Schubert

 

Dear friends of piano music,

Schubert and I, we have a lot in common. We are both completely lost without glasses, small in stature (although Schubert was a good bit shorter, just as tall as my grandmother), both of us as a teacher's child did not like going to school and worked as teachers ourselves later.  But that's where the similarities stop. I am already considerably older than Schubert was allowed to become. We are afraid of Corona, even more afraid of being hit by both diseases during a flu epidemic. That is certainly bad and not without risk, but how dreadful it must be to have syphilis and Typhoid fever at the same time is beyond my imagination. How much death was part of life at the time is illustrated by the fact that of Schubert's 15 siblings only 4 reached adulthood. It is unimaginable how women at the risk of their lives gave birth to one child after the other, only to watch them die again. Schubert, on the other hand, is immortal, his 600 songs alone are enough that mankind - I hope - will never forget him.

Best wishes!

Kerstin

 

Franz Schubert: Andante for piano C major (D 29)

https://youtu.be/OrEkxc8Eiag