Path 09
Fifteen kinds of work
One work for each kind in the catalog, from the symphony to choral music.
Beethoven → Vivaldi → Debussy → Holst → Dvořák → Mozart → Chopin → Scarlatti → Bach → Schubert → Strauss → Handel
Four Last Songs, TrV 296
This guide follows Strauss’s Four Last Songs, TrV 296 (1948) in four parts: Frühling (Allegretto), September (Andante), Beim Schlafengehen (Andante) and Im Abendrot (Andante).
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Follow all 25 sections as they play
- IFrühling ()
- IISeptember ()
- IIIBeim Schlafengehen ()
- IVIm Abendrot ()
IFrühling ()0:39–4:18
Frühling (Spring) is the only song of the four that is not about death. A short leads to the first (A). The music climbs out of a murky, wintry sound into fresh spring, with soaring vocal lines and flutes that suggest birdsong. Interludes separate the verses (B and C), and the follows.
- A
IISeptember ()4:37–9:44
IIIBeim Schlafengehen ()10:15–16:08
IVIm Abendrot ()16:39–24:35
Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.
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Path 13
The art song, from Schubert to Strauss
A poem, a voice and a piano, later an orchestra: from Schubert's first masterpieces to Strauss's last songs.
Schubert → Schumann → Wagner → Mahler → Debussy → Fauré → Strauss
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