My father (doctor by profession) taught himself to play this , and was quite good. He taught it to me when I was a young man. He wooed my stepmother with it in their courtship days. 40 years later, I played it during his long decline in health, and finally, on his piano at home during home hospice, when he could no longer communicate, but would conduct his fingers as I played. And then I played it as his funeral. When he was alive, and could still communicate, this would be the piece that could bring him into sharpest emotional focus (he would weep throughout, and tell me afterward it's impossible not to, because it's so F-ing gorgeous). This perfect composition has touched the lives of millions; this is how it touched my family and me.
Schubert is the only composer who frequently reduces me to tears. There is often so much pain but joy as as well of course. Which is how life is and perhaps that's the point. More than any other composer Schubert' s music is essentially about the human condition. Its brutally honest and therein lies it's greatness.
That slow movement of the String Quintet, in particular. It has a similar effect upon me to the slow movement of Rachmaninoff's second concerto. They reduce me to a wreck. I can cry simply by hearing them in my head.
Baroque composers are just as good if not better - some of Handel's arias whether in his Italian operas or English oratorios are so incredibly moving - 3 examples I can bring to mind being from" Rodelinda" with the aria" Dove sei amato bene" -which means "Where art thou my beloved." especially the version sung by Andreas Scholl. Then there is "Verdi allori" from "Orlando" (Green laurels" when the protagonist realizes he will never see his beloved again and he remembers the time when they carved the love heart on the trunk of the laurel tree and supremely many arias and duets in "Theodora" - When this work was performed at Glyndebourne the emotions in the audience were so great that ambulances were on stand by to take people to hospital!
I discovered this piece too late in life, I have played it now for years but it never ceases to grip my soul and bring me to tears. It is simple, yet requires such skill!
Yes, it requires great skill because this simple, hauntingly beautiful piece was composed in a stupid key. Gb… really?! To what end? Just to make it difficult. There’s no reason for it.
@@user-sg4ov7ng4h I suppose it is a philosophical question. I don't have a ready answer just an intuitive leaning. It seems to me that beauty exists in the world and geniuses reveal it to us.
As a twelve-year old, my first introduction to Schubert was "The Trout". I found it so dull and stilted that I never bothered to listen to another piece from him. Years later, his "Impromptu" shocked me with its sensitivity, and I then went on to discover his "Serenade", which in my opinion is one of the most elegant, soulful, and erotic compositions ever written.
I first heard “ The Trout” ( “ Die Forelle”, in German) when I was seventeen, and loved it. I love all of Schubert’s songs, but one of my favorites is “An Die Musik” ( “To Music”). In that song, the singer thanks the art of music for transporting him/her to a better world ( the words are by Schubert’s friend, Franz von Schober.) I also adore the song cycle, “Die Schöne Müllerin“ ( „The Miller‘s Beautiful Daughter.“)
There are a lot of reasons why a kid might love or hate "the trout" or any other piece of music, but the context in which it is performed and the quality of performance are pretty darn important.
The Trout is such a lovely, joyous piece of music. And so unhurried. When he gets to the end, he does the whole thing again, note for note, in a different key! It's like floating down the river in a punt on a relaxing afternoon. You are really selling it short by allowing your 12-year-old self to have the final word on it.
Chopin's first Etude in Op.25, in a-flat, also starts with a repeated "so", first five times, followed by "la" and then "so" five more times. It is also accompanied by an undulating left-hand line to create motion under the stillness.
I first heard this around 5 years ago when I watched Michael haneke’s film Amour and it has truly stuck with me since. I think it is one of the most beautiful pieces ever written… thank you for your video.
I haven't heard this piece before but this really is stunning! I feel like Schubert is so underrated and it's always great to find new pieces that are pretty but reasonably simple to play. Thanks for sharing this gem ♥
His Great Symphony #9 was my favorite, and first heard it in Music Appreciation class, along with many other composers' best classical pieces. Beethoven's 7th is another of my favorite symphonic pieces!
I learned a few instruments. Piano was my first. It's it a very advanced key and the Melodie is so subtle it is the equivalent of triple purified water. Pure perfection and beauty. My guess is only older souls could interpret this piece properly.
This piece is from Schubert's Opus 90, a set of four impromptus. That set was followed by another set of four, Opus 142 (D. 899 and D. 935 respectively). Look them up, you won't be sorry.
