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	Medialunchbox - Music : Schubert: Trout Quintet, Death and the Maiden / Amadeus Quartet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		String Quartet In D Minor 'Death And The Maiden' D 810: 2.
		String Quartet In D Minor 'Death And The Maiden' D 810: 3.
		String Quartet In D Minor 'Death And The Maiden' D 810: 4.
	www.medialunchbox.com /ItemId/B000001GXF (311 words)

	Death and the Maiden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Death and the Maiden, an old motif in art and literature
		Death and the Maiden, an 1824 string quartet composed by Franz Schubert
		Death and the Maiden, a 1916 painting by Egon Schiele
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Death_and_the_Maiden (147 words)

	Shanghai Quartet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		He wrote the String Quartet in D Minor, D.810, “Death and the Maiden,” in March 1824, and it was first performed in February 1826.
		Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden” Quartet had its Carnegie Hall premiere in Chamber Music Hall (now Weill Recital Hall) on December 6, 1891, with the New York Symphony String Quartet: Adolph Brodsky and Jules Conus, violins; Jan Koert, viola; and Anton Hekking, cello.
		Schubert’s most famous quartet, known today as “Death and the Maiden,” was one of a series of three that he began to sketch out in 1824.
	www.carnegiehall.org /textSite/box_office/events/evt_5208.html (2051 words)

	Franz Schubert : Death and the Maiden - Scherzo from the String Quartet in Dm : Classical Online Sheet Music
		Franz Schubert : Scherzo from "Death and the Maiden" String Quartet in Dm Among many String Quartets written by Franz Schubert, one of his most famous is called "Death and the Maiden".
		Schubert had earlier composed a song called "Death and the Maiden" whose text is by Matthias Claudius.
		The second movement of this quartet is a set of variations based on the theme from the song which is why it bears this title.
	mfiles.co.uk /scores/death-and-the-maiden3.htm (215 words)

	Artek Recordings - Classical
		Schubert’s reawakened interest in the medium of the string quartet may well have resulted from his recent acquaintance with the newly reformed Schuppanzigh Quartet.
		Schubert had first featured a similar eruption in the second section of his ‘Wanderer’ Fantasy, and he was to explore the idea further in the slow movements of his late piano sonatas.
		Yet Schubert was not in the habit of carrying through to fruition pieces that either did not fulfil their intended function, or that he felt were taking a false direction.
	www.artekrecordings.com /artek/CD9contents.htm (1553 words)

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		There is much in Schubert's music that expresses discontent with life as it is. This discontent is especially marked in the darkest works such as the Piano Sonata in A Minor, D. There is nothing like the brisk funeral march atmosphere of its main theme that beats like a sledgehammer to cheer one up.
		Schubert, like Mozart will do just that, with the result that the listener hears no way out of the troubled emotions depicted in the work.
		One of my favorite Schubert works is the Sonata in G Major, D. In this work, the heavenly, visionary element is predominant although each of the four movements includes significant turbulence.
	andrewmarr.homestead.com /files/music/schubert.htm (1308 words)

	Norbert Brainin interview
		These quartets, from a stylistic standpoint, were still chamber music—I really don’t like the term “chamber music”; I’d prefer to speak of the “small ensemble” style—but they are nevertheless equivalent to a great symphony, from the standpoint of their content and length.
		Shortly before that, Schubert had completed his C Major Symphony; actually, it was supposed to have been the centerpiece of this concert, but the orchestra members, who at that time were mostly amateurs, could not (or, would not) learn their parts in such a short time, and so the symphony was dropped.
		You said that in his quartets, he was practicing for the symphony—that is, he was studying the art of applying four-part polyphony on a symphonic scale—an art which Beethoven had brought to a pinnacle...
	www.schillerinstitute.org /fid_97-01/fid_972xview_brain.html (3236 words)

	S A N \| F R A N C I S C O \| C L A S S I C A L \| V O I C E
		I refer to the experiment on the part of the Emerson String Quartet, ongoing since January of this year: they are standing instead of sitting, with the exception of cellist David Finckel, of course.
		Schubert's Death and the Maiden quartet is a marathon, with technical obstacles.
		The Emerson Quartet’s interpretation convinces, and while more dynamic contrast could have been offered, particularly in the first movement, the group’s direction and commitment could not be faulted.
	www.sfcv.org /arts_revs/emerson_10_8_02.php (634 words)

