C758 Schubert's Sonata

After the last syllable, Shen Yi slightly lowered her head and pursed her lips to recover her calm thoughts.

Hayden's song played really made one feel both physically and mentally happy. She needed to calm down a bit to avoid bringing the feelings of this song into the next song.

The examiners did not say anything about Shen Yi's short recovery. They all lowered their heads to fill out the forms and occasionally whispered a few words to each other.

Shen Yi emptied her thoughts for a while and confirmed that she had completely calmed down before she said, "The second song, Schubert's Piano Sonata No. 16, D845."

As soon as she finished speaking, Shen Yi's finger had already fallen.

A Minor, Piano Sonata D845, was written in 1825. After it was completed, it was dedicated to Grand Duke Rudolph.

Schubert was one of the publicly acknowledged founders of romantic music in the world's music history. Because he had composed more than 600 popular artistic songs, he was called the "King of Songs." It was also because of this halo that his piano sonata did not receive much attention at that time. But in fact, the piano sonata held a very special position in Schubert's music composition. From 1815 to 13 years before his death in 1828, he had been persisting in the creation of piano sonata.

As the first piano sonata that was published when he was alive, this song not only expressed the complex emotional changes in the composer's heart, but also the perfect pursuit of his ideals. It also developed the composing technique to a new height through inheritance and innovation. It established the direction for the development of music during the Romance Era and inherited and developed the main characteristics of Beethoven's composing. It formed a unique artistic characteristic. In terms of the singing nature of the melody, the dramatic content, the emotional sadness, and other aspects, it did not give the song a completely different artistic tendency.

This song not only became the most representative piece of Schubert's composing at that time, it also marked the time when Schubert's composing gradually began from the beginning to gradually form the unique style of his own musical language from the beginning. It made the song one of the more important pieces in Schubert's work.

And the fourth chapter that Shen Yi was going to play today was actually the last chapter of the entire piece. To a large extent, the emotions and changes in the second and third chapters were more abundant than the fourth chapter that was summarized at the end. However, due to the ingenious arrangement of the tune, the repeated movements highlighted the extreme uneasiness. The interesting singing characteristics and the octave of the left and right hands deeply attracted Shen Yi.

Speaking up to this point, she could not help but mention the background of the composition at that time.

Schubert's life was not as optimistic and positive as Hayden's. On the contrary, in his era, after the utopia royal family regained its governance, not only did they have extreme control over the country, but they were also constantly oppressing people and freedom of speech. This caused the vast majority of the intellectual community to be unable to produce the belief and ideals of revolution, and they could only seek solace through their dreams and fantasies. Thus, this dark and lifeless living environment caused Schubert's music tendencies to be negatively affected.

There were even people who had once described the A minor piano sonata D845 as the sad sonata in Schubert's piano sonata.

However, such a metaphor was actually not appropriate, because in this piano sonata, it was the same as Sorrow Sonata. ... Schubert displayed more of the characteristics of the music's original body, and not just the characteristics of sadness in his emotions. Observing the background, this was actually Schubert's reflection and resistance towards fate. Therefore, this piano sonata not only displayed the transcendence and sublimation of reality, but also the pursuit and persistence of Schubert towards his ideals.

Thus, the difficulty of this piece might be slightly lower than the previous Hayden song. However, the richness of its emotions could not be compared to the previous piece. This was also the piece that Shen Yi played. The details that needed to be paid attention to.