Franz Berwald - Piano Quintet No. 1, 2

 

프란츠 베어발트

 [1860:62세]

프란츠 베어발트(Franz Berwald: 1796-1868 /70세)는 스웨덴 낭만파 음악가. 그의 작품은 그의 생전에 잘 알려지지 못했다. 원래 성형외과 의사였으며 나중에는 목재공장과 유리공장을 운영했기 때문이었다.

 이름에서 알 수 있듯 독일 계통이다. 바이올리니스트이면서 작곡가인 베어발트는 그의 생전동안에는 빛을 보지 못하였으나 오늘날에는 19세기 스웨덴을 대표하는 작곡가로 인정받고 있다. 그의 대표작은 4개의 교향곡이다. 그러나 오페라에도 재능을 보여 스웨덴의 야담과 실화를 중심으로 4편의 오페라를 작곡했다.

 그러나 현재는 그의 작품들이 재인식되어 19세기뿐만 아니라 스웨덴 역사에 있어서 대표적인 작곡가로 추앙받고 있다.

[Franz Adolf Berwald (23 July 1796 – 3 April 1868) was a Swedish Romantic composer. He made his living as an orthopedist and later as the manager of a saw mill and glass factory, and became more appreciated as a composer after his death than he had been in his lifetime.

 

 

  Piano Quintet No. 1 in C minor Op. 5 (1853)

 

1. Allegro molto (0:00) 2. Adagio quasi andante (7:28) 3. Allegro assai e con spirito (15:57)

Bengt-Åke Lundin, piano and the Uppsala Chamber Soloists

 

Details by Edition Silvertrust: His Piano Quintet No.1 in c minor, Op.5 dates from 1853. Obviously, the opus number bears no relationship to reality. It could hardly have been only his fifth work, given that he was 57 at the time. The Quintet's first movement, Allegro molto, begins in dramatic and urgent fashion with an oddly slow scherzo middle section. The second movement, is a tender Adagio quasi andante. The finale, Allegro assai e con spirito, is the most effective, full of power and forward drive. Sometime during the 1850’s, a German music critic is reputed to have asked Franz Berwald (1796-1868) if he was still a composer. Berwald stared at him coldly and replied, “No, I am a glass blower.” This was neither a joke nor a sarcastic put-down of the critic by a bitter man whose music had been spurned in his own country and whose career in music had met with failure after failure. Berwald had in fact, at that time, actually been a glass blower! He had become involved with this successful business, and not his first, in order to make a living, something he could not do as a musician. Liszt, whom Berwald befriended in the 1850’s, told him, “You have true originality, but you will not be a success in your own lifetime.” Sadly, this prediction proved true. Berwald’s music remained unplayed and for the most part—especially in his native Sweden—unappreciated. Finally, after more than a century and half after his death, he has been hailed by critics all over the world as a great Swedish composer. Born in Stockholm in 1796, Berwald was taught the violin by his father, a German who had settled in Sweden and was a member of the court orchestra. Berwald followed in his father's footsteps.

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Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major 

00:00 Allegro Con Gusto 09:53 Allegro Vivace 17:33 Poco Andante Con Grazie 24:50 Allegro Molto

 

Contents

• 1Life and works
• 2Critical assessment
• 3Works
  • 3.1Symphonies
  • 3.2Concertante
  • 3.3Other orchestral works
  • 3.4Chamber music
  • 3.5Vocal works
  • 3.6Stage works
  • 3.7Works for wind orchestra
• 4Notes
• 5References
• 6External links