Schubertiade

As Schubertiade (1797-1828) have been used for the lifetime of the composer Franz Schubert referred to performances of his works. Initially, the term was used for performances in private, today he called concert series and music festivals.

Schubertiaden the composer's lifetime

1815-1824 found in the large apartment of Sonnleithner family in Gundelhof (at the farmer's market 2-4) in Vienna acclaimed house concerts. Ignaz Sonnleithner had assembled a group of culturally interested citizens around and soon came in contact with Schubert. The house concerts Sonnleithner offered Schubert a great way to make his works known in Vienna.

The first documentary documented event, which may be described in the narrower sense Schubertiade, found on 26 January 1821 in the family home of Schober place ( occupied by a letter from Joseph Huber January 30, 1821 at his bride Rosalie Kranzbichlerstraße ). From 1822 Schubert himself used the term. A Schubertiade you can also organize alone, as the letter Leopold Kupelwieser to Schober from March 8, 1824 ( " also I give sometimes me Schubertiaden " ) proves.

In the first Schubertiaden played Franz Schubert piano and the baritone Johann Michael Vogl or later Carl von Schönstein sang his songs. Readings and witty entertainment games, which often were under a certain topic, were among the evenings. These were a mixture of friendly meetings and literary and musical salon.

Frequent guests were Joseph Sonnleithner, Leopold von Sonnleithner, Fritz and Franz von Hartmann, Anton Doblhoff - in-chief, Joseph Huber, Johann Baptist Jenger, Jacob Nicolaus Craigher, the painter Moritz von Schwind, Ludwig Ferdinand Schnorr von Carol Field and Wilhelm August Rieder, the poet Johann Mayrhofer, Johann Gabriel Seidl and the composer and conductor Franz Lachner, as well as Schubert's closest friends Joseph von Spaun, Franz von Schober, Karl Enderes, Joseph Witteczek, Joseph of Gahy and Eduard Bauer field.

Host the next Schubertiaden were Sonnleithner among others, the painter Ludwig Mohn, the family of man break, the poet Franz von Schlechta, Eduard Bauer field and Schober's uncle Joseph Derffel, administrator of the castle Atzenbrugg. The last major Schubertiade the composer's lifetime took place on January 28, 1828 at Joseph von Spaun in his apartment in the so-called Wiener Klepper stables ( between Teinfaltstraße and Schreyvogelgasse ) in place. Shortly before this was in the fall of 1827 with Franz Schober by the composer " a circle of scary songs " - the great song cycle Winterreise - been presented ( announced by Schubert himself according to the recollections of Joseph Spaun with above words ). Through these and similar incidents which Schubertiaden are also relevant to the history of music.

Schubertiaden today

Since the 20th century, larger music festival, which mainly deal with Schubert's works were designated by the name " Schubertiade ", including in particular, founded by Hermann Prey and Gerd rebuilder Schubertiade in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg, in the towns of Hohenems and Schwarzenberg.

Other festival or concert programs, which bear the name " Schubertiade ", the coined by pianist Thomas Seyboldt " Schubertiade in the Ettlinger Schloss " in Ettlingen ( near Karlsruhe ), the " Schubertiade Castle Eyb " in Dörzbach (Hohenlohe ), the " Schubertiade Luxembourg "the" Schubertiade Zurich, "and the composer Schubert Vilabertran ( near Barcelona ). The Schubertiaden Schnackenburgallee take place in the town on the same year.