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Schubert, the Unfinished Symphonist |
| Section: THE ARTS / MUSIC |
| Author: Tom Pniewski |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1997 |
| Size: 2,613 Words, 16,207 Characters |
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"One of Music's greatest treasures, but even greater hopes." Franz Grillparzer, a close friend of Franz Schubert's, had the sad duty of writing this inscription for Schubert's grave. But he probably had no idea just how true it was--how uniquely compressed in time Schubert's contribution to music was, and how momentous a musical change was imminent when death overtook him.
This year the world celebrates the bicentennial of Schubert's birth, on January 31, 1797. His father, a modest schoolteacher, carefully noted the date and time (1:30 in the afternoon). He was just as careful in recording the date and time of death (3:00 on Wednesday afternoon, November 19, 1828). He calculated the time span: 31 years, 9 months, 19 days, and 1 1/2 hours. This is the shortest life of any major composer:...
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...e assured me--these he has taken to his grave."
The more we learn of the sorrows and sadness Schubert had to bear through his mature career--a career essentially compressed into a decade--the deeper our admiration must be for this gentle genius. And the evidence of his final Symphony in D only confirms that Schubert's grave holds "one of Music's greatest treasures, but even greater hopes."
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