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17, composed in 1846) is Clara Schumann's first work for chamber ensemble, and one of her most ambitious works in any genre. On his thirty-seventh birthday on 6 June, he began work on the first of his three full-fledged trios (an earlier group of trio miniatures would be published in 1850 as four Phantasiestcke, Op. [2], Clara Schumann's compositions include 30 Lieder (songs), choral music, solo piano pieces, 1 piano concerto, chamber and orchestral works. Both of the Schumanns suffered during the composition of the trio. For a while at least. Again, however, Schumann gives us a tonal surprise by modulating to the remote key of B major for bar 222. Delving into Schumann's most famous pieces in engaging and accessible style, Donald Sanders provides insightful analysis for dedicated lovers of Schumann as well as newcomers to his musical innovations. 0000021548 00000 n
The sonata-form first movement is filled with Romantic ardor, from its urgent lyrical themes tinged with longing, to its vigorous contrapuntal development section, to its brief, driving coda. Here are some examples: I probably shouldnt be saying this, but you really dont need to know what all this musical jargon means. 0000041773 00000 n
Anne-Sophie Mutter joins her protg and Sony Classical artist, cellist Pablo Ferrndez, for this new recording of Brahms's bijoux Double Concerto and the unjustly neglected Piano Trio by Clara Schumann. %%EOF This paper traces the musical development of pianist and composer Clara Schumann (1819-1896) leading to the composition of the Piano Trio, Op. 1 (not her actual first compositions) had been published when she was 11 years old, to be followed by numerous other solo piano pieces and her Concerto. This is called a tonal surprise. Piano Trio in G minor, Op.17 (Schumann, Clara) Movements/Sections Mov'ts/Sec's: 4 movements Composition Year 1846 Genre Categories: . Like her to contemporaries, the virtuosi Anton Rubinstein and Sigismond Thalberg, Clara Schumann was a gifted pianist and one of the leading musicians of her day. The substantial first movement, Allegro moderato, could pass for one of her husband's with its stern yet somewhat yearning, lyrical first subject, and the second subject is lighter, chordal, and syncopated. 142 0 obj I bit my lip before replying. In 1926, Williams studied at the Royal College of Music under Gordon Jacobs and Ralph Vaughan . %PDF-1.7
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- Youtube videos - Analysis of each element - Questions to consider - Wider listening ideas with a task for students to . During the 1845-1846 season, pregnant with her fourth child, Clara was unable to tour as a concert pianist and so stayed home and put her new contrapuntal skills to work in a piano trio. Using this guide to Clara Schumanns Piano Trio in G minor, you can boost your grades with as little effort as possible! A good example is bars 29-30. <>/ExtGState<>/XObject<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/MediaBox[ 0 0 612 792] /Contents 4 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S/StructParents 0>>
During the transition, the music modulates. The short development section breaks into an animated fugue, but soon relaxes the fugal rules to vary the themes with greater freedom. The Scherzo in the tempo of a minuet is a surprisingly gentle movement, marked by playful dotted rhythms and a more lyrical trio. This is perhaps a touch melodramatic but it certainly is powerful! Engelmann and Clara Schumann. Hablas espaol? 146 0 obj 2 0 obj
Panicking because there are only a few months left until the exam? 17, written one year earlier. Piano Trio in G minor. Written in 1846, the Piano Trio in G minor, opus 17 by Clara Schumann was her only piano trio[1] and was composed during her stay in Dresden 1845-1846. her compositional ideas and works, including the piano trio, which was in fact
17. If I only achieve this muchthat you have nothing more to do with the publicI will have achieved my greatest aspiration. But despite her husbands controlling wishes, by 1842 Frau Schumann-ne-Wiecks career was again in full swing. Clara would have performed this core repertoire and this made the trio a natural outlet for her creativity. Grace Williams: Violin Sonata. However, she was a talented composer in her own right fairly obviously, otherwise we wouldnt be studying her for A Level! The second subject is in G major, the tonic major. HN@s,. features unique to her own compositional style. Clara Schumann (Leipzig, Germany - 1819-1896) Rather unjustly, Clara Schumann is often only associated with her famous husband Robert Schumann. All Rights Reserved. <<>> She made her piano debut at 11 and began her Piano Concerto in A Minor when she was 14. In Claras case, the reason was practical rather than artistic: During her marriage and especially after Roberts death, concert tours were the way she was able to support her large family, and they left her little time for anything else. Tickets cost 20,000 to 30,000 won. This study demonstrates that
