classicalmusichack: schubert's lost love

[mkawa]

herr franz has been my favorite composer since my teens, but something i didn't know was that despite his early death and well-known lifetime of malaise and illness (reminiscent of another of my favorite franz': one kafka), it is thought that he was actually driven by a single muse, a noblewoman he served as a tutor for in the german countryside;

http://www.mozartforum.com/VB_forum/showthread.php?t=3258

in particular (from the above): "The two main notes in the first theme in the Fantasy [in C major, op.17] of course mean 'Caroline-Franz-Caroline-Franz'."

anyway, fun fact for the day! feel free to turn this into a general music thread if you'd like.

[tp4tissue]

herr franz has been my favorite composer since my teens, but something i didn't know was that despite his early death and well-known lifetime of malaise and illness (reminiscent of another of my favorite franz': one kafka), it is thought that he was actually driven by a single muse, a noblewoman he served as a tutor for in the german countryside;

http://www.mozartforum.com/VB_forum/showthread.php?t=3258

in particular (from the above): "The two main notes in the first theme in the Fantasy [in C major, op.17] of course mean 'Caroline-Franz-Caroline-Franz'."

anyway, fun fact for the day! feel free to turn this into a general music thread if you'd like.

So, you're saying composers only do their stuff, when they're horny.... hmm.....

[mkawa]

that is not in any way, shape, or form what the OP says.

[tjcaustin]

tp being obtuse for the sake of being obtuse?! Noooo

[demik]

sounds like he wanted to get some buns to me

[Quarzac]

Chopin was sort of similar- he had a thing for a chick who went by George Sand. One of my favorite composers. I'm also a fan of Rachmaninoff.

[mkawa]

i've never really identified much with chopin; he just wasn't miserable enough.

[tp4tissue]

i've never really identified much with chopin; he just wasn't miserable enough.

I don't think any of the great composers were "that" miserable.. Sure, they lived in a more turbulent time in our history, but their lives due to their skills were FAR above the average of their time also...

So at the very worst, they were a "whiny" upper-middle class...

Mkawa, y u always mad at me bro?

[vivalarevolución]

Schubert was on the classical music station that wakes me up each morning. I enjoyed it, but I only heard the tail end of the piece and cut to commercial. Bummer.