Julius Reubke - Piano Sonata (GSARCI VIDEO REVIVAL)
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- "What does your conscience say?" Nietzsche asks. "You shall become who you are." A peculiarly poignant question mark hangs over the works of young composers cut off at the moment of realization -- Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, for instance, Guillaume Lekeu, Lili Boulanger, or Julius Reubke. Qualities suggesting genius vary widely, but in every case, though we cannot say who these eternally young people might have become, there is no doubt they would have been, each, someone to be reckoned with. The 22-year-old Reubke came to Weimar in 1856 a fledgeling composer but a formidable pianist whose promise was immediately recognized by Liszt, who drew Reubke into the charmed circle of brilliant youngsters from all over the world who came to study piano with him, a band that included Hans von Bülow, Carl Tausig, Hans von Bronsart, Karl Klindworth, and Alexander Ritter, to name the most prominent, as well as poet and composer Peter Cornelius and the composer Joachim Raff. A Scherzo and Mazurka from Reubke's student days demonstrate the influence of Chopin, Weber, and Mendelssohn given a fillip by Reubke's preternatural facility at the piano. But it was Liszt's example which spurred him to embark upon the task of creating himself. Liszt's sonata, completed in 1853, has become so banefully familiar that we forget it was an avant-garde work, as we now say, a primary item of "the music of the future" in the parlance of its time, that is, music whose methods and portent made a decisive break with the past that were not readily understood. Notoriously, the 20 year-old Brahms fell asleep as Liszt performed it for him. But Reubke grasped it at once and the wonder is how completely he assimilated the Lisztian manner, the tightly organized single-movement form, thematic metamorphoses, virtuosic rhetorical flourishes, episodes of great dash, and moment melting into crooning lyricism against a backdrop of titanic struggle inform his piano sonata (1857). With hindsight, Reubke's virtuosic turbulence looms as the struggle of a personality being born, though winged with the attractiveness of prodigious youth imperishably captured. Critic Richard Pohl recalled the composer "Playing us his sonata...sunk in his creation, Reubke forgot everything about him, and we then looked at his pale appearance, at the unnatural shine of his gleaming eyes, heard his heavy breath, and were aware of how wordless fatigue overwhelmed him after such hours of excitement -- we suspected then that he would not be with us long."
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Original audio: • Reubke - Piano Sonata ...
Original sheet music: imslp.org
I. Allegro maestoso.
II. Andante sostenuto. 13:52
III. Allegro assai. 20:34
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Consider it an honor.
@@thenameisgsarci I do!
If you like this, give a listen to Reubke's Sonata on the 94th Psalm in C minor (1857) for organ. Reubke is a truly outstanding composer.
It's incredible that this sonata was written in middle 1800
I love this sonata! Especially the Allegro assai (20:35)... One of Hexameron's uploads I always went back to.
Reubke's early death was definitely a terrible loss
A fantastic sonata.
5:11 is just absolutely stunning!
I return to this piece every now and then. It is worth getting to know it deeply, as I did when I listened to it obsessively when I first discovered it. Someone I thought could have altered the history of music, but there’s nothing to be done about that, and I like what came after anyway.
I understand his very existence on the scene would have altered musical history, but I mean in a major way, as in someone who might have competed with Brahms on an instrumental basis.
This could definitely be Liszt's Piano Sonata No. 2
yup
I've only listened to the first 10 seconds but I agree
EXACTLY!!!!! How sure are we this piece doesn’t belong to Liszt?
Actually third sonata because Liszt has Dante Sonata and Sonata in b
Thank you for posting this, there are many similarities to Liszt here, but the story you have attached explains it all, and gives me greater respect for both composers. This is a wonderful sonata.
I'm glad you liked it. :)
16:43 My God, that is just majestic.
I listened to it YEARS ago... didn't remember it very well... but wow! quite a work... you can see Liszt's influence all over it...
As we rave about a particular composition it is important to remember the virtuoso pianists whose abilities bring it to life, for better or worse.
I'd never heard of this composer before. I think he popped up from all the Alkan I've been listening to. This is absolutely beautiful.
Outstanding sonata; a truly visceral and majestic expression of struggle and triumph.
Among organists, some of whom I knew in college days, Reubke is well-known for his organ sonata, which is notorious for its hideous difficulty. This is the first I've come across the piano sonata!
I knew beforehand that Reubke was organist himself, but this sounds like "orgelwerke" indeed, although Chopin would be proud. Wow! So, it is not just 94th psalm, I see it now! What I waste to the music - to have so little left of this genius.
5:10 the way Reubke employs the three hand effect is as good as those in the earlier romantics!
15:20 - It is so beautifully.. Amazingly! Julius Reubke - genius ... Great composer!
I'm crying I'm crying... ! I know this piece by hearth since 20 years..... this is.... I'm out of anything, GENIOUS, it is so good that I can't comment on it all The instrument is unbelievable and so the pianist... I feelin out of the universe.... What is this instrument?
Me thinks I hear some similarities in style and mood to the Liszt Sonata in Bm. Not sure which came first. An amazing work.
Reubke finished his sonata 4 years after Liszt finished his.
Fantastic work, full of musicality and with an exceptional virtuosity. The end of the sonata could have been written by Liszt himself with its spectacular octaves.
Yes. An amazing talent. Tears and applause. Liszt was devastated when he passed away. Crazy force of nature. Piano explore.
I didnt know Ferencz Liszt composed two B minor sonatas.
Uhmmm... no, he didn't.
+thenameisgsarci I know he didnt but this one is way too influenced by Liszt.
Of course, I was expecting you to say that.
+jennifergala Bb minor in this case :)
+Serge Bayet I am aware of it.
An excellent performance!
By whom? I don't see......
