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Trinklied aus dem 16 Jahrhundert ("Edit Nonna"), quartet for male voices, D. 847 (Op. posth. 155)

Date: 1825 07
Composer: Franz Schubert
Period: Romantic (1820-1869)

Review

Schubert's setting of Franz Graffer's Trinklied aus dem 16 Jahrhundert (Drinking Song from the sixteenth century) (D. 847) is a German drinking song with a difference: its language is not German, but Latin. Composed in July 1825 while Schubert was staying in Gmunden at the home of Ferdinand Traweger, presumably where Latin was understood by all, the Trinklied aus dem 16 Jahrhundert is Schubert's only secular setting of the language. But Latin or German, this is still a drinking song; indeed, the verb bibit (to drink) occurs in seven out of the poem's 12 lines. Set for unaccompanied pairs of tenors and basses, this Trinklied seems in some ways almost medieval in a Carmina Burana sort of way: Schubert's setting of the poem's short Latin lines makes the part song sound closer to Lassus than to Schumann with its quick rhythmic lines. And the "false ending" at the song's end is one of the few really funny musical jokes in all of Schubert. ~ James Leonard, Rovi

Albums with Complete Performances of the Work

Title	Date
Franz Schubert: Gesang der Geister über den Wassern
Liedertafel	2004
Schubert: Complete Part Songs for Male Voices Vol. 3	1994
Schubert: Male Choruses	2000
Schubert: The Complete Secular Choral Works	2008
Schubert: Works for Male Choir A Cappella
Singphonic Concert Collection 2
Vive la Compagnie	2005

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