Schubert Songs
By John Watson
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Many of Schubert's six hundred songs were composed quickly, and often in the midst of of a gathering of friends loudly revelling or performing other music. Sometimes that remarkable facility would be exercised while walking in company through the woods round Vienna. John Watson has composed a sequence of scenes from this prodigious working life
John Watson
John Watson is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Optical Engineering at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.
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Schubert Songs - John Watson
SCHUBERT SONGS
JOHN WATSON
Ginninderra PressSchubert Songs
ISBN 978 1 76109 456 9
Copyright © text John Watson 2022
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CONTENTS
Preface
A Recital of Voices in Which Schubert is Addressed or is Recalled or Speaks Directly
PREFACE
Some of the incidents here are invented, some taken from the admirable volumes of Otto E. Deutsch: Schubert, A Documentary Biography and Schubert, Memoirs By His Friends, which are models of a method of biography all too rarely used. A few fragments derive from Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau’s excellent Schubert’s Songs and Charles Osborne, Schubert And His Vienna.
Schubert’s music (which includes some six hundred songs) is, whether vocal or instrumental, essentially song-like, and the present title is intended to reflect this. To a degree – perhaps fancifully – I have also imagined each poem as a text for a song with accompaniment – some strophic, some in the manner of a recitative.
A RECITAL OF VOICES IN WHICH SCHUBERT IS ADDRESSED OR IS RECALLED OR SPEAKS DIRECTLY
In September of 1828
The composer was already indisposed,
And resolved upon a journey
To seek out Joseph Haydn’s tomb
Beside which he lingered for some time.
To seek out Joseph Haydn’s tomb
Beside which he lingered for some time,
He travelled down a curving path
And soon would see himself approach.
And, some weeks afterward, a meal
Of fish seemed vilely poisonous;
He threw down his knife and fork,
Retaining only lines and staves
And thereafter he scarcely ate
But sat up for several weeks
Correcting manuscripts until at last
He resolved upon a journey.
❒
Each evening towards dusk I walk,
My work complete by afternoon;
By then those leaping intervals
Which visit me have come and gone,
Have danced and left. And in their place,
More imprecise are dusk’s faint cries:
The evening insects’ zithering cry
The sky of wings invisible
The swallows