Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . man voice (AekrilicJikeit nut dem StiMmorgan) of these orchestral parts. Although these two symphonies are by far Schuberts best, it is a pitythat they alone should be deemed worthy a place on our concert have played the sixth, in C major, and No. 5, in B major, a dozen timeswith my orchestral pupils at the National Conservatory; they shared mypleasure in them, and at once recognized their great beauty. It was with great pleasure and feelings of gratitude that I read notlong ago of the performance in Berlin of the B major symphony by Her
Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . man voice (AekrilicJikeit nut dem StiMmorgan) of these orchestral parts. Although these two symphonies are by far Schuberts best, it is a pitythat they alone should be deemed worthy a place on our concert have played the sixth, in C major, and No. 5, in B major, a dozen timeswith my orchestral pupils at the National Conservatory; they shared mypleasure in them, and at once recognized their great beauty. It was with great pleasure and feelings of gratitude that I read notlong ago of the performance in Berlin of the B major symphony by HerrW eingartner, one of the few conductors who have had the courage to putthis youthful work on their programs. Schuberts fourth symphony, too,is an admirable composition. It bears the title of Tragic Symphony, and 126 FRANZ SCHUBERT was written at the age of nineteen, about a year after the Erl Itmakes one maiwel that so young a composer should have had the power togive utterance to such deep pathos. In the adagio there are chords that. BY PERMISSION OF A. F. CZIHAKS SUCCESSORS, VIENNA. STROLLING-PLACE OF THE VIENNA MASTERS. strikingly suggest the anguish of Tristans utterances; nor is this the onlyplace wherein Schubert is prophetic of Wagnerian harmonies. And al-though in some degree anticipated by Gluck and Mozart, he was one ofthe first to make use of an effect to which Wagner and other modern com-posers owe many of their most beautiful orchestral colors — the employ-ment of the brass, not for noise, but played softly, to secure rich andwarm tints. The richness and variety of coloring in the great Sjanphony in C areastounding. It is a work which always fascinates, always remains has the effect of gathering clouds, with constant glimpses of sunshinebreaking through them. It illustrates also, like most of Schuberts com-positions, the truth of an assertion once made to me by Dr. Hans Richter—that the greatest masters always reveal their genius most unmistakabl
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