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Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Robert Schumann:All too aware of his deteriorating condition, and afraid of causing physical harm to his wife, Schumann asked that he be removed to an asylum on the 26th of February 1854.
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Robert Schumann:Schumann had long been trying to find a lucrative salaried position – in Leipzig, Dresden or elsewhere.
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Robert Schumann:Schumann's next main musical projects were orchestral in nature…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Robert Schumann:If 1840 was Schumann's year of song, then 1841 was his year of orchestral music…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Robert Schumann:Schumann's affair with Ernestine ended towards the end of 1835, a few months after the composer discovered her illegitimate birth – and thus that she had no dowry.
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Robert Schumann:The summer of 1833 brought with it a deep depression that would later recur at roughly evenly spaced periods throughout the composer's life.
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Robert Schumann:One of Schumann's best loved melodies: Träumerei ('Dreaming') from his 1838 piano collection Kinderszenen ('Scenes from Childhood')…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Robert Schumann:Leafing through the latest biographies of the 19th-century German composer Robert Schumann, it is tempting to fast-forward to the final chapters…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Robert Schumann:Introduction
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Robert Schumann:The story, however, does not end here…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Robert Schumann:Schumann held his Düsseldorf position for three seasons, a period during which he continued to compose large-scale works intended for public performance…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Robert Schumann:Schumann's new-found interest in dramatic music would give rise to two additional large-scale works: Manfred, incidental music based on Lord Byron's 1817 poem; and the grand orchestral-choral work…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Robert Schumann:1845 also witnessed a series of works based on Schumann's continuing study of musical counterpoint…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Robert Schumann:1842 witnessed another creative departure: chamber music…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Robert Schumann:'Sometimes your music actually frightens me, and I wonder: is it really true that the creator of such things is going to be my husband?'
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Robert Schumann:Schumann departed Heidelberg for Leipzig in September 1830…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Robert Schumann:In the summer of 1829, Schumann left Leipzig for Heidelberg, ostensibly to continue his studies…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Robert Schumann:In late March 1828, after leaving high school, Schumann matriculated at the University of Leipzig to study Law.
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Franz Schubert:But not all of Schubert's music of this final period could be described as mournful and gloomy.
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Franz Schubert:For Schubert, life was to imitate art, the composer becoming as depressed and desperate as the young man whose idealistic love he depicted so vividly in the much-celebrated song cycle.
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Franz Schubert:Despite his illness and realisation of his imminent death, Schubert continued to compose a series of mature masterworks…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Franz Schubert:If, with Alfonso und Estrella, Schubert's operatic efforts had fallen flat, he was at least enjoying sustained success with his Lieder.
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Franz Schubert:If the holiday – and, indeed, the 'Trout' Quintet – had engendered a relaxed, easy-going mindset and overall leisurely outlook, then the return to the city once again brought disappointment…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Franz Schubert:As was so often the case with Schubert, with highs came lows, conflicting emotions that reveal something of the tempestuous nature of his personality.
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Franz Schubert:At the time of Hatwig's house concert and the private premiere of Schubert's Symphony No. 5, the composer was no longer living and working with his father…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Franz Schubert:Schubert's musical mastery lies in his ability to evoke the intense psychological drama of the text, along with the practical realities of the scene.
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Franz Schubert:An extract from Schubert's Wiegenlied or 'Cradle Song', thought to have been written in November 1816, the composer then 19 years of age.
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Franz Schubert:The opening of Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 8 in B minor…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Franz Schubert:The String Quintet in C makes for a fitting finale to this musical biography.
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Franz Schubert:1822 was also the year in which Schubert is thought to have contracted the venereal disease that would terminate his life only a few years later.
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Franz Schubert:It is perhaps unsurprising that as Schubert fine-tuned his skills in musical dramaticism, transforming the German Lied from its lowly roots into a genre of unprecedented expressivity…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Franz Schubert:In 1821, seven years after its completion, Gretchen am Spinnrade appeared in print as Schubert's opus 2: that is, his second published score.
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Franz Schubert:While there is little corroborative evidence of a serious relationship between Schubert and Fräulein Grob…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Franz Schubert:Yet another 'first' emerged a couple of months later in July: the completion of Schubert's first Mass, in F.