Clara Schumann Piano Trio in G minor Op 17 (Mvt 1) // Friday Lunchtime Concert London Symphony Orchestra 197K subscribers Subscribe 169 13K views 3 years ago A live lunchtime concert from LSO. )?@faK#CJ9XMDQc:yU0x. On his thirty-seventh birthday on 6 June, he began work on the first of his three full-fledged trios (an earlier group of trio miniatures would be published in 1850 as four, From the Smithsonian Collection of Recordings. Happily, Claras trio was well received in its initial private performances, which may well have prompted the trio thoughts Robert recorded having near the beginning of June of 1847. The union was fiercely opposed by Claras father Friedrich, who had guided the pianistic development of both. 49, Schumann was twenty-nine, and embroiled in an effort to marry twenty-year-old Clara Wieck, whose career as a concert pianist was already firmly established. No crystal-ball required to predict our best-selling title of February - John Wilson's second album of English music for strings (featuring Howells's Concerto for string orchestra, Vaughan Williams's Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, Elgar's Introduction & Allegro and Delius . endobj Clara Schumanns Piano Trio, Op. This is one of the strongest chord progressions and clearly establishes the key of 1c. 80 & 88; Clara Wieck Schumann: Piano Trio, Op. I have tried to make all this information as concise as possible so you can get the best value for your time spent reading. Theirs was a passionate relationship, with music at the center . 17, 88 & 110, Music@Menlo 2011: Through Brahms Disc 6: Schumann, C. Schumann, Brahms, Clara Schumann: Trio in G minor, Op. Improvisation at the Piano - Brian Chung 2007-03-02 The amount of items that will be exported is indicated in the bubble next to export format. Like Robert, Clara here maintains a thick sound, but it's because all three instruments are playing contrapuntally much of the time, not because one is essentially doubling another's part, as was often the case with Robert. Instrumentation- piano, violin, and cello; genre- piano trio; 1846. Schumann's G minor Piano Trio belongs to a group of three chamber works composed in rapid succession in the autumn of 1851, at a time when the composer's relations with the Dsseldorf municipal orchestra, of which he had been director since 1849, had begun to sour. For more information . Until the mid-2000s, you could count commercial recordings of Clara Schumann's piano concerto (which she composed and premiered as Clara Wieck when still in her early teens) on one hand - the past few years, however, have seen an upswing in appreciation of the work itself and its composer in general, with Isata Kanneh-Mason, Barry Wordsworth and Gabriela Montero among those who've recently . While Clara was on tour in Paris shortly before their wedding, for example, Robert had written her: I have just read your letter in which you write, If I remain in Dresden for one year I will be forgotten as an artist . Claras Trio begins softly, but with a robust main theme with the kind of bold profile that lends itself to points of imitation and motivic development. trailer The first theme is nevertheless as dark as anything that has come earlier, whereas the second subject is more optimistic, even while alluding to the opening phrase of the slow movement. In the recapitulation, the first subject is in G minor, the tonic key. Clara Schumann's, "Piano trio in G Minor, Op. 1d forms the answer to 1cs question. Clara was already well known as a piano virtuoso when she married Robert. This acts as dominant preparation and clearly grounds us in Bb major. 17, of 1846 holds a contested place in the nineteenth-century repertory. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Your email address will not be published. Learn more. 143 0 obj November 2013: Piano Trio in G minor, op. 17; Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel: Trio d-moll Op. B. Streicher piano of 1846 from the Frederick Historic Piano Collection in conjunction with a 1670 violin by Andrea Guarneri and a cello by Carlo Antonio Testore, ca. Thanks to her constant touring, which almost always included performances of her own music, Clara was probably a better-known composer than Robert when they married. . 