The guarantee (Schubert)
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| Title: | The guarantee |
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Title page of the score, Leipzig 1893 |
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| Shape: | Opera in three acts (fragment) |
| Original language: | German |
| Music: | Franz Schubert |
| Libretto : | unknown student |
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Friedrich Schiller : The guarantee |
| Premiere: | March 7, 1908 (concert version) |
| Place of premiere: | Vienna |
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The guarantee is an opera fragment in three acts by Franz Schubert ( D 435, librettist: unknown), whose composition he began in 1816. It remained unfinished: for an unknown reason, the manuscript breaks off in the third act after only two pieces of music have been worked out. The fragment was performed once in concert in Vienna on March 7, 1908 . As part of the Schiller Year 2005, the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena presented a staged performance for the first time in which the fragment was supplemented with music by Schubert based on Schiller texts.
The opera has little in common with Schubert's song Die Bürgschaft (D 246, duration about 16 minutes), composed in 1815, based on the ballad Die Bürgschaft by Friedrich Schiller .
Music numbers
The fragment contains the following music numbers:
first act
- No. 1. Choir (mixed choir): “Help! Rescue"
- No. 2. Aria (baritone): "Do I have to feel deep in my chest"
- No. 3. Choir (mixed choir): "How thirsty the Aetna"
- No. 4. Choir (mixed choir): "Long live, long live the mutric fool"
- No. 5. Aria (baritone): "I thank you for this grace"
- No. 6. Aria (bass): "Will he return?"
- No. 7. Romance (soprano): "The mother is looking for her dearest child"
- No. 8. Duet (two sopranos): "We bring you the chain"
- No. 9. Finale (three sopranos, baritone, male choir): "You are going to dungeon, you?"
Second act
- No. 10. Entreakt and aria (baritone): “O gods! O thank you "
- No. 11. Aria (soprano): "What night did I experience"
- No. 12. Ensemble (three sopranos, tenor): "Hear the sighs of our mother"
- No. 13. Quartet (male quartet without accompaniment): "Behind bushes, behind the leaves"
- No. 14. Scene and aria (baritone): "O divine calm"
Third act
- No. 15. De-react
- No. 16. Ensemble (baritone and male choir): "The evening is approaching" (unfinished)
literature
- C. Martin: Schubert's "Bürgschaften": Epic and dramatic tone poem in the song (D 245) and in the opera fragment (D 435). In: Schubert yearbook. 2003–2005 (= report on the Schubert Symposium Weimar 2005 ), ed. by M. Kube, Duisburg 2007, pp. 69-84.
- Tobias Lund: Enthusiasm, Contemplation, and Romantic Longing: Reconsidering Schubert's Sectional Songs in the Light of Historical Context . Lund Univ., Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, 2009, ISBN 978-91-976670-2-9 .
Web links
- The Guarantee (D 246) : Notes and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project (Lied)
- The guarantee (D 435) : sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project (opera fragment)
- Heinrich Kreissle von Hellborn. Schubert. 4. Chapter on Schubert's opera fragment "Die Bürgschaft".
- Pictures of the staging of the opera at the University of Jena
- The guarantee (D 246) as MP3 under free license
- Schubert's opera fragment “Die Bürgschaft” D.435
Individual evidence
- ^ Liane Speidel: Franz Schubert - an opera composer? Using the example of the “Fierrabras” (= Viennese writings on stylistics and performance practice 6). Böhlau, Cologne / Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-205-79189-8 , p. 254.
- ^ Title page of the score edition. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1893, Plate F. S.192.