It’s incredible because on UA-cam videos I’ve seen, nobody seems to realize that Horowitz, who’s the interpret here, does a stunning re-harmonization of the original score at 0:23 🔥
There is other composer in the history of music who created so much music, of the most astounding quality, at such an early age. He died at 32! Most composers, if they had died at that point, even Beethoven, would not be nearly so famous. Just imagine if he had lived decades more. Perhaps he would have been declared the greatest of all time. Interesting that the three great composers who died at a very early age Schubert, Chopin and Mozart, are also the ones who had a body of work worthy of a very long lifetime. This Impromptu always brings tears to my eyes Is there anything more beautiful?
add the months from birth to death and you will probably then discover he lived more than 31 years .. which I think is what the '32' was alluding to. 😊
Schubert's Impromptus are all beautiful. No 2 has a section with triplets where the first note of each triplet forms the most beautiful melody inside a beautiful melody of triplets. They're all quite subtle, and complex compositions.
Such a lovely piece! I always feel that the second phrase starting bar 9 is picked up by Schumann in "Dichterliebe"s first song "Im wunderschlnen Monat Mai" where this phrase is combined with the text "Da ist in meinem Herzenen, die iebe aufgegangen / In my heart, love has risen". Which for me also perfectly matches the feel I get when hearing this phrase in the Schubert impromptu!
I sung Im wunderschonen. I didn’t realize that until you pointed it out. Im wunderschonen was an emotional roller coaster of a piece for my Senior Recital. The use of the dominant never finding a resolution. Beautiful.
I had over hundred LPs and bought a player to transcribe them into wav files but too late most of the LPs already warped beyond repair. 78s with the hard and heavy Bakelite should fair better. Got everything on CDs and copied onto hard drives now. Still people do get attached to the version they first heard.
I started playing this piece as the flawless recordings make it sound relatively easy and 'flowy'. Imagine my shock when I realised how difficult it actually was to retain the melody notes and make them stand out.
I share your re-experiencing again when older. If ONLY I knew then what I know now! As a kid at school I could never get Picasso. Now I mourn his passing with the full realisation of his gift to humanity.
This piece is currently in my repertoire, and I have to say this is one of the most beautiful piano pieces I have ever heard. And, surprisingly challenging in some ways. My piano is terrible at the moment so the voicing is quite difficult to achieve at the moment but still, whenever I get to play this piece on my teachers piano, it is an absolute treat.
The famous Russian composer Rachmaninov very accurately said - “ Music is enough for a lifetime but a lifetime is not enough for music”. Couldn’t agree more.
Also: note that Horowitz modifies the score at 0:22, instead of going directly from I-vi, he goes I-V7-vi (V7 is dominant seventh, idk music theory well enough to know what the correct term for it is)
The modification comes originally from Liszt, who edited Schubert's Impromptus in the late 1860s, in an edition published by Cotta. In addition to this harmonic change, Liszt - more significantly - develops the return to the A section by putting it up the octave, with rolling arpeggios in the left hand. Horowitz is not playing the Liszt version, but he must have liked that small harmonic change enough to add it into his own performance of Schubert's original.
I was forgotten before hearing this that a piano can be played so soft and delicate. I perhaps heard such a playing only a few time but this is exceptional. It must be the piano ;-)
I saw a Professor explain why a certain person, their personality denied them, from ever finding a partner. A million words to say, "the person is not nice." Now, Mr. Schubert..."That was beautiful."
oh! This video is wonderful thank you so much. It's one of my favorites to play. I think my favorite note in this section is the C natural in the measure at 1:37.
Horowitz uses a very interesting variation in measure 5 at 0:22 which is not indicated by the sheet music that you used for this video. Instead of playing the usual notes (Gb/Db in left, and Bb/Db/Gb/Bb in right) he switches to a B-flat dominant seventh chord (F/D in left, and Bb/D/Ab/Bb). A few believe that this variation that Horowitz included was from a special arrangement of the piece by Liszt which transposed it from G-flat, to G.
Here is my ultimate desert island piano piece. Lieder-like in it’s memorable melody. The one recording that affects me most can be found on the final Dinu Lipatti recital recorded a couple of months before he passed away. Schubert outdid himself, IMO, in this inspired moment & it is perfection itself & not surprising at all considering his background in song composition.
Thanks. I have compiled my own requeim to be played on my last journey, along with this piece there are other pieces, e. g. Saint Saens "Dying Swan" and Brahms's 1st movement of "A German Requeim" and some other Baroque pieces by Albinoni et al.
