Schubert’s second piano trio op.100 (d.929): Layered self-quotation ‘Dedicated to nobody save those who find pleasure in it’
Schubert’s second piano trio op.100 (d.929): Layered self-quotation ‘Dedicated to nobody save those who find pleasure in it’
Author(s): Nicholas RastSubject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Music, Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life, Book-Review, History of Art
Published by: Издателство НМА „Проф. Панчо Владигеров”
Keywords: Schubert; self-quotation; Marian culture; Walter Scott; homage; Beethoven; Schubert’s Privat-Concert
Summary/Abstract: Scott Messing offers a persuasive argument for Schubert’s intentional, and not exactly hidden, self-quotation of the song ‘Ave Maria’ (Op.52 no.6) in his E flat piano trio (Op.100). The latter, Messing alleges, was intended as an elaborately encoded homage to Beethoven, that would appeal particularly to the well-informed audience at its public unveiling on the first anniversary on 26 March 1828 of the master’s death. There may be room to challenge aspects of Messing’s thesis, but it will certainly convince many who find pleasure in it.
Journal: Academic Forum “Integral Music Theory”
- Issue Year: 8/2021
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 152-161
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English
