Schubert: Ländler

Author: (Austrian) Schubert
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: Among the works composed by Schubert and in the years preceding and following (1820s), these have brought immense enjoyment to both performers and listeners with their charming melodies, lively rhythms, and exquisite harmonies. "Schubert's waltzes are more emotional than many of his larger works," Liszt wrote in a letter in 1878. Brahms, according to his biographer Max Kalbeck, "loved them all his life" and enthusiastically collected and played some of the waltzes. These works are published together in this collection for the first time, including a German Dances for Piano Four Hands with Two Trios composed by Schubert in 1818, followed by two charming E-flat major L?ndler. The manuscripts of these two works were discovered in the collection of the Julius St?ckhausen singers by the Vienna City Library in 1907 and published by Max Friedl?nder in 1909. The other L?ndler were composed during Schubert's second stay in Zееlitz: Nos. 8 and 9 are taken from the famous Collection of German Dances (Op. 33) published by Schubert in 1825. The last four works are from the Twenty L?ndler, a beautiful and melodious set published by Brahms in 1869, who owned the manuscripts. In fact, there are only two German Dances with Trios here, because the second (in A-flat major) and the fourth (in C major) can be considered middle sections after the repeat marks, serving as interludes for the first (in E-flat major) and the third (in C minor).