Beethoven's Grosse Fuge, Op. 133, garnered a reputation as "ugly" and "incomprehensible" and baffled musicians and audiences for generations.
Composer Biography
Franz Schubert, composer of the Fantasie, dedicated his work to Caroline Esterhazy, a noblewoman who was his student and with whom he was smitten.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Beethoven's classicism, as heard in Op. 130, strives for balance and hope, while Schubert's romanticism, in his Fantasie, accepts the inevitability of loss and death.
Album & Artwork
The album's original title, Beklemmt, was changed to Cavatine or A Simple Song to avoid association with a Mike Myers' Saturday Night Live skit.
Recording & Production
This album, Cavatine, is dedicated to the victims of the Coronavirus pandemic and is a memorial to the loss of loved ones.
Compositional Technique
In many of his late works, Ludwig van Beethoven, the composer of the Quartet in B-Flat Major, Op. 130, brought back old forms, most notably the fugue.
Composition History
Beethoven's Grosse Fuge, Op. 133, was originally the last movement of his Quartet in B-Flat Major, Op. 130, but was later separated.
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