Schubert: Lied Edition 8 - Schiller, Vol. 2

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Cat No: 8554741

Release Date: 01 April 2002

Label: Naxos / Naxos Classics

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

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Barcode: 636943474129

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: SCHUBERT

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THE DEUTSCHE SCHUBERT-LIED-EDITIONIn 1816 Franz Schubert, together with hiscircle of friends, decided to publish a collection of all the songs which hehad so far written. Joseph Spaun, whom Schubert had known since his schooldays, tried his (and Schubert's) luck in a letter to the then unquestionedMaster of the German language, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:A selectionof German songs will constitute the beginning of this edition; it will consistof eight volumes. The first two (the first of which, as an example, you willfind in our letter) contains poems written by your Excellency, the third,poetry by Schiller, the fourth and fifth, works by Klopstock, the sixth byMathison, Holty, Salis etc., the seventh and eighth contain songs by Ossian,whose works are quite exceptional.The Deutsche Schubert-Lied-Edition follows thecomposer's original concept. All Schubert's Lieder,over 700 songs, will be grouped according to the poets who inspiredhim, or according to the circle of writers, contemporaries, members of certainliterary movements and so on, whose works Schubert chose to set to music.Fragments and alternative settings, providing their length and quality makethem worth recording, and works for two or more voices with piano accompanimentwill also make up a part of the edition.Schubert set the poetry of over 115 writers tomusic. He selected poems from classical Greece, the Middle Ages and theRenaissance, from eighteenth-century German authors, early Romantics, Biedermeier poets, his contemporaries,and, of course, finally, poems by Heinrich Heine, although sadly the two nevermet.The entire edition is scheduled for completionby 2005. Thanks to the Neue Schubert Ausgabe(New Schubert Edition), published by Barenreiter, which uses primarysources -autograph copies wherever possible -the performers have been able tobenefit from the most recent research of the editorial team. For the firsttime, the listener and the interested reader can follow Schubert' s textualalterations and can appreciate the importance the written word had for thecomposer.The project's Artistic Advisor is the pianistUlrich Eisenlohr, who has chosen those German-speaking singers who representthe elite of today's young German Lieder singers, performers whose artistic contribution,he believes, will stand the test of time.Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828) Settings ofpoems by Schiller, Vol. 2When in 1787 Friedrich Schiller first visitedWeimar, the residence of Duke Karl August and a place so important in Germancultural history, it was because of the 'three Weimar giants', Christoph MartinWieland, the elegant poet of the rococo, the court preacher Johann GottfriedHerder, and, naturally, the youngest and most charismatic of these 'giants',Goethe, who was then on his famous Italian journey. Today Goethe and Schillerare the embodiment of the Weimar classical period.Schiller was the son of an officer and wasborn in 1759 at Marbach-am-Neckar, not far from the magnificent capital ofW??rttemberg at Ludwigs
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