FRANZ SCHUBERT AVE MARIA COMPOSED SERIES

We have made our best to offer you a good quality product that we hope will fully satisfy your artistic expectations. The original score has been improved by adding bar numbers o rehearsal letters, page turns, and correcting some minor misprints. Pages: 16 About our products: You are purchasing a newly typeset edition of the original work, made from a public domain first rate edition or the composer's manuscript.

Publication and Edition: Influx Sheet Music If you need a transposition to another key, please contact us. This edition includes the original version in Bb major and also the transpositions to A major, Ab major and G major. 6) by Franz Schubert, for solo voice and piano (composed on Walter Schott's 'The Lady of the Lake'). With little money and nothing much more than his 'groupies' to support him, Schubert began to produce a seemingly endless stream of masterpieces that for the most part were left to posterity to discover, including the two great song cycles, Die Schone Mullerin and Winterreise, the Eighth ('Unfinished') and Ninth ('Great') Symphonies, the Octet for Wind, the last three string quartets, the two piano trios, the String Quintet, the 'Wanderer' Fantasy and the last six sonatas for solo piano.ĭuring 1815 alone, Schubert composed over 140 masterly song settings - including the unforgettable 'Erlkonig' - although he was still only 18 at the time.About the work: This is a new engraving of the original version of the Ave Maria D.839 (also known as Ellens dritten Gesang 'Hymne an die Jungfrau' Op. Musical soirees known as Schubertiads became all the rage, during which Schubert might sing some of his own songs while accompanying himself at the piano. This period of intense creative activity remains one of the most inexplicable feats of productivity in musical history.

FRANZ SCHUBERT AVE MARIA COMPOSED SERIES

While Schubert was still struggling to hold down his full-time teaching post, he not only composed 145 lieder (songs), the Second and Third Symphonies, two sonatas and a series of miniatures for solo piano, two mass settings and other shorter choral works, four stage works, and a string quartet, in addition to various other projects.

The same year he began teaching - 1814 - he produced his first indisputable masterpiece, 'Gretchen am Spinnrade' ('Gretchen at her spinning wheel'). This was at once a calamitous move and a blessing, for it was Schubert's deep loathing of the school environment that finally lit the touchpaper of his creative genius. Beyond the song as originally composed by Schubert, it is often performed and recorded by many singers under the title 'Ave Maria' (the Latin name of the prayer Hail Mary, and also the opening words and refrain of Ellen's song, a song which is itself a prayer to the Virgin Mary), in musically simplified arrangements and with various lyrics that. Franz Schubert (1797–1828) was an Austrian romantic composer and although he died at the age of 31, he was a prolific composer, having written some 600 lieder and nine symphonies.Īged 10, the young Schubert won a place in the Vienna Imperial Court chapel choir and quickly gained a reputation as a budding composer with a set of facile string quartets.Īfter leaving chapel school and having completed the year's mandatory training, Schubert followed his father into the teaching profession. It is one of Schubert's most popular works.

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