Schubert: Lied Edition 17 - Austrian Contemporaries, Vol. 2

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Cat No: 8557172

Release Date: 01 July 2004

Label: Naxos / Naxos Classics

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

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Barcode: 747313217229

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: SCHUBERT

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THE DEUTSCHE SCHUBERT-LIED-EDITIONIn 1816 Franz Schubert, together with his circle of friends,decided to publish a collection of all the songs which he had so far written.Joseph Spaun, whom Schubert had known since his school days, tried his (and Schubert's)luck in a letter to the then unquestioned Master of the German language, JohannWolfgang von Goethe: A selection of German songs will constitute the beginning ofthis edition; it will consist of eight volumes. The first two (the first ofwhich, as an example, you will find in our letter) contains poems written byyour Excellency, the third, poetry by Schiller, the fourth and fifth, works byKlopstock, the sixth by Mathison, Holty, Salis etc., the seventh and eighthcontain songs by Ossian, whose works are quite exceptional. The Deutsche Schubert-Lied-Edition follows the composer'soriginal concept. All Schubert's Lieder, over 700 songs, will be groupedaccording to the poets who inspired him, or according to the circle of writers,contemporaries, members of certain literary movements and so on, whose worksSchubert chose to set to music. Fragments and alternative settings, providingtheir length and quality make them worth recording, and works for two or morevoices with piano accompaniment will also make up a part of the edition. Schubert set the poetry of over 115 writers to music. Heselected poems from classical Greece, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, fromeighteenth-century German authors, early Romantics, Biedermeier poets,his contemporaries, and, of course, finally, poems by Heinrich Heine, althoughsadly the two never met. The entire edition is scheduled for completion by 2006.Thanks to the Neue Schubert Ausgabe (New Schubert Edition), published byBarenreiter, which uses primary sources - autograph copies wherever possible -the performers have been able to benefit from the most recent research of theeditorial team. For the first time, the listener and the interested reader canfollow Schubert's textual alterations and can appreciate the importance the writtenword had for the composer. The project's Artistic Advisor is the pianist UlrichEisenlohr, who has chosen those German-speaking singers who represent the eliteof today's young German Lieder singers, performers whose artistic contribution,he believes, will stand the test of time. Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828)Settings of Poems by Austrian Contemporaries, Vol. 2 In May 1821 Schubert received a letter from Johann LadislavPyrker, the Patriarch of Venice: 'Honoured Sir, I accept with the greaterpleasure your proposal to dedicate to me the fourth volume of your incomparablesongs, in that there often now return memories of that evening when I was somoved by the profundity of your mind, also explicitly expressed in the music ofyour Wanderer ...'. Ladislav Pyrker, born in 1773, had an important careerin the Church, as Abbot and then Archbishop. Throughout his life he wassocially engaged. In Karlsruhe and Gastein
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