![]() Welch musikalisch-schöpferischer Reichtum in Schubert lag, erkannte man bald im Hause Esterházy er wurde ein Liebling der Familie, blieb auch über Winter in Wien Musikmeister im Hause und begleitete die Familie auch spätere Sommer hindurch auf das genannte Landgut in Ungarn. In August he writes to Schwind, again mentioning the Sonata D 812 and Variations D 813: By around July 1824 symptoms of Schubert's venereal disease were as good as gone, which they would remain for the next two years. This indicates that these pieces for piano four-hands were performed there and then, shortly after their completion by the composer, maybe even by the young countesses, his pupils. A grand Sonata and Variations on a theme of my own invention, both for four hands, which I already composed, can serve to prove this. , I was nonetheless more able to find happiness and equanimity in myself than before. One would believe that happiness clings to places where one has known happier moments, while it resides only in ourselves, and so, when I encountered an unpleasant disappointment. Surely, these are no longer the happy days, in which everything bathes in youthful glory, but the fatal recognition of a miserable reality, which, through my fantasy (thank God) I endeavour to embellish as much as possible. So that these lines wouldn't make you think I would be unwell or unhappy, I haste to assure you of the contrary. In the second half of July the composer wrote to his brother Ferdinand, starting with an analysis of the sorrow brought by his absence, followed by: Four Ländler, D 814, composed in July.Eight Variations on an original theme, D 813, composed between late May and the middle of July.Sonata in C major, D 812: autograph parts dated June 1824. ![]() The Deutsch catalogue lists three compositions, all for piano four-hands, which Schubert composed during his first couple of months in Zseliz: Around this time his friend Moritz von Schwind wrote to Kupelwieser informing him that the composer had left for Hungary, planning to write a symphony. Feeling in better health, he was in Zseliz by the end of the month, again as music teacher of the Esterházy family for the summer season. On 7 May Schubert attended the concert in which Beethoven presented his 9th Symphony. early May I go to Hungary with Esterhazy. In the letter he also mentions his latest chamber music compositions (the String Quartets D 804 and 810, and the Octet D 803), and his plan to write another Quartet, after which he adds: In a letter of 31 March to his friend Leopold Kupelwieser, he describes the failure of his latest opera projects and voices his despair over his health situation. A few months later symptoms of his illness regained momentum. His Op. 30, the B-flat major piano duet Sonata of 1818, was published in December. ![]() Later that year the composer contracted syphilis, suffering from the condition for the largest part of 1823 and partially recovering towards the end of the year. In May 1822, Schubert dedicated his Op. 8, a collection of four songs ( D 702, 516, 586 and 539 ), to Count János Károly. Schubert was in Zseliz from 7 July to 19 November, around which time he wrote his Sonata in B-flat major for piano four-hands, D 617. In 1818 Count János Károly Esterházy de Galántha (German: Johann Karl Esterházy von Galánta) hired Schubert as music teacher for his daughters, Mária Terezia and Karoline, when the family was staying at their summer residence in Zseliz, at that time in rural Hungary. ![]() See also: List of compositions by Franz Schubert (1824) and Sonatas, duos and fantasies by Franz Schubert § Sonatas and Fantasies for piano four-hands Schubert in 1821, drawing by Joseph Kupelwieser.
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