This incredibly moving piece occurs in that movie starring Maggie Smith and the writer Bennett about the crazy lady who lived in a van in Bennet's front yard (True story) She had trained as a classical pianist but went on the run when she accidentally killed a motorcyclist while driving her car.
Ebb and flow
Underrated comment
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Yes, it did fall rather flat.
this video was really boring
@@MikehMike01 no one asked
@@MikehMike01you’ll get it
My father (doctor by profession) taught himself to play this , and was quite good. He taught it to me when I was a young man. He wooed my stepmother with it in their courtship days. 40 years later, I played it during his long decline in health, and finally, on his piano at home during home hospice, when he could no longer communicate, but would conduct his fingers as I played. And then I played it as his funeral. When he was alive, and could still communicate, this would be the piece that could bring him into sharpest emotional focus (he would weep throughout, and tell me afterward it's impossible not to, because it's so F-ing gorgeous). This perfect composition has touched the lives of millions; this is how it touched my family and me.
What a wonderful day to be able to read, thank you for sharing
Beautiful words. Thank you.
We should all be as fortunate as you to have that close a bond with our Dads.
What a beautiful story. And such lovely music. I’m sorry for the loss of your beloved father.
You must
It is just beautiful.
Schubert is the only composer who frequently reduces me to tears. There is often so much pain but joy as as well of course. Which is how life is and perhaps that's the point. More than any other composer Schubert' s music is essentially about the human condition. Its brutally honest and therein lies it's greatness.
That slow movement of the String Quintet, in particular. It has a similar effect upon me to the slow movement of Rachmaninoff's second concerto. They reduce me to a wreck. I can cry simply by hearing them in my head.
Its odd Schubert is a great composer but never affected me much. Taste is strange, my loss not yours.
Beethoven - hold my beer
Baroque composers are just as good if not better - some of Handel's arias whether in his Italian operas or English oratorios are so incredibly moving - 3 examples I can bring to mind being from" Rodelinda" with the aria" Dove sei amato bene" -which means "Where art thou my beloved." especially the version sung by Andreas Scholl. Then there is "Verdi allori" from "Orlando" (Green laurels" when the protagonist realizes he will never see his beloved again and he remembers the time when they carved the love heart on the trunk of the laurel tree and supremely many arias and duets in "Theodora" - When this work was performed at Glyndebourne the emotions in the audience were so great that ambulances were on stand by to take people to hospital!
@@alanrobertson9790that’s what makes a horserace. I love Schubert, you don’t and that’s fine. The composer I don’t get at all is Schumann.
One of my favourite composers. And died at 31 years of age. We can only wonder at what he would have achieved had he lived another 20 years.
If hadn't been shagging around..and caught syphillis...he'd have bewn around a lot longer.
Apparently God took him because he had already done his Best!
@@sandrapaton3787Well, I'm not sure about God. Franz had syphilis and died of thyphoïd fever...
@@blazingchris5048 oops! Quite right God didn’t have a hand in that mess!
@@sandrapaton3787 You're being ironic, I hope.
In Horowitz's hands every note and harmony makes sense. True mastery!
One of the most exquisite bitter-sweet pieces ever, I used to play it many years ago. It is one of those pieces that just grabs you!
I couldn't agree more. The tears flow every time.
This will forever be one of my favorite piano pieces. If there’s an afterlife, this is what it sounds like to glimpse it.
There is a Heaven, and the music there will make this sound like a squeaky wheel.
@@analogman9697 I don’t personally believe that, but if you do, I’m happy for you.
I believe in heaven, and am happy to believe that this impromptu is a glimpse …. God bless Schubert.
@@analogman9697why are we trashing good musicians tho and comparing it to smth youve never heard yet
If there is a Heaven, I hope I’ll be able to meet all the great composers and hear them play their own music, as it sounded originally. 🎼
That Ebb note is magical.
what would it be microtonally?
It's not microtonal
@@MrAzureJames E𝄳𝄳𝄳𝄳
@@MrAzureJamesno, just 2 half steps from E (D)
@@felixclm if it were on an antique microtonal organ it would just be D?
I discovered this piece too late in life, I have played it now for years but it never ceases to grip my soul and bring me to tears. It is simple, yet requires such skill!
