Identifier: modernmusicmusic02elso (find matches)
Title: Modern music and musicians : (Encyclopedic)
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Elson, Louis Charles, 1848-1920
Subjects: Piano Musicians Composers
Publisher: New York : The University Society Inc.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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lly for the last one in B flat with the exquisite andante in C sharpminor. Taking them all in all, I do not know but that I prefer hissonatas even to his short pieces for the piano. Yet they are seldomplayed at concerts! Just as the Impromptus and Musical Moments were the sourceof the large crop of romantic short pieces, so Schuberts charming waltzeswere the predecessors of the Lanner and Strauss dances on the one hand,and of Chopins waltzes on the other. There is an astounding number ofthese Schubert dance pieces. Liszt has given some of them a brilliant set-ting for the concert-hall, but they are charming as originally written.In this humble sphere, as in the more exalted ones we have discussed,historians have hardly given Schubert full credit for his originality andinfluence. In Schuberts pianoforte music, perhaps even more than in his othercompositions, we find a Slavic trait which he was the first to introduceprominently into art-music, namely, the quaint alternation of major and
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BY PERMISSION OF CARL SIMON, MOilC PUBLISHER, BERLIN. SCHUBERTS GRAVE, VIENNA. minor within the same period. Nor is this the only Slavic or Hungariantrait to be found in his music. During his residence in Hungary, heassimilated national melodies and rhythmic peculiarities, and embod-ied them in his art, thus becoming the forerunner of Liszt, Brahms, andothers who have made Hungarian melodies an integral part of Europeanconcert music. From the rich stores of Slavic folk-music, in its Hungar-ian, Russian, Bohemian, and Polish varieties, the composers of to-dayhave derived, and will continue to derive, much that is charming andnovel in their music. Nor is there anything objectionable in this, for ifthe poet and the painter base much of their best art on national legends,songs, and traditions, why should not the musician ? And to Schu-bert will belong the honor of having been one of the first to show theway. 130 FRANZ SCHUBERT 131 Perhaps the luckiest accident in Schuberts life was his ac

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