. The following years found himgenerally in the company of friends, with an occasional return to theschoolroom when necessity dictated, showing there no great talent or interestin his task.Schubert's brief career continued in Vienna and while therewere occasional commissions and some of his works were published, there wasnever the opportunity for the kind of distinguished patronage that Beethovenhad had and still enjoyed, nor the possibility of an official position in themusical establishment of the city. It was February 1828 before Schubert was ableto take the risk of a concert devoted to his work, an event that proved bothsuccessful and profitable, but by the autumn his health had weakened, theconsequence of a venereal infection contracted six years earlier. He died on19th November.As a composer Schubert was both precocious and prolific.Over the years he wrote some five hundred songs and a quantity of piano andchamber music, including fifteen string quartets, with larger scale works forthe theatre and for orchestra, although he never had a professional orchestraregularly available to him, as Haydn had had by the nature of his employment asa princely Kapellmeister, or as Beethoven had through the good offices of hisrich patrons. He was able to hear his orchestral compositions in performancesby an ensemble that had developed over the years from the Schubert familystring quartet, while chamber music on occasions received professionalattention, notably from Schuppanzigh and his colleagues. Schubert himself wasboth pianist and string-player and as a boy had played the viola in the familyquartet, where his father played the cello and his older brothers the violin.The language of the classical string quartet had long been familiar to him.The composition of the String Quartet in D major, D.74, wasseemingly started on 22nd August 1813 and completed in the following month,during which he composed his cantata for his father's name-day, an event forwhich the quartet was also intended. It was in September that he was offeredthe scholarship that would have allowed him to continue his academic education,an offer eventually rejected. The first subject
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