The Shepherd on the Rock
The Shepherd on the Rock (D 965 ) is a composition by Franz Schubert ( October / November 1828) after two poems by Wilhelm Müller and a poem by Karl August Varnhagen von Ense.
Genesis
About the mediation of their colleague Johann Michael Vogl which now in Berlin acting Viennese soprano Anna Pauline Milder -Hauptmann had taken about 1824 with Schubert Contact 1825 then several of his songs - Die Forelle, Suleika II and Erlkönig - premiered in Berlin and asked him, both to compose suitable for them in opera and songs. She let him know through intermediaries, that was her particularly concerned by a large multi-part vocal scene, served as her model of the greeting to the Switzerland of Carl Blum, who in turn was referring directly to one of her most popular roles that, Emmeline in Joseph Weigl's Swiss Family Sing a game that Schubert had already learned as a child, during one of his first visits to the opera at all. The Mild struck Schubert for their work commissioned various texts of each poem before, some of them had already dubbed her sister Jeanette burden.
It was only after repeated demands by the singer, for example, in the fall of 1828 when Ignaz Franz von Mosel, Schubert decided to take up the idea of the scene. So there was an approximately 12 minutes lasting composition for voice (soprano, also a boy soprano or tenor ), obbligato clarinet ( in the first edition alternatively cello) and piano. The title seems to Schubert to have elected himself, and he took the text of those poem editions of Wilhelm Müller ( poems from the posthumous papers of a French horn players traveling, vols 1 & 2, Dessau 1826), to whom he owed the lyrics to Beautiful Miller's Wife and winter travel, as well as Varnhagen Vermischte poems (Heidelberg 1816).
Performance history
The first performance by the Contracting Authority Milder, who received a copy of the music by Schubert's brother Ferdinand in 1829, took place on 10 February 1830, the House of Blackheads in Riga. On 21 March premieres concluded in Vienna ( by Caroline Make ) and on 14 December in Berlin ( by Milder -Hauptmann ).
Phonogram recordings there are of Arleen Augér, Elly Ameling, Isobel Baillie, Kathleen Battle, Erna Berger, Barbara Bonney, Helen Donath, Helena Dearing, Wilma Driessen, Gabriele Fontana, Ria broom, Edita Gruber, Barbara Hendricks, Gundula Janowitz, Aline Kutan, Dame Felicity Lott, Christa Ludwig, Ann Mackay, Edith Mathis, Akiko Nakajima, Sandrine Piau, Dame Margaret Price, Lan Rao, Margaret Ritchie, Sibylla Rubens, Lynda Russell, Lotte Beautiful, Elisabeth Schumann, Maria Stader, Rita Streich, Ailish Tynan Benita Valente, Maria Venuti and Edith Wiens and the boy soprano Max Emanuel Cencic and countertenor Bejun Mehta.
Text templates and form
The song is divided into three longer sections. First place in B- flat major after an extensive audition the sounds as instruments elegiac piano accompanied duet between the shepherd and his shawm - text from Wilhelm Müller's poem The Berghirt ():
If on the highest rock I stand, In's deep valley down seh ', And sing. Remote from the deep dark valley Swinging his way up the echoes The ravines. The further my voice, The brighter it sounds to me again From below. My darling lives so far from me, So I see ' me so hot for her Crossing over.
This is followed by a contrasting middle section resigned in G minor, modulating on -flat major, A minor to G major to - text from Varnhagen's poem romance or Nocturnal Sound ():
In deep sorrow I eat ' me, I am back the joy On earth I gave up hope, I 'm so lonely here. So longingly sounded in the forest the song, So longingly it sounded through the night, The hearts are drawn to the sky With wonderful power.
Finally, this penultimate composition Schubert ends with an uncharacteristic Cabaletta virtuoso turn in B flat major - text from Wilhelm Müller's poem thoughts of love ():
Spring will come, The spring, my joy, Now do I get ready Ready for hiking.
Sample
" The Shepherd on the Rock". Montserrat Alavedra i Comas (soprano), William McColl ( clarinet) and Joseph Levine (piano ) ( file? )