	Classical Notes - Classical Classics - Schubert: Trout Quintet, Death and the Maiden Quartet, Wanderer Fantasy, By ...
		Schubert, though, often wrote songs in a matter of hours and rarely spent more than a few weeks on even a full opera; thus, he composed so rapidly that each of his works is a valid snapshot of his fleeting psyche.
		The scherzo is a grotesque dance of death, sharp and offbeat, with a gruff sort of allure.
		While the Melos Quartet's 1975 Maiden is rather mellow and light-weight, it's paired on DG Universal with a superlative Trout by James Levine (the conductor sitting in on the ivories), Gerhart Hetzel and Alois Posch (of the Vienna Philharmonic) and
	www.classicalnotes.net /classics/trout.html (1919 words)

	World Economic Forum Knowledge Navigator - Sustaining Creative Excellence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The presentation was a montage of words and musical extracts from the quartet repertoire, chosen to illustrate problem-solving in the context of interpreting the music.
		The breakthrough came with Schubert's "Death and the Maiden" quartet, which, according to Robertson, the Medici players had never played to their satisfaction.
		The reason was that "Death and the Maiden" is both structurally taught and highly emotionally charged.
	www.weforum.org /site/knowledgenavigator.nsf/Content/_S3247?open (606 words)

	The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
		Many music lovers are still talking about the foursome’s extraordinary traversal (in 2000) of Beethoven’s complete string quartets in a series of free concerts at Alice Tully Hall, presented in conjunction with CMS to support community arts organizations contributing to the lives of children in New York City.
		The seriousness of his First String Quartet (1930) surprised many of its first listeners, who were accustomed to thinking of Prokofiev as an irreverent “bad boy”; but close listening reveals a piece that does not lack for wit, even if it often veers towards gallows humor.
		Posth, "Death and the Maiden", movement 1, Allegro vivace
	www.chambermusicsociety.org /events/performance_detail.php?id=150 (253 words)

	Entertainment Reviews: Borromeo players meet challenge
		Separated by 80 years, the Schubert work represents the peak of romanticism, while the Schoenberg could be said to represent the last gasps of the romantic era.
		Schoenberg claimed that this quartet had no elements of "program" music as in some of his earlier works and that the quartet music was "absolute." Yet, a lately discovered sketchbook from the year of its composition contained such programmatic references as "revolt," "defiance," "longing," "rapture" and so on.
		Schubert’s "Death and the Maiden" quartet is so titled because the composer took a theme from an earlier song for the second movement; Schubert did not name it such.
	www.capecodonline.com /cctimes/edits/cctblogs/reviews/archives/000765.htm (542 words)

	Core Sudies 2.2 - Brooklyn College of CUNY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		This quartet gets its name from the second movement of the piece (not heard here) which is a series of variations on one of Schubert's songs (in other words, don't think of death or maidens while listening to this selection!).
		Schubert wrote hundreds of songs for voice and piano, and occasionally used their melodies in instrumental works.
		This is an example of a string quartet, a phrase used to describe both a genre of classical works and the ensemble that plays them.
	academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /music/jtaylor/death.htm (210 words)

	JS Online: Chamber festival proves a spellbinder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Violinists Hanford and Lise McDonough, violist Rita Porfiris and cellist Johner's unerring sense of drama and intensely alert interaction held the capacity audience spellbound throughout.
		The mix of voices was uncommonly close in balance and called attention to the remarkable invention Schubert brought to accompanying voices.
		"Death and the Maiden" demands much of everyone involved, and the strain began to show some in the Presto finale.
	www.jsonline.com /onwisconsin/music/jul01/milcham27072601.asp?format=print (399 words)

