Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart (1739-1791) was a German composer, organist, keyboardist, music theorist, poet, journalist, and tirelessly dedicated activist. Praised by Charles Burney who heard him play organ in Ludwigsburg, Schubart is mostly remembered today as the author of the poem "Die Forelle," which Franz Schubert set to music years later. In an era before true freedom of speech in Germany, Schubart’s published attack on the improprieties of the Jesuits led to his arrest and decade-long confinement in the severe conditions of the Hohenasperg Fortress. During his incarceration, Schubart authored the important treatise "Ideen zu einer Aesthetik der Tonkunst,” (“Ideas for an Aesthetics of Musical Art”) and wrote music and poetry, much of which in the "Sturm und Drang" style. For his political and religious views, Schubart was persecuted: exiled from society, and confined to a cell within a mighty, cold, stone fortress. Yet, in the prevailing spirit of the 18th century, his captors showed a level of Enlightenment leniency and allowed him to publish his art despite his status as a convicted prisoner.
The event is a public screening of a digital concert filmed at the Hohenasperg Fortress Museum, courtesy of the Haus der Geschichte Baden-Württemberg.
Anders Muskens is a BLEMF Emerging Artist.
5:00pm | Pre-Concert Discussion (screened)
Screening at Lotus Firebay
105 S. Rogers Street
May 19 | Released at www.BLEMF.org
Program
Works by Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart (1739 – 1791), and performed by a John Broadwood & Son square pianofrte (c. 1794) restored by Michael Cole.
Keyboard Sonata No. 1 in D major from “Etwas für Clavier und Gesang.“ Winterthur, (1783)
I. Allegro
II. Andante cantabile
III. Presto
IV. Tempo di menuetto
Keyboard Sonata No. 2 in C major from “Etwas für Clavier und Gesang.“ Winterthur, (1783) [14 min]
I. Allegro
II. Andante
III. Presto
IV. Rondo
Keyboard Sonata No. 3 in D major from “Etwas für Clavier und Gesang.“ Winterthur, (1783)
I. Allegro
II. Andante grazioso
III. Menuetto & Trio
IV. Presto
Variations pour le Clavecin ou Piano-forte par. Monsieur Schubart [in B flat] (manuscript, 1790)