Yes, it requires great skill because this simple, hauntingly beautiful piece was composed in a stupid key. Gb… really?! To what end? Just to make it difficult. There’s no reason for it.
The two sets of impromptues written by Schubert are in my opinion the most beautiful piano work ever created.
It's even more incredible on some accounts on how fast he wrote them! I read somewhere that he'd written this particular one in a day!
@@skylarlimex OMG
Is music created.... or discovered?
@@cblseis that a philosophical question? whats your answer?
@@user-sg4ov7ng4h I suppose it is a philosophical question. I don't have a ready answer just an intuitive leaning. It seems to me that beauty exists in the world and geniuses reveal it to us.
As a twelve-year old, my first introduction to Schubert was "The Trout". I found it so dull and stilted that I never bothered to listen to another piece from him. Years later, his "Impromptu" shocked me with its sensitivity, and I then went on to discover his "Serenade", which in my opinion is one of the most elegant, soulful, and erotic compositions ever written.
I loved the ""Trout" when I heard it at around the same age. I often wonder why we have certain reactions hardwired into us at a young age.
@@GreenTeaViewer Well, whenever I hear "The Trout", I want to run away, so it may possibly be part of our individual survival instincts!
I first heard “ The Trout” ( “ Die Forelle”, in German) when I was seventeen, and loved it. I love all of Schubert’s songs, but one of my favorites is “An Die Musik” ( “To Music”). In that song, the singer thanks the art of music for transporting him/her to a better world ( the words are by Schubert’s friend, Franz von Schober.) I also adore the song cycle, “Die Schöne Müllerin“ ( „The Miller‘s Beautiful Daughter.“)
There are a lot of reasons why a kid might love or hate "the trout" or any other piece of music, but the context in which it is performed and the quality of performance are pretty darn important.
The Trout is such a lovely, joyous piece of music. And so unhurried. When he gets to the end, he does the whole thing again, note for note, in a different key! It's like floating down the river in a punt on a relaxing afternoon. You are really selling it short by allowing your 12-year-old self to have the final word on it.
Oh my goodness, how incredibly beautiful!!!
Beautiful ... I can hear strains from Schubert's own ' Ave Maria '
Chopin's first Etude in Op.25, in a-flat, also starts with a repeated "so", first five times, followed by "la" and then "so" five more times. It is also accompanied by an undulating left-hand line to create motion under the stillness.
Schubert is so awesome
One of my favourite pieces by Schubert. It's so beautiful ❤️
I remember a concert at a friend's place where this was played. Some people cried .
Soothing for the soul, thank you!
I've never had such a good music appreciation lesson - thank you!
Ahh that's very kind of you! Thanks for the comment
I first heard this around 5 years ago when I watched Michael haneke’s film Amour and it has truly stuck with me since. I think it is one of the most beautiful pieces ever written… thank you for your video.
The first time I heard this Impromptu, its beauty hooked me for life. I especially love Horowitz's interpretation.
I haven't heard this piece before but this really is stunning! I feel like Schubert is so underrated and it's always great to find new pieces that are pretty but reasonably simple to play. Thanks for sharing this gem ♥
Schubert is grossly underrated really...
@@skylarlimex agreed! Had Schubert lived longer, I reckon he might have reached the likes of Mozart and Beethoven
@@vibey8558 I think he might have even surpassed them considering what he had already achieved by such a young age
@@skylarlimex Yep. At their ends, Beethoven was on a dead end, and Mozart was pretty much finished, same Bach. Schubert was still rolling!
i want to forget this piece just to discover it again you lucky 😁
Such a sad beautiful serene melody.
His Great Symphony #9 was my favorite, and first heard it in Music Appreciation class, along with many other composers' best classical pieces. Beethoven's 7th is another of my favorite symphonic pieces!
Schubert was a creative genius.Not of this world but from a heavenly place.
I never studied music so I have no understanding of all the writing but I can appreciate the melody on this piano and I wished to hear more.
I learned a few instruments. Piano was my first. It's it a very advanced key and the Melodie is so subtle it is the equivalent of triple purified water. Pure perfection and beauty. My guess is only older souls could interpret this piece properly.
This piece is from Schubert's Opus 90, a set of four impromptus. That set was followed by another set of four, Opus 142 (D. 899 and D. 935 respectively). Look them up, you won't be sorry.