	Schubert's Tuneful Chamber Music
		Although Schubert walked this earth only a third as long as he might have had he not contracted a venereal disease, he wrote three times as many pieces as most composers create in a very full lifetime.
		Whether Schubert put the song in the quintet by request or just because he knew that the man who was paying the piper liked the tune, I do not know.
		Schubert was in very bad health at the time and was thinking about his own death.
	www.compactdiscoveries.com /CompactDiscoveriesScripts/23SchubertChamberMusic.html (1523 words)

	Schubert Quartet and Dvorak Quartet Death And The Maiden And Also American by Karl Lozier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Mahler once performed Schubert's Quartet in D Minor, "Death and the Maiden's" slow movement at an orchestral concert.
		String quartets such as this one by Dvorak, traditionally are scored for two violins, one viola and a cello.
		If you want just a bit more than a string quartet, Dvorak is well known for his works that add a piano to the strings with a result being piano quartets and quintets.
	www.enjoythemusic.com /magazine/music/1103/schubert.htm (731 words)

	Calder Quartet's S.F. debut a bit off
		This young string quartet is based in Los Angeles, where it has garnered a lot of admiring attention, presumably on the basis of stronger efforts than Tuesday's.
		The all-Schubert program presented as a gift concert for subscribers to San Francisco Performances was mostly a collection of thin ensemble textures, undercooked interpretations and plain old wrong notes.
		The "Death and the Maiden" Quartet, which occupied the first half, sounded understated to a fault, as though the ensemble were not so much giving a performance as running through the piece in rehearsal -- and in the next room at that.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/03/31/DDGROC0GOI1.DTL&type=printable (279 words)

	Sparks of Feeling
		The logical mind must be having a terribly strong hold of the person for this to happen - and perhaps, we are too dumb and insensate for annihilation of the soul to occur upon listening to this trio.
		Again at the trio of the Rosamunde Quartet - there was this brief period when I saw that Schubert had indeed seen it all, and I saw it with him.
		Schubert is always the test of how alive I am: if DSM does not elicit a response, then I am temporarily dead.
	www.geocities.com /the2wolf_com/sof.html (3127 words)

	2popular 2be 4gotten, quartets take the stage
		The quartet's residencies range from Tanglewood to Ravinia, and the players are all faculty members at the University of Richmond.
		Quartets are not limited to strings, and the musicians of the Poné Ensemble generate several interesting foursomes and a couple of duos for the last program in their series at 8 tonight at New Paltz Methodist Church.
		On the Poné playlist are Jean Francaix's "Quartet," which is written for flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon, and Ellen Taaffe Zwillich's "Divertimento," which intermingles flute, clarinet, violin and cello.
	www.recordonline.com /archive/2003/04/11/music11.htm (466 words)

	parnassus classical compact discs and records: colorado string quartet fanfare review
		Mendelssohn's work is from the final months of his life between his collapse on hearing of the sudden death of his beloved sister Fanny Mendelssohn Henselt, and his own death.
		The agitated minor-key writing suggests a man preoccupied with thoughts of death, as is most certainly the case with the more theatrical D-Minor Quartet of Schubert, with its long set of variations on his popular song, Death and the Maiden.
		But along with this emotional coincidence is the evidence that in both string quartets, as is so often the case in the history of art, the anguish of the creative genius leads to work of superb craftsmanship as well as self-revelation.
	www.parnassusrecords.com /pacd96024fanfarereview.htm (445 words)

	The Chiara String Quartet Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		In the summer of 1993, Rebecca and Gregory were placed in a quartet through absolute chance at the Musicorda Summer String Program, on the campus of Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley Massachusetts.
		Times change, and Danielle, who is now a member of the Lark Quartet, took a different path from the rest of us at the end of the summer.
		Death is not such a distant reality when the temperature drops at night and snow is blowing across the road in a thick, rolling blanket.
	www.chiaraquartet.net /chiara.html (2089 words)

	Schubert: Greatest Hits \| Julius Levine, Mischa Schneider, ... \| This Schubert primer should...
		The reason why Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 8 in B Minor is known as the "Unfinished" Symphony is because the composer died of typhus at the age of 31 (although I know there was a Symphony No. 9).
		Although this collection includes Schubert's "Marche Militaire" and the first movement of the "Unfinished" Symphony, his strength was his songs.
		Death And The Maiden String Quartet In D Minor: IV Presto
	www.this-is-great.com /info/xbfffffsxasb (242 words)

