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    Franz Schubert: King of Lieder: Presentation by Jenelle Magbutay

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    Franz Schubert was an Austrian composer known as the "King of Lieder". He began composing art songs called lieder at age 17, setting the standard. Though he died of typhoid fever at only 31, Schubert was incredibly prolific and wrote over 600 lieder in a variety of styles. His most famous include "Erlkönig", which tells the story of a father and son encountering the Elf King through the music. Schubert is renowned for popularizing the lied by setting famous German poems to music and hosting musical salons to share his works.

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    Franz Schubert was an Austrian composer known as the "King of Lieder". He began composing art songs called lieder at age 17, setting the standard. Though he died of typhoid fever at only 31, Schubert was incredibly prolific and wrote over 600 lieder in a variety of styles. His most famous include "Erlkönig", which tells the story of a father and son encountering the Elf King through the music. Schubert is renowned for popularizing the lied by setting famous German poems to music and hosting musical salons to share his works.

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    Franz Schubert was an Austrian composer known as the "King of Lieder". He began composing art songs called lieder at age 17, setting the standard. Though he died of typhoid fever at only 31, Schubert was incredibly prolific and wrote over 600 lieder in a variety of styles. His most famous include "Erlkönig", which tells the story of a father and son encountering the Elf King through the music. Schubert is renowned for popularizing the lied by setting famous German poems to music and hosting musical salons to share his works.

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    Franz Schubert: King of Lieder: Presentation by Jenelle Magbutay

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    Franz Schubert was an Austrian composer known as the "King of Lieder". He began composing art songs called lieder at age 17, setting the standard. Though he died of typhoid fever at only 31, Schubert was incredibly prolific and wrote over 600 lieder in a variety of styles. His most famous include "Erlkönig", which tells the story of a father and son encountering the Elf King through the music. Schubert is renowned for popularizing the lied by setting famous German poems to music and hosting musical salons to share his works.

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    FRANZ SCHUBERT:

    KING OF LIEDER
    PRESENTATION BY JENELLE MAGBUTAY
    A SHORT, BUT
    FRUITFUL LIFE
    EARLY YEARS
    • Born in Himmelpfortgrund, Austria (near Vienna) in 1797

    • Studied with fellow composer Antonio Salieri after dropping out of


    college (1812-1815)

    • Continued as a schoolmaster until 1818 because of writer’s block, went


    on as music master to two daughters of Count Esterházy in Hungary

    • At 17, wrote his first masterpiece called “Gretchen und Spinnrande”


    (Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel) setting music to a poem by popular
    German writer Goethe, and creating the standard for the German lied
    (art song)

    • Songs became so popular, Schubertiaden parties were thrown to


    appreciate his music in the homes of the wealthy
    A SHORT, BUT
    FRUITFUL LIFE
    “LATER” YEARS
    • In 1822, Schubert contracted a venereal disease (probably syphilis) and had to
    retire from his work as a music master.

    • Spent his retirement unsuccessfully trying to break into the opera world,
    eventually wrote his famous arrangement of the Ave Maria

    • Final years, composed his famous song cycles Winterreise (Winter Journey) and
    Schwanengesang (Swan Song)

    • Died of typhoid fever after drinking tainted water in 1828 at just 31 years old
    WHAT IS A
    GERMAN LIED?
    • Literally “German Song”, used to refer to
    German voice/piano songs of the 19th century
    (Romantic Period)
    • Standalone pieces that contain a story within
    themselves
    • Piano does not just accompany, but also helps in
    storytelling (Gretchen am Spinnrade)
    • Composers would take pre-existing poetry (most
    famously Goethe) and set music to it, the text
    usually chosen for emotional tone rather than
    eloquence
    • Schubert created the standard of lieder and is the
    most well known composer of it, totaling 600
    ERLKÖNIG - THE
    ELF KING (1815)
    • About a boy and his father traveling home on
    horseback, the boy begins to see and hear the Elf
    King but the father does not believe him. The Elf
    King tries to entice the boy to come with him and
    ends up attacking him. The boy exclaims that
    he’s been attacked and the father stops his horse
    and the boy dies in his father’s arms.
    • Four characters played by one vocalist: narrator,
    father, son, and the Elf King
    • Each character has own “voice”
    •

    • Narrator = middle range/minor


    •
    PAINTINGFather = Low range/major and minor
    - THE ERLKING BY ALBERT STERNER, CA 1910
    ERLKÖNIG - THE
    ELF KING (1815)
    What To Listen For:
    • Piano rapidly playing triplets to simulate a horse
    galloping
    • Each plea of the son character becomes louder
    and higher in pitch
    • Towards the end of the piece, music slows down
    at the end to simulate the horse being stopped
    and arriving
    • Piano stops symbolize the father realizing his son
    is dead
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS91p-vmSf0

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