It’s incredible because on UA-cam videos I’ve seen, nobody seems to realize that Horowitz, who’s the interpret here, does a stunning re-harmonization of the original score at 0:23 🔥
A beautiful brilliant Schubert composition ⭐️
This man’s music was a gift to the world ❤
Thank you for making this! I enjoy this kind of content!
I adore this piece, especially this interpretation by Horowitz. It's heart breaking.
There is other composer in the history of music who created so much music, of the most astounding quality, at such an early age. He died at 32! Most composers, if they had died at that point, even Beethoven, would not be nearly so famous.
Just imagine if he had lived decades more. Perhaps he would have been declared the greatest of all time. Interesting that the three great composers who died at a very early age Schubert, Chopin and Mozart, are also the ones who had a body of work worthy of a very long lifetime.
This Impromptu always brings tears to my eyes Is there anything more beautiful?
He was actually only 31 when he died.
@@eyuin5716Then he had lived 32 years.
@@taniacummings9207 He lived from 1797 - 1828. Did you flunk out of basic math?
add the months from birth to death and you will probably then discover he lived more than 31 years .. which I think is what the '32' was alluding to. 😊
Schubert's Impromptus are all beautiful. No 2 has a section with triplets where the first note of each triplet forms the most beautiful melody inside a beautiful melody of triplets. They're all quite subtle, and complex compositions.
Such a lovely piece! I always feel that the second phrase starting bar 9 is picked up by Schumann in "Dichterliebe"s first song "Im wunderschlnen Monat Mai" where this phrase is combined with the text "Da ist in meinem Herzenen, die iebe aufgegangen / In my heart, love has risen". Which for me also perfectly matches the feel I get when hearing this phrase in the Schubert impromptu!
I sung Im wunderschonen. I didn’t realize that until you pointed it out. Im wunderschonen was an emotional roller coaster of a piece for my Senior Recital. The use of the dominant never finding a resolution. Beautiful.
I came here to comment the same thing
Virtually everything that Schubert composed was perfection. Shame we don't have composers like this today.
Excellent analysis...beautiful music written on paper brought to life!
Beautiful piece from long ago. ❤❤❤
That little improvisation at 0:21 is AWESOME I ADORE IT
Very beautifully played. Thank you.
This is instantly calming.
awesome--would love to see more videos like this,. Very nice work.
Very pretty.
Thank you.
Wonderful analysis. I would enjoy a full performance, bitte.
I have Schubert s Unfinished on a set of 78s, conducted by Sir Henry Wood that I still love to play! I must get them transferred to a DVD🧐
I had over hundred LPs and bought a player to transcribe them into wav files but too late most of the LPs already warped beyond repair. 78s with the hard and heavy Bakelite should fair better. Got everything on CDs and copied onto hard drives now. Still people do get attached to the version they first heard.
Yes. One of my favourite piano pieces.
I started playing this piece as the flawless recordings make it sound relatively easy and 'flowy'. Imagine my shock when I realised how difficult it actually was to retain the melody notes and make them stand out.
I share your re-experiencing again when older. If ONLY I knew then what I know now! As a kid at school I could never get Picasso. Now I mourn his passing with the full realisation of his gift to humanity.
This Piano masterpiece has lots of emotional involvement.
A sublime composition.
Only a beautiful mind can create such beauty ❤
This piece is currently in my repertoire, and I have to say this is one of the most beautiful piano pieces I have ever heard. And, surprisingly challenging in some ways. My piano is terrible at the moment so the voicing is quite difficult to achieve at the moment but still, whenever I get to play this piece on my teachers piano, it is an absolute treat.
I love Schubert for his ability to mimic other very famous composers yet compose original themes.
To tease the resolution so masterfully
I know nothing about classical music. I find this enchanting.
Welcome to the most beautiful of all music; a wonderful adventure awaits you. Embrace it.
You dont have to know anything, just enjoy it. Honestly the only thing stopping people from loving all genres is preconceptio s
Listen to clair de lune
The famous Russian composer Rachmaninov very accurately said - “ Music is enough for a lifetime but a lifetime is not enough for music”. Couldn’t agree more.
If you find this enchanting you know just enough ✨☺️
Genius! Incredible melodic progression! 😯
Absolutely beautiful! I look forward to learning how to play this piece!
Horowitz.... how does he do it... amazing color, phrasing, tone, space, everything.
Sensitive playing.
Amazing piece! Btw it kinda reminds me of Liebestraum no.3
Très belle interprétation, toute en nuance, toute en retenue. Merci !