Stevee GALLO Till Fellner
I love Hamish Milne's interpretation! Decca, on Spotify. ❤️
This sonata sounds like it could have easily been written 50 years later from when it was written.
25:50 peaceful sonorities - very nice discovery
3:46, 5:11 - Great melodies...
breathtaking heroics at the piano, composition transcends the norm
wow! really great work! needs more attention!
The last bar has "Grave" with "fff". I may be just deaf, but from the beginning through the end, the emotion is so peaked out with this "Grave" thing for 29 min. Maybe I just don't share this dramatic level of emotion of this tune. I suppose this resonated in the 19th century in Europe.
A masterpiece!
an incredible work, one of my secret favourites in the literature!
...this recording, though, seems a bit flat to me. I'm a pianist myself (not quite at this level), but it just feels like much of the emotion, especially in the more rigorous sections, is held back. I just feel that for Romantic works, control can give way to a bit of spontaneity. The more lyrical sections are lovely, however!
buy the Jean Guillou version, on AUGURE , his home lable. Live recording at Paris Conservatoire on a Fazioli, earthshakingly unbelievable!
Boy Oh Boy, that's a lot of notes. He must have been a big fan of Liszt.
The "You shall become who you are" is from the philosopher Parmenides...Laurel to caesar...
2:47 is that a reference to Liszt's B Minor Sonata?
Man... This is amazing! Where did you find all these hidden gems?
A lot of places on the internet. :D
Amazing piano discovery.
The composition engulfed me.
The composer must have been virtuoso to conceive such a work.
Drama on the keyboard.
Thank You
Thank you, too. :)
Sigh... If only it was possible to restore the comment threads from Hexameron’s upload. Time to contact the support, I guess.
+f1f1s He always had amazing descriptions too with insightful anecdotes. There's no way to obtain a list of all he uploaded either so many of those works will probably be lost for a very long time, until either he himself reuploads them or someone else discovers them.
+f1f1s why did Hexameron disappear ?
+Silviu Ceban Can you imagine the sheer number of copyright holder complaints his channel has gone through over time? What could have become the last straw?
+f1f1s Bet it was Auerbach
+f1f1s
Hexameron's channel shows the following message: "Hexameron has been terminated because we received multiple third-party claims of copyright infringement regarding material the user posted."
Wow, you're an extraordinary source of great discoveries. Well done.
Don't mind it. :)
I have the impression that young Reubke tried to load his sonata with a Lisztian amount of pianism and succeeded mightily. Unfortunately, the work lacks the kind of dramatic structure that always makes Beethoven sonatas so interesting. I will assume that, had he lived past 24, he would have developed into a better, more mature composer. This work has all the emotional impact of fireworks--impressive at the moment and then utterly forgettable on the way home.
6 minutes into it the structure feels too amorphous, there is no memorable melodic content. A few interesting New German School chords and transitions, but mostly empty virtuosity and substandard Listz like motifs. It is unfortunate he passed at 24, it is possible his compositions may have improved if he lived into maturity.
Great way to put it. At the start I was grasped. The introduction is wondeful, and presents a theme that feels like it will be developed into something but never comes. It feels similar actually to chopins 1st sonata. Considering he wrote that at a young age, and comparing it to his later 2nd and 3rd, it’s definitely a shame that Reubke didn’t longer.
150 years before the Beatles there were another Fab Four, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Schumann and Liszt and then there were some contemporaries who tried to put in edgewise much virtuoso ado about nothing. Unfortunately for Fred and Julius the symphony for Isoniazid, Rifampicin, Pyrazinamide, Ethambutol and Nursestra was composed only 100+ years later.
Good luck to whoever plays this
nice
Wow!
Liszt influence, but still his own tune ... nice
Love this guys stuff
You might want to check his organ sonata after some Psalm (don't remember which, sorry).
@@CatkhosruShapurrjiFurabji I have to give that a good listen!
Genius...
2:49 - 2:53 Liszt Sonata?
3:35 looks so much l ike the Liszt sonata
and sounds a little like it too
He was a student of Liszt
7:38
It almost sounds like when ad people get composers to write a melody that's **almost** Bolero but with a few slight changes so they don't have to pay so much for the license.
2:24 Franz Liszt's Après une lecture de Dante... :)
Indeed
Who is playing?
Oh hey there Liszt 2:48
Are you sure Fran’s Liszt didn’t write this sonata? I prefer the Allegro assai because it was less Lisztian. I don’t know why people cannot believe in their own originality.
Very dramatic description of the composer haha!
Liszt läßt grüßen!!!!!!!!!!
I'm not a big fan of Liszt, but I love some of his shorter, less bombastic pieces. This Reubke sonata, like Liszt's, contains beautiful passages woven in between the pathos (or bathos) that Liszt enjoyed using in his music. If Reubke had composed this without the opening Lisztian bravura/bombast, it would be more interesting. Even Horowitz once stated in an interview that pianists should be careful when looking into Liszt's works for something to play because, according to Horowitz, there is much that is of an "inferior" quality.
emmm...
Yet another early death of a fine romantic period composer who would have lived a longer life with antibiotics. Proves either:1) Time travel is impossible, or2) Our civilization won't last long enough to discover how, or3) Music lovers will never get access to a time machine.How many of us now listening wouldn't be without antibiotics?
I came up with a counter to that sort of thought though. If time travel were invented, it would eventually get out, and the only way to fix the problem, would to be to go back and stop the invention. So once a machine was built, the user would have to be on guard for people from the future out to shut them down.
Too easy man
Suffers from too repetitive sequence construction 😢
With all due respect, this must be the most ignorant comment about Julius Reubke's sonata I've ever read.
virtuosistic boring!!!!!!!!!
Masterful performance!