0000002084 00000 n The marriage to Robert was a huge part of Claras life, and I wanted to reflect that in the programme, says Kanneh-Mason. Most people know Clara Schumann today as the wife of composer Robert Schumann. JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Trio, piano, strings, op. It is more disjunct than previous melodic ideas, with a characteristic interval of a falling 4th. Luckily, there arent too many things to say about rhythm. 63, written the following year. <>/Border[0 0 0]/Rect[81.0 649.194 149.177 661.206]/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> Rhythms are simple but varied from measure to measure. 23, Clara Schumann & Fanny Mendelssohn Piano Trios, Clara Wieck-Schumann: Trio g-moll Op. Schumann is mindful of the Italian origin of the word "scherzo," meaning jest; this is a lighthearted piece, not the powerful, imposing fast movement preferred by Beethoven and his followers. 1 in G minor, Op. <>stream
But putting Robert first, caring for their growing family (eventually they would have eight children), and concert tours left little time for composing. This gorgeous chamber composition for violin, piano and cello has been called a "masterpiece" among Clara Schumann's works. Clara Schumann, ne Wieck, was born in Leipzig on 13 September 1819 and shot to fame as a child prodigy, performing in Paris, Vienna and across Europe in her teens. While in Norderney, Clara suffered from miscarriage. Im tentatively assuming most of the people reading this will already have the A Level Anthology of Music recommended by Edexcel. 5; Klaviertrio a-Moll, Op. Schumann completed the Op. 0000022095 00000 n
Thank goodness! For example, my First Symphony in B-flat Major was written in four days. Well, if not, re-read the structure section, as you will need to know all about them for this section. London Symphony Orchestra 196K subscribers Subscribe 34K views 5 years ago A-level seminars LSO Animateur Rachel Leach and LSO musicians analyse and perform the first movement of Clara. 0000031745 00000 n
As long as you can pinpoint the chord and know what it sounds like, youll be able to answer harmony questions easily! Felix Mendelssohns, Elijah, Op. Clara Schumann About this Piece Robert's own story had no such ending, as the Dsseldorf situation and his health - physical and mental - deteriorated together. It was completed during a difficult summer in Norderney, where they had gone to try to improve Robert's serious health problems. endobj of other successful composers and performers of her time, yet she had many selfdoubts
17: Third movement, Andante" February 24, 2015 Instrumentation- piano, violin, and cello; genre- piano trio; 1846 This piano trio has four movements instead of three, and contains two sonata-form outer movements, a scherzo second movement, and this slower third movement. It is her only published work comprised of all four movements that tradition demanded of a serious composition. For A Level we only study the first movement of the trio, although it has four movements in total. . Therefore, to stretch it out about, Schumann makes several stop-overs en route back to the relative major. Although she lived until she was 77, her composition all but stopped when she was 36 after her husband Robert tried to kill himself and was committed to an asylum. . Mary Akins MUSC 130-A21 Accomplish 15 February 25 th, 2023 Romantic Composers 1.) 0000008596 00000 n
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A wonderful work, the Trio demonstrates that while Clara shared Roberts musical sensibility, she was very much her own immense talent. 17 not only contains compositional traits that conform to the standards of the nineteenth century piano trio but also features unique to her own compositional style. Only from the year 1845, when I began to invent and work out everything in my head, did a completely new method of composition begin to develop. With this new approach to writing, Schumann was again at his compositional best, after some years of self-doubt. Robert Schumann with an analysis of works from the most important genres in which he worked. <>/Border[0 0 0]/Rect[145.74 211.794 223.476 223.806]/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> She wrote it in the summer of 1846, during a traumatic period of her somewhat turbulent life. The history of the two works is interesting. Your email address will not be published. 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