What does the piano represent in Die Forelle?

The primary rhythmic figure in the piano accompaniment suggests the movement of the fish in the water. When the fisherman catches the trout, the vocal line changes from major to minor, the piano figuration becomes darker and the flowing phrases are “broken by startled rests”.

What texture is Die Forelle?

Texture: Homophonic with piano accompanying voice. relatively consistent throughout the whole piece.

Who wrote the text for Die Forelle?

Franz Schubert
Die Forelle, (German: “The Trout”) song setting for voice and piano by Franz Schubert, composed about 1817 (with later revisions), with words by Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart.

Why was Die Forelle written by Christian Schubart?

Those who have managed to stay awake during our marathon tour through the biography of an almost forgotten eighteenth-century figure may just have enough energy left to agree that the poem Die Forelle seems now to be a allegory of its author’s capture and imprisonment at the hands of Carl Eugen, Duke of Württemberg.

What is the meaning of the word launisch?

The modern meaning of launisch is ‘moody’. Gestade is an equivalent for the more usual Ufer, ‘the bank of a stream or river’. The text that Franz Schubert used had the variant Des muntern Fischleins Bade.

Where did the song Die Forelle come from?

The song’s lyrics were written from the perspective of an onlooker on a riverbank taking pleasure in watching the “happy little fish” swimming in the river. Soon a fisherman arrives and, much to the onlooker’s dismay, catches the trout. (For his song, Schubert eliminated Schubart’s final moralizing verse.)

Who is the singer of Die Forelle by Franz Schubert?

She serves on the music faculty of Metropolitan State University of Denver and gives pre-performance talks for Opera Colorado and the Colorado Symphony… Excerpt from Franz Schubert’s “Die Forelle” (“The Trout”); from a 1948 recording by soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and pianist Karl Hudez.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag_Pm_pfCzs