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An NCPA Presentation

Schubert: “Trout” Quintet

In this series of talks on Western classical music, Dr. Cavas Bilimoria takes listeners through musical concepts, the lives of composers and their famous works, interspersed with examples from recorded music.

In the summer of 1819, a 23-year-old Franz Schubert went for a walking tour in upper Austria and lodged with Dr. Albert Shellman whose neighbour was Sylvester Paumgartner, a rich mining engineer and an amateur cellist. Paumgartner requested Schubert to compose a quintet for violin, viola, cello, double bass and piano based on ‘Die Fiorelle’ (The Trout), a song he had composed two years earlier. The result was Schubert’s first major masterpiece of chamber music, the appeal of which has grown exponentially since its first performance.

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