Summary Dominique Pagani sees Schubert as the lyrical composer par excellence, whom he sets off against a Beethovenian background: he would like to be Beethoven and tries his hand at the large form, but his lyricism catches up with him1 . Yet he makes him one of the most modern musicians, because he subverts sonata form through the lied2 , and because of the recurring dissonant minor second and a hypnotic repetition, as Gould discovers on hearing Richter play the Sonata D. 9603 . He describes a music that oscillates between depression and ecstasy, a melancholy happiness, "sublime but deathly", with suffering even in the smile4 . He reads closely the Trio No. 2, whose cello theme returns like Vinteuil's phrase5 , as well as Die schöne Müllerin, with its clear water in which the miller drowns6 . He also compares the step of the Wanderer to Nerval's slow walk.
1 #1 Schubert and the master singers 3 Dec 2020 · 3:41 2 #6 The jazz variation… by Beethoven 15 Dec 2020 · 1:44:44 3 #3 What is called modern music? 3 Dec 2020 · 55:57 4 #5 Happiness versus the death drive in music 11 Dec 2020 · 1:08:54 5 Schubert: the divine captives 3 Aug 2022 · 14:55 6 A springtime of the peoples? 18 Mar 2023 · 55:25 Summary produced automatically from 78 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.
Who is this? Franz Peter Schubert (; German:; 31 January 1797 – 19 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. He was immensely prolific despite living a short life, leaving behind a vast oeuvre of more than 1,000 compositions, including over 600 Lieder (art song in German) and other vocal works, seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music, and a large body of piano and chamber music. […]
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Series · 3 Dec 2020 #1 Schubert and the master singers3:41 Standing out as a figure against a Beethovenian background: a summit of lyricism facing the dramatist, whom he would like to be. 7:44 Impromptu in F minor Begins in a Beethovenian manner then, at measure 68, lets a lied emerge that occupies three quarters of the piece.12:56 Piano Sonata in B-flat Major His genius lies in hypnosis, as Gould understands upon hearing Richter play the first movement.17:26 The Fair Maid of the Mill The cycle ends at the bottom of the stream, with a lullaby sung after death: hypnotic song par excellence.22:19 Symphony No. 9 "The Great C Major" The man of the clearing: in the second movement a ray of paradise appears, but for himself alone.Series · 3 Dec 2020 #3 What is called modern music?17:47 Proposed as perhaps the most modern musician in history. 55:57 Piano Sonata in B-flat Major D. 960 Considered conservative, he is modern through the recurring minor-second dissonance; repetition is hypnosis.1:00:12 Moments Musicaux op. 94 The sixth Moment musical multiplies unprepared breaks and modulations: a clearing from which one does not emerge.1:04:30 The most modern of the lyricists, he loses the dramatic element; near-supernatural beauty like a song of the sirens. Cycle 5.2 · 2 May 2019 #5.6 Nature or landscape?57:51 The Shepherd on the Rock His last work, the shepherd's song.1:03:38 Obsessed with Beethoven, he ventures into the grand form; his last works are artistically complete. 1:05:42 The andante, a walking rhythm, alternates interiority and panorama and opens the gates of paradise. 1:14:42 The horn call suspends the form: an attempt to step out of time. Cycle 12 · 4 Jan 2024 I am not who you think I am: the elusive identity14:08 The Erlking A lied as a condensed drama: the night ride in which the child arrives dead.28:15 Set Mignon's song to music; in general brought the lied to perfection. 