	The Scholars of London Program for Coastal Concerts
		The concept of integrated movements is to be found by regarding the Quartet's subtitle, “Ist de wahr?” (Is it true?) The title comes from a poem by a friend of his, Johann Gustav Droyson, which Mendelssohn set to music and published as Opus 9, #1.
		This is a reference (not made by Schubert) to the title of the composer's 1817 song for solo voice and piano, based upon a text by Matthias Claudius.
		The piano's prelude and accompaniment to Death's pronouncements in this song form the basis for the D minor Quartet's theme and variations in the second movement.
	www.coastalconcerts.org /Programs/2004_05_Biava.htm (1019 words)

	classical music: brainin
		This is not all calm music to relax to but brilliant, passionate recordings with all the peaks and lulls of a storm...another kind of soundtrack, if you will.
		This DG Originals two-fer coupling Brahms' String Quartets and Dvorak's "American" Quartet, performed by the Amadeus Quartet, is simply wonderful.
		The Amadeus Quartet's special affinity for the Viennese classics shows clearly in the idiomatic lilt and heartfelt expressiveness of their first recording of the Schubert Quintet, made only a few years after the group was formed.
	www.this-is-great.com /classical/brainin (555 words)

	Saint Paul Sunday, April 2004 broadcast listings
		The ensemble opens with Beethoven's daring quartet No. 4 in c minor and concludes with a spirited scherzo by Prokofiev in which the earlier master's inspiration is unmistakable.
		Between the two, we'll hear the beloved "Death and the Maiden" quartet of Franz Schubert, another admirer of Beethoven.
		Listen to Orion String Quartet violinist Todd Phillips perform all of Beethoven's String Quartets by himself in under 30 seconds.
	saintpaulsunday.publicradio.org /listings/shows04_04.htm (601 words)

	The Japan Times Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Their program in Japan will consist primarily of Schubert -- including his dark and harrowing "Death and the Maiden" quartet, and the vast and emotionally complex String Quintet in C, for which they are joined by world-renowned cellist Heinrich Schiff.
		I'm not sure if Schubert was aware of all the emotions in his music, but he was a genius, and life and genius are two different things.
		The program includes Franz Schubert's "Death and the Maiden" quartet, the E-flat major quartet (D. 87) and quintet in C major and the Quartet-Satz.
	www.japantimes.co.jp /cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fm20050529a2.htm (1313 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The Stockbridge.String Quartet, Julius Schulman and William Marshall, violins, Jerome Lipson, viola, and Mischa Nieland, 'cello, performed works by Haydn, Pro- kofiev, and Schubert at Jordan Hall on Feb. 19.
		Te finall portion of the concerted was devoted to Schubert's "Death and the Maiden" Quartet, the D minor quartet.
		Quartets are meant to be un- played in small halls, and with few in attendance, it was an fortunate choice of location.
	www-tech.mit.edu /archives/VOL_088/TECH_V088_S0093_P007.txt (1158 words)

	Sheet Music Plus - Franz Schubert: String Quartet, D 810 (Death And The Maiden) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Franz Schubert: Two String Quartets - A Minor "Rosamunde" & C Minor "Quartett-Satz" For violin i, violin ii, viola and...
		Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quartets, Volume 1: The 10 Famous Quartets For violin i, violin ii, viola and...
		Franz Schubert: String Quintet In C Major, D 956 For violin i, violin ii, viola...
	www.sheetmusicplus.com /a/item.html?item=2457934&id=79590 (204 words)

	Musical Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Daniel Recital Hall on the campus of California State University, Long Beach, was the venue, and the artists were the Calder Quartet, four young graduates of USC who have been making a name for themselves ever since their professional debut.
		They took the coda of the finale in Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden” Quartet at an insanely fast clip, without breaking a sweat or turning a hair.
		Some of the pairings of quartet with guest pianist on this series have been less than felicitous, but that was not the case in the Dvorak quintet that comprised the second half.
	www.gazettes.com /grunionmusic03242005.html (438 words)

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