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The Symphony No. 4 in C minor, D 417, is a symphony by Franz Schubert completed in April 1816 [1] when Schubert was 19 years old, a year after his Third Symphony However, it was not premiered until November 19, 1849, in Leipzig, more than two decades after Schubert's death. [2] The symphony was called the Tragic (German: Tragische) by its composer.
The Symphony No. 3 in E ♭ major, Op. 97, also known as the Rhenish, is the last symphony composed by Robert Schumann, although not the last published.It was composed from 2 November to 9 December 1850 and premiered on 6 February 1851 in Düsseldorf, conducted by Schumann himself, [1] and was received with mixed reviews, "ranging from praise without qualification to bewilderment".
The piece is known as the Trout because the fourth movement is a set of variations on Schubert's earlier Lied "Die Forelle" ("The Trout").The quintet was written for Sylvester Paumgartner, a wealthy music patron and amateur cellist from Steyr, Upper Austria, who also suggested that Schubert include a set of variations on the Lied. [1]
Dramatic chords from the first movement also reappear in the finale. Tovey described the overall structure as "possibly Schumann's greatest and most masterly conception". [5] The scherzo borrows a theme from Symphony No. 1 in F minor, Op. 7 (1824) by Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda (1801–1866), whom Schumann admired. [6]
The work now called the Second Symphony (1846) is structurally the most classical of the four and is influenced by Beethoven and Schubert. [116] The Third Symphony (1851), known as the Rhenish, is, unusually for a symphony of its day, in five movements, and is the composer's nearest approach to pictorial symphonic music, with movements ...
D 417, Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Tragic (1816) D 485, Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major (1816) D 589, Symphony No. 6 in C major, Little C major (1817–1818) There is also an early unfinished symphony: D 2B, Symphony in D major [formerly D 997] (1811?, fragment of the first movement is extant)
Op. 117, 4 Husarenlieder of N. Lenau (for baritone) (1851) Op. 118, Drei Sonaten für die Jugend (Three Piano Sonatas for the Young) (1853) Op. 119, 3 Gedichte from Die Waldliedern of S. Pfarrius (1851) Op. 120, Symphony No. 4 in D minor (1841; revised in 1851) Op. 121, Violin Sonata No. 2 in D minor (1851)
Schubert's Opus 1: "Erlkönig", D 328, fourth version, was published by Diabelli as Schubert's "1 tes Werk" (first work) in 1821.The Lied, composed by Schubert in 1815, was later adopted along with its prior versions as No. 178 in Series XX, Vol. 3 of the AGA (1895), and in Series IV, Vol. 1 of the NSE (1970).