Talk:String Quintet (Schubert)

Funeral music
On the edit http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=String_Quintet_%28Schubert%29&diff=30382460&oldid=26418808 : I wonder if there is a reference for this. I found this on the Internet: "Well, I once listened to an interview with Artur Rubinstein, the great pianist, on the radio program Desert Island Discs. He confessed how this String Quintet was the music he'd choose to listen to on his own deathbed." (http://www.6moons.com/worldmusic/casals.html) Funeral is not deathbed, and the work is more than the second movement. Perhaps delete the whole paragraph? Lambiam 13:02, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Why delete anything? I heard the Desert Island Discs interview and Rubenstein said that the adagio was what he wanted at his deathbed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.241.99.218 (talk • contribs) 07:51, March 17, 2007 (UTC)
 * Resolved: I've sourced this to Julian Haylock's liner notes for the Raphael Ensemble recording on Hyperion. mcoverdale (talk) 01:35, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

Composition date trivia
''String Quintet in C major, D. 956, op. posth. 163, is a piece of chamber music written by Franz Schubert. It was composed shortly after his Ninth Symphony during the summer of 1828, two months before his death''

this seems to suggest the 9th was also composed (or at least finished) in '28, whereas the 9th Symphony page suggests it was the 10th that was started/worked on during '28, and the 9th was finished 2 years earlier.. can someone please clarify? Boombaard 20:09, 29 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I didn't even notice the mistake. I've now corrected it. For more information read in the symphony's article. Gidip 18:11, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Publication date ambiguity
From the first paragraph :-

From section "Historical context and significance" :-
 * The String Quintet in C major, D. 956, op. posth. 163, is a piece of chamber music written by Franz Schubert. It was composed during the summer of 1828, two months before his death, and is Schubert's final chamber work.[1] The Quintet was first performed on 17 November 1850 at the Musikverein in Vienna; it was published in 1853.

Which is the correct one?
 * The string quintet was completed sometime in September or early October 1828, but it was not published until 1883 or 1884.

Duncan Pearson (talk) 12:08, 25 October 2011 (UTC)


 * I have revised to eliminate inconsistencies regarding dates of composition, performance, and publication. mcoverdale (talk) 20:54, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

Grammatical Clarification needed
The last sentence of the "instrumentation section" is a bit unclear, and upon further reflection, grammatically incorrect. The last part states: Schubert's use of the second cello is very different from Boccherini's, who uses the additional cello to create an additional viola line.

I don't think it is extremely clear who the "who" in the sentence refers to. My interpretation of the current text would be that Boccherrini used an additional cello in his String quintet's to create an additional viola line. However, the "who" grammatically can refer only to Shubert's use or Boccherini's use, and where "use" is the antecedent noun. So this is incorrect usage as "who" should refer to a person. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.160.106.116 (talk) 00:26, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

What are you talking about? You just said that the sentence can be interpreted in two different ways, one of which is gramatically incorrect. You just resolved your own problem. --2003:4C:6D45:BB4C:3554:8D5A:1166:57E5 (talk) 11:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)