Category: Chamber Music , Recordings
On her CD SCHUBERT ECHOES Label Spectral Jelena Stojkovic is performing the NORRURNO OSCURO. Thies piece refers to the longing and love of composer Franz Schubert to the young singer Therese Grob: she premiered the first Mass in F-Major of Franz Schubert... but was not interested in any mood of love.
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Publisher of notes/sheet music: , 2025
Introduction: The piano piece is inspired by the novel-biography SCHUBERT by Peter Härtling (1992), where he describes how the composer is consumed with love for the singer Therese Grob and stands nightly in the courtyard under her window. Verbatim quotation from Härtling's novel (page 91): There his wild fantasies rage, and he stands miserably bent in the nocturnal courtyard, satisfying himself.
It is an obscure night music whose wild and tragic despair leads into a theme of longing in the middle section, the "Kyrie" of Mass No. 1 in F major D 105. It is, so to speak, a beautiful "mercy" music from Schubert's very first composition. Franz Schubert had composed these melodies for his adored Therese Grob (1798-1875), who then sang them as a soloist at the premiere of the Mass in the Lichtenthal parish church in Vienna when she was 16. So one hears an absolutely authentic love melody.
Records: 2024
