The CAMROSE BOOSTER, November 16, 2021 – Page 13
Songs of Vienna
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Franz Schubert. Johannes Brahms. These composers are very familiar names, and perhaps many readers will also know that all three are famously associated with Vienna, Europe’s socalled “City of Music” and the birthplace of European modernism, which would shape much of the musical culture of the 20th century. The funny thing about Alexander Carpenter, these famous “Viennese” Music, composers is that virtually University of Alberta none of them were actually Augustana Campus Viennese, with the notable exception of Schubert. He was born in what is now the city’s ninth district, the Alsergrund, in 1797. Schubert is best known for the more than 600 songs he wrote for voice and piano, but he was also a prolific composer of symphonic music, chamber music, and works for solo piano. His music is dramatic, harmonically adventurous and melodic, blending the charm of Viennese classicism with the darker, more expressive impulses of early Romanticism. In recent years, musicological scholarship has examined the possibility that Schubert was a homosexual, and that some of his music might (somehow) reflect this reality. Mozart is especially linked with Vienna: visitors are inundated with Mozart memorabilia, part of the city’s efforts to maintain its 18th century patina, and to hold on to the fading glow of its glorious Imperial age, exemplified by the splendor of its neo-classical architecture and reinforced by the ubiquitous concerts featuring the “greatest hits” of Mozart (along with a liberal dose of Strauss waltzes). However, Mozart–one of the greatest “Viennese” classical masters–was from Salzburg, not Vienna. In 1781, after years of touring Europe, mastering the popular Italian opera styles, and gaining fame all over the continent, he moved permanently to Vienna to seek his fortune. Mozart was eager for a lucrative court appointment, which proved elusive. He lived lavishly and sometimes struggled to make ends meet. He was finally appointed to a modest position at court in 1787, after which time he composed some of his greatest operas, symphonies, and solo keyboard music, even as his popularity as a performer and composers in Vienna was–unbelievably–in decline. So, not only was Mozart not Viennese, nor did he live in the city very long, but he also found himself, at the very peak of his creative genius, falling out of favour with the famously fickle Viennese audiences. Brahms was also not Viennese. He was a German (born in Hamburg), but he settled in Vienna in 1863 and was eventually appointed conductor of one of Vienna’s most famous choirs, the Wiener Singakademie. Compared to Schubert and Mozart, Brahms was something of a “late bloomer”: extremely anxious about following in the footsteps of the great Beethoven, Brahms didn’t compose his first symphony until he was 43 (and he even modelled it after Beethoven’s iconic fifth symphony). Brahms enjoyed considerable fame during his Vienna years, but also became embroiled in the most important aesthetic debates of the 19th century. Brahms represented a more conservative, classically-oriented approach to music that featured complex counterpoint and motivic development, in sharp contrast to the high Romanticism of other composers like Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt, whose music privileged the expression of powerful feelings and ideas. Ultimately, it doesn’t seem to matter whether a composer was Viennese born; breathing the air and walking the cobbled streets of the “City of Music”–a city with music deep within its bones, as the Viennese music critic Max Graf once observed–was certainly more than enough for composers like Mozart, Schubert, and Brahms to have absorbed the Viennese musical spirit, and to become emblems of the city’s style and history. For those interested in experiencing these “Viennese” composers, on Sunday, November 27, the Augustana Campus of the University of Alberta will host the concert Songs of Vienna. The concert will feature piano and vocal music by Schubert, Mozart, and Brahms, performed at the Lougheed Performing Arts Centre by pianist Dr. Roger Admiral and soprano Nicole Brooks.
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