1:05:34 Winterreise The lone traveler in the snow says: let your dogs howl in front of your masters' houses.Cycle 11 · 3 Sept 2023 Worldliness in Clouscard: desiring what? Through whom?1:10:11 He is never more moving than when he returns in the major key. 1:13:21 The Shepherd on the Rock His final work expresses the shepherd's distance.Series · 9 Feb 2021 #15 Plato, Rousseau, Hegel and music1:28:34 Swan Song Laborious in imitating Beethoven, excels in the lied: the melody flows, up to the last voyage.1:33:42 Piano Trio No. 2 Invaded by death, turns it into a liberating resolution; his finales no longer interrupt the song.Series · 15 Dec 2020 #6 The jazz variation… by Beethoven1:40:44 Piano Sonata D. 959 Imposes the lied form within the sonata; the finale pours out without conflict.1:44:44 One of the most modern musicians through this subversion of sonata form by the lied. Series · 3 Dec 2020 #2 From Lévi-Strauss to Nerval, on music49:58 His themes are tunes one does not forget. 1:16:16 Unfinished Symphony The isolated individual ends up in an impasse of melancholy or paradisal ecstasy.1:23:04 Hypnotic repetition is better achieved there than in repetitive music, with small variations. Cycle 13 · 20 Sept 2024 Sickness, misfortune, evil18:05 In his work the stream is a wife. 1:37:06 Impromptus His impromptu illustrates the romantic ideal of the smile through tears; died at 31.Cycle 11 · 18 Mar 2023 A springtime of the peoples?55:25 The Fair Maid of the Mill His music is as transparent as the clear water of his lieder, where one risks drowning like the miller.Series · 3 Aug 2022 Schubert: the divine captives14:55 Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat Major In the second movement, a theme stated on the cello is forgotten, then returns with an immortal and wholesome melancholy, like Vinteuil's phrase.Series · 25 Mar 2021 #17 Interpretation32:25 Died in anonymity and poverty. 37:57 Transparent, airy, melodic pianism. 1:13:53 Piano Sonata in B-flat Major D. 960 He recommends Clara Haskil's interpretation.1:20:29 Piano Sonata in B-flat Major D. 960 Through Richter, his rehearsals appear to Gould to be of the order of hypnosis.Cycle 9.1 · 23 Oct 2020 #2 Benefits and harms of amnesia…59:23 Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat Major Lyric composer; in the solar finale the cello melody of the second movement returns.1:29:30 Overtaken by his lyricism even as he strives to be heroic. Cycle 7 · 18 Apr 2020 #5 Harnessed to confinitude57:25 The Fair Maid of the Mill Genius of the murmur of the brook, notably in Wohin?, the second lied of the cycle, accompanied from beginning to end by the brook on the piano.Cycle 4 · 15 Mar 2018 #4.6 Angélique (by Nerval)18:12 Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat The Wanderer's pace, a muffled wandering rhythm, matches Nerval's slow walk.Cycle 4 · 15 Jan 2018 #4.4 Angélique (by Nerval)1:07:52 Symphony No. 9 "The Great" The walking rhythm of the Wanderer, found again in Nerval's slow obstinacy and in the second movement of his last symphony.Series · 2 Feb 2016 Hegel on the Beach 5/546:50 The Fair Maid of the Mill Music of clear water, effort toward light; the apprentice miller ends up at the bottom of the water.Series · 7 Feb 2023 Nietzsche, or the Great Ninny3:14 A contemporary of Schumann, yet as different as day and night. Cycle 11 · 19 Oct 2022 “Speech is the best and the worst of things” (Aesop)13:03 In his work everything takes place by the side of small streams, the Bächlein, never the Amazon. Talks · 14 Jul 2022 From Plato to world revolution6:44 Example of the lyric: always caught in a feeling of despair or ecstasy. Cycle 10 · 24 Nov 2021 #10.5 The figure of Antigone, such as into herself at last…10:20 A musician from the petty bourgeoisie, not from the aristocracy. Series · 4 Oct 2021 #4 Nomad and sedentary: the case of Nerval1:25:17 The walk through the woods evokes his music. Cycle 9.2 · 9 Jun 2021 #9.23 “Ruled like music paper!” Bach, Nerval, Lévi-Strauss1:48:29 Sung by Kathleen Ferrier. 