Schubart wrote " Die Forelle" in 1782, while imprisoned in the fortress of Hohenasperg he was a prisoner there from 1777 to 1787 for insulting the mistress of Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg. Opinion is divided on his abilities: The Musical Times considers him to be "one of the feeblest poets" whose work was used by Schubert, and comments that he "was content with versifying pretty ideas", while the singer and author Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau considered Schubart to be "a very talented poet, musician and orator".
The lyrics of the lied are from a poem by Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart. 667), in which a set of variations of " Die Forelle" are present in the fourth movement.Ĭhristian Friedrich Daniel Schubart, who wrote the poem in 1783 This commission resulted in the Trout Quintet (D. The song was popular with contemporary audiences, which led to Schubert being commissioned to write a piece of chamber music based on the song. The musicologist Marjorie Wing Hirsch describes its type in the Schubert lieder as a "lyrical song with admixtures of dramatic traits". In the Deutsch catalogue of Schubert's works it is number 550, or D. The first two verses have the same structure but change for the final verse to give a musical impression of the trout being caught. Schubert wrote " Die Forelle" in the single key of D-flat major with a varied (or modified) strophic form. Schubert produced six subsequent copies of the work, all with minor variations. When Schubert set the poem to music, he removed the last verse, which contained the moral, changing the song's focus and enabling it to be sung by male or female singers.
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The full poem tells the story of a trout being caught by a fisherman, but in its final stanza reveals its purpose as a moral piece warning young women to guard against young men. Schubert chose to set the text of a poem by Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart, first published in the Schwäbischer Musenalmanach in 1783. is a lied, or song, composed in early 1817 for solo voice and piano with music by the Austrian composer Franz Schubert (1797–1828). " Die Forelle" (German for "The Trout"), Op.
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