Just one? If you put a gun to my head I'd probably go for the G major Piano Sonata. We asked musicians and enthusiasts which work they couldn't live without. (Radio is a peculiarly Schubertian medium, the most intimate way of connecting a composer and listener.) There is a whole life revealed in his music, and if you really listen to him, Schubert will change yours, too. A new Radio 3 season starting this Friday, The Spirit of Schubert, will give us that chance. Yet the more we know about his music, the more there is to explore. It was decades before his achievement was recognised the "Unfinished" Symphony premiered in 1865, 37 years after his death. Yet there was only one public concert of his music in his lifetime. He wrote more than 600 songs, more than a dozen string quartets and 21 piano sonatas he completed seven symphonies, with many more left unfinished he wrote operas, masses, piano trios and duets. Living almost entirely in his home town of Vienna, he was a loyal but occasionally cantankerous and drunk friend to a tight-knit groups of artists, poets and writers. After Emilia leaves, Desdemona prays to Virgin Mary, asking her to pray for the sinner, the weak, the oppressed, the mighty, the unfortunate, and for them in the hour of their death.The simple facts of Franz Schubert's life shed little light on the enormous emotional range of his music, and the seismic effect his work has had. Knowing she may die that evening at the hands of her husband Otello, Desdemona asks her servant Emilia to prepare her wedding gown with instructions to bury her in it in case she dies that evening. This sublime aria is sung in the fourth act of Giuseppe Verdi's opera, "Otello" , by Desdemona. Stravinsky composed all three works in Slavic text, then fifteen years later, after moving to the United States, he republished the works with Latin texts. It wasn't until he returned to the church that he wrote a series of three motets intended for use within the orthodoxy: "The Lord's Prayer" (1926), "Credo" (1932), and "Ave Maria" (1934). Stravinsky was raised in the Russian Orthodox Church, but in his young adult life, his religious practices were "put on hold" so to speak. Schubert's original published score for this song was not set to the Latin prayer despite its opening phrase "Ave Maria." Schubert based his work on Walter Scott's similarly titled epic poem. In 1825, Schubert composed " Ellens Dritter Gesang" (Ellen's Third Song) and included it in his collection of seven songs titled " Liederzyklus vom Fräulein vom See" ("The Lady of the Lake"). Mascagni's Ave Maria is an adaption of his beloved Intermezzo (a piece of music performed between two scenes or acts in an opera) from the opera, Cavalleria Rusticana. Gounod's work was originally published for violin/cello with piano and harmonium, but in 1859, after receiving a request from Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann (Gounod's future father-in-law who transcribed Gounod's improvisation) Jacques Léopold Heugel released a vocal version with the melody set to the text of the Ave Maria prayer. 1 in C Major, which Bach published in 1722 as part of "The Well-Tempered Clavier," a book of piano music Bach wrote to sell to students interested in learning and perfecting their piano technique. In 1853, French composer, Charles Gounod improvised a melody to Johann Sebastian Bach's Piano Prelude No.
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