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Franz Schubert:The very same month as the symphony's school premiere, Schubert was offered a scholarship to continue his studies at the Stadtkonvikt…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Franz Schubert:Schubert's earliest works date from his years at the Stadtkonvikt…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Franz Schubert:Introduction
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Felix Mendelssohn:Ten years after the premiere of St. Paul, Mendelssohn turned his attention once again to the genre of the oratorio: the result was Elijah…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Felix Mendelssohn:Hear My Prayer, a short standalone piece of sacred choral music also composed in 1844, cannot be described as a masterpiece…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Felix Mendelssohn:The next few years in Leipzig witnessed the completion of Mendelssohn's String Quartets Op. 44, his Piano Trio in D minor, the Overture 'Ruy Blas'…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Felix Mendelssohn:Roughly one month earlier, the 9th of September 1836, Mendelssohn had become engaged to Cécile Jeanrenaud…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Felix Mendelssohn:The second opportunity to present itself on Mendelssohn's return to Berlin, following his European tour, was the directorship of the 15th Niederrheinisches Musikfest…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Felix Mendelssohn:At the home of a wealthy mine owner in north Wales, the next stop in his tour, Mendelssohn first contemplated a large-scale orchestral work now known as the Reformation Symphony…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Felix Mendelssohn:The period also witnessed the intensification of Mendelssohn's historical interest in earlier styles, particularly sacred vocal music…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Felix Mendelssohn:A similar musical atmosphere was created in the second of Mendelssohn's towering early works: his Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream, finished in early August 1826 and, like the Octet…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Felix Mendelssohn:An extract from Mendelssohn's piano collection Kinderstücke ('Children's Pieces'), published after the composer' death in 1847…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Felix Mendelssohn:Der Onkel aus Boston ('The Uncle from Boston'), a three-act dramatic work by Felix Mendelssohn, begun in May 1822 and completed in November 1823…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Felix Mendelssohn:Introduction
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Felix Mendelssohn:Mendelssohn died on the 4th of November 1847 following a series of strokes…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Felix Mendelssohn:It is easy to forget that, while Mendelssohn was most famous during his lifetime as a composer, conductor and virtuoso pianist, his skills extended to the organ…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Felix Mendelssohn:The success of Mendelssohn's directorship of the Düsseldorf festival – to one commentator, 'the greatest public success that he had yet had in Germany'…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Felix Mendelssohn:1829 saw the beginning of Mendelssohn's Grand Tour of Europe, a series of excursions that took the composer north to Scotland and south to Italy…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Felix Mendelssohn:By his early teens, Mendelssohn had already acquired an impressive portfolio of musical compositions across a range of genres: chamber music, psalm settings, string sinfonias and keyboard works…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:Having become ill towards the end of November…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:The Magic Flute was not Mozart's only stage work of 1791…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:Besides Così, Mozart completed relatively few compositions…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:On returning to Vienna, Mozart received good news…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:While instrumental genres and chamber music…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:Shortly after the premiere…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:By way of Mannheim and Munich…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:In the summer of 1777…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:Returning to Salzburg after his three Italian sojourns…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:Another work that stands out among Mozart's early repertoire…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:However complex its genesis…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:Before he was six years old…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:I love Mozart as the musical Christ
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Ludwig van Beethoven:After completion of the Ninth Symphony…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Ludwig van Beethoven:Searching for popular acclaim at home in Vienna…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Ludwig van Beethoven:Before the mega-concert took place…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Ludwig van Beethoven:Beethoven's productivity continued on his return to Vienna
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Ludwig van Beethoven:Unfortunately for Beethoven, the sorrowful mood…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Ludwig van Beethoven:The next few years witnessed multiple performances…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Ludwig van Beethoven:Eight months after the charity concert…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Ludwig van Beethoven:Notwithstanding his simmering resentment towards Haydn…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Ludwig van Beethoven:Beethoven, it should be said, was no Mozart…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Ludwig van Beethoven:Introduction
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Johann Sebastian Bach:As well as exhibiting Bach's penchant for the theoretical aspect…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Johann Sebastian Bach:Despite Bach's travelling and various guest appearances…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Johann Sebastian Bach:As well as its regular weekly concerts…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Johann Sebastian Bach:Bach's musical activities, in the years following…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Johann Sebastian Bach:The second Köthen composition that has come to define…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Johann Sebastian Bach:During Bach's nearly six years at Köthen…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Johann Sebastian Bach:Yet Buxtehude and the northern German musical culture…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:The clarinet concerto marked Mozart's farewell…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:Seemingly keen for a change of scene…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:There are reports of encores at the first performances…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:Mozart's keyboard playing was widely recognised…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:Over time, Mozart appears to have played…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:Happiness, however soon turned to despair…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:Despite his demanding schedule…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:Introduction
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Ludwig van Beethoven:If Beethoven's life was a Hollywood blockbuster…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Ludwig van Beethoven:Beethoven now turned his attention to a work…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Ludwig van Beethoven:Beethoven interrupted work on the Archduke's mass…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Ludwig van Beethoven:During this period of creative inspiration…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Ludwig van Beethoven:Wrapped up with the complicated genesis…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Ludwig van Beethoven:Less than two years later…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Ludwig van Beethoven:It was probably Waldstein who, in the following months…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Ludwig van Beethoven:Wild, untamed, arresting, yearning, tortured, passionate…
Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words and Music - Johann Sebastian Bach:We know of nothing that Bach composed after this movement…