Great analysis again, well done !
Thanks as always!
I played this one just a couple days ago! This one and the E flat impromptu are both super pretty and fun to play.
Lovely! Absolutely lovely!❤
Thanks so much!
Also: note that Horowitz modifies the score at 0:22, instead of going directly from I-vi, he goes I-V7-vi (V7 is dominant seventh, idk music theory well enough to know what the correct term for it is)
Interesting because I didn't hear that in other interpretations
Yup I suspect it’s a Horowitz thing but a very good addition to this repeated phrase where it continues to the vi.
@@skylarlimex yeah Horowitz loves playing with the score and making his improvements
The modification comes originally from Liszt, who edited Schubert's Impromptus in the late 1860s, in an edition published by Cotta. In addition to this harmonic change, Liszt - more significantly - develops the return to the A section by putting it up the octave, with rolling arpeggios in the left hand. Horowitz is not playing the Liszt version, but he must have liked that small harmonic change enough to add it into his own performance of Schubert's original.
@@jamesandrewes9640 thanks for that very interesting side note! I definitely wouldn't have known that
I didn't know this piece. Thank you, it is beautiful beyond words...
Melodically beautiful! Bravo! 🙏🙏❤️
Great analysis!! Thanks❤👏👏
Beautiful.
It's beautiful
Thanks for your guidance.
It's beautiful...I heard it quite a while back but didn't make a note of the title...Thanks
my favourite piece to play. love it so much!
Nice tune
Achingly beautiful. Indeed. And a wonderful tonic, a refuge for only a few, gentle souls who care to take the time to listen
This piece is pure bliss!
I was forgotten before hearing this that a piano can be played so soft and delicate. I perhaps heard such a playing only a few time but this is exceptional. It must be the piano ;-)
Very nice way to explain the music!
Thank you very much!
Thank you for watching!
Beautifully played 🙏❤️
this piece is on my playlist wow
quite beautiful!
Schubert made the most beautiful melodies, for me.
I saw a Professor explain why a certain person, their personality denied them, from ever finding a partner. A million words to say, "the person is not nice." Now, Mr. Schubert..."That was beautiful."
SCHUBERT WROTE MUSIC FROM HIS HEART AND SOUL. Every one of these Impromptus have a special place in mine.
oh! This video is wonderful thank you so much. It's one of my favorites to play. I think my favorite note in this section is the C natural in the measure at 1:37.
Beautiful!
Thank you for your wonderful analysis. Sing several of his lieder, and mourn the shortness of his life.
That c-flat is utterly divine
That is beautiful.
You should cover the no. 1 of this op 90 too. It’s magical and emotional. A big adventure
Definitely one of my favourites!
Horowitz uses a very interesting variation in measure 5 at 0:22 which is not indicated by the sheet music that you used for this video. Instead of playing the usual notes (Gb/Db in left, and Bb/Db/Gb/Bb in right) he switches to a B-flat dominant seventh chord (F/D in left, and Bb/D/Ab/Bb). A few believe that this variation that Horowitz included was from a special arrangement of the piece by Liszt which transposed it from G-flat, to G.
It written as Horowitz plays it in Edition Peters produced by Walter Neimann.
I wouldnt go so far as to say achingly. Barber's Adagio is achingly beautiful. This is more like pleasantly pretty.
I loved this so much as a student I had to write lyrics to it ❤️ So charming yet bittersweet
fun fact i have sobbed to this song
i saw ur title and immediately thought, no, said out loud, "which one!..." great analysis
Here is my ultimate desert island piano piece. Lieder-like in it’s memorable melody. The one recording that affects me most can be found on the final Dinu Lipatti recital recorded a couple of months before he passed away. Schubert outdid himself, IMO, in this inspired moment & it is perfection itself & not surprising at all considering his background in song composition.
Thanks. I have compiled my own requeim to be played on my last journey, along with this piece there are other pieces, e. g. Saint Saens "Dying Swan" and Brahms's 1st movement of "A German Requeim" and some other Baroque pieces by Albinoni et al.
This incredibly moving piece occurs in that movie starring Maggie Smith and the writer Bennett about the crazy lady who lived in a van in Bennet's front yard (True story) She had trained as a classical pianist but went on the run when she accidentally killed a motorcyclist while driving her car.
Beautiful piece. At 0:24 we hear a different bass note and harmoniy than the written one, I think it's the 3rd of V/vi.