Sinossi
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...the corresponding movement of the C major symphony, is of vast length, and teems with beautiful melody such as seems to have been the very breath of life to Schubert. It opens with the following theme in the strings--punctuated by entrances of the wind instruments: The second theme is announced by the clarinet against a syncopated string accompaniment: From this material the master built up one of his most beautiful compositions, and, also, one of the finest slow movements to be met with throughout the entire range of symphonic literature. Genius is stamped on every phrase and every note, the charm of the themes themselves and the exalted poise maintained throughout their extended development revealing the hand of the true poet, and gently but irresistibly casting the sweet spell of peace and tenderness over the listener. The movement finally concludes with a brief coda, constructed largely from fragments of the principal theme. It may be of interest to quote the few measures which form the beginning of the scherzo:--No. 5 Allegro, ff 1 Tutti! Unison. At this point the master paused in the labor which he never resumed, thereby unfortunately depriving the world of the closing portions of a work which--as has been beautifully and justly said by another--"for its nameless charm and its power over the listener is undoubtedly his finest and most characteristic orchestral composition. The treatment of the wind instruments throughout in any other composer would be called masterly; to Schubert it seems to have been simply native. So absolutely is the art concealed that the effect is everything and the means nothing. In no other piece of music, perhaps, is the feeling so entirely produced that one has been in communication with the very person of the composer h...
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