2:05:13 A Schubert sonata does not sound the same at two different moments. Cycle 9.2 · 27 May 2021 #9.22 Science and/or philosophy of “artificial intelligence” (part 2)43:34 Kempff is a great Schubert interpreter; the complete sonatas are recommended. Series · 30 Apr 2021 My eco-cabin in the ZAD: autonomy or alienation?19:10 Hungarian Melody in B minor, D. 817 Piece heard in the documentary.Series · 18 Apr 2021 #2 Lenin, or the wings of dreams33:54 His music in Barry Lyndon. Cycle 9.2 · 14 Apr 2021 #9.19 Twilight of the Gods, or from repetition to liberation (part 2)17:07 Unmatched in the lied, but not the best for the Mignon poem. Series · 7 Apr 2021 #1 Mignon, or the song of silence50:38 Among the composers inspired by Mignon. Series · 25 Mar 2021 #18 What is musical in music38:49 Author of a lied on Mignon. 1:19:35 Schubertian song and its finales that vary an arioso theme: pure melody that flows. Cycle 9.2 · 4 Mar 2021 #9.16 How can sciences of history be real?11:38 Example: saying that Schubert is "someone" has a great extension and a poor comprehension. Series · 2 Feb 2021 #13 Mozart restored5:08 Contemporary of Goethe; breaks of discouragement as in Mozart. Cycle 9.2 · 29 Jan 2021 #9.13 How can sciences of history be real?2:24 Same list of musicians. Series · 28 Jan 2021 #12 Nietzsche (right up) against Wagner5:35 He is part of the sequence from Bach to Wagner. Series · 24 Jan 2021 #11 Modal and tonal music1:13:17 Nine symphonies; subverts sonata form through the lied. Series · 15 Jan 2021 #9 Romantic irony and the Vinteuil sonata1:18:04 Even in his cheerful music, there is a suffering in the smile. Cycle 9.2 · 14 Jan 2021 #9.12 How can sciences of history be real?1:54:55 Among the essentially lyrical romantics. Series · 11 Jan 2021 #8 Happiness and unhappiness in music1:18:18 Ecstasy and depression alternate in him, but not pleasure. Series · 11 Dec 2020 #5 Happiness versus the death drive in music6:59 His happiness has a melancholic, heartrending side absent in Tchaikovsky. 32:16 Example of music that is sublime but deathly. 58:41 In Beethoven's shadow, more modern than one thinks. 1:08:54 Level and floating, between total depression and ecstasy, opposed to Schumann. Series · 3 Dec 2020 #4 Sound ghettos19:04 Very simple melodies, objects of variation. 27:42 A lyrical composer, unlike Beethoven. 46:00 Takes counterpoint lessons a few months before his death. Cycle 9.1 · 8 Oct 2020 #1 Benefits and harms of amnesia…37:17 Ganymede Fine musical setting of Goethe's poem.Cycle 8 · 21 Jun 2020 #11 Return to the logics of the subject11:03 Avant-garde that Hegel is said, by his exegetes, to have neglected. Cycle 7 · 11 Apr 2020 #4 Harnessed to confinitude12:27 Died at 31 in anonymity and poverty. Series · 23 Mar 2020 Introduction to the upcoming workshops4:30 The Fair Maid of the Mill His transparent music, like Nerval's sentence, makes one slide over the signifiers.Cycle 5.2 · 25 Jan 2019 #5.4 Introduction: nature or landscape?9:23 Impromptus A participant associates an impromptu with Friedrich's painting.45:43 Wanderer Nerval's wandering had been compared to Schubert's Wanderer metrics.Cycle 4 · 12 Apr 2018 #4.7 Angélique (by Nerval)1:36:31 The Erlking A lied written on Goethe's poem on the back of a brewery invoice.Cycle 4 · 12 Feb 2018 #4.5 Angélique (by Nerval)48:11 The walk undertaken on foot "à la Schubert." Cycle 2 · 15 Feb 2016 #2.2 Between crisis and war: philosophising?34:53 Unfinished Symphony Died at 31; one who knows he will die does not write the same way.Cycle 1 · 28 Jan 2016 #1.8 Between crisis and war: philosophising?1:23:50 Haunted by shadow, his music is a quest for light. Talks · 26 Apr 2015 The music of history35:33 his quartets listened to in a country house 1:33:38 Germanic repertoire performed by the Russians 
Series · 3 Dec 2020#1 Schubert and the master singers
