Schubert)- Rondo in A major for Violin and Strings, D 438

 

Franz Schubert

(1797~1828/오스트리아)

 

Rondo in A major for Violin and Strings, D 438

Shmuel Ashkenasi, violin
ICM String Quartet
David Radzynski – violin
Laurel Gagnon – violin
Alexander Smith – viola
Sunnat Ibragimov – cello

Live performance Saturday, September 27, 2014, International Center for Music at Park University

            

 

The Rondo for Violin and Strings, D 438, is a composition in in A major by Franz Schubert. He wrote the rondo in 1816. Like the roughly contemporary Adagio and Rondo concertante in F major, D 487, the work is a concertante piece designed to highlight the skills of the violin soloist.

 

Background

Schubert composed the piece in 1816, along with a number of other works featuring a violin soloist including the three sonatinas (D 384/385 & D 408) and the Konzertstück in D major, D 345. It is believed that the work was composed with the intent that either the composer himself or his brother Ferdinand would take the soloists part.

The piece was unpublished during the composer's lifetime, not seeing publication until 1897, when Breitkopf & Härtel published it in an edition edited by Eusebius Mandyczewski.^{[3] [1]}

Structure

The composition, which is written for a violin soloist and an accompanying group made up of violins, violas & cellos,^[a] is structured as a single multi-tempo movement divided into two sections, the Introduction (Marked: Adagio) and the Rondo (Marked: Allegro giusto). It takes around 14 - 15 minutes to perform.