Piano Trio No. 2 (Schubert)

Schubert: E flat major piano trio op.100, 2nd movement (autograph)

The Trio in E flat major for piano, violin and violoncello No. 2, D  929 (op.100) , is a chamber music piece by Franz Schubert , one of his last compositions, composed in November 1827.

structure

The trio consists of four movements :

Allegro

Main topic:

Secondary topic:

Andante con moto

As can be seen in the facsimile, this theme sounds an octave lower.

Scherzo: Allegro moderato - Trio

Allegro moderato

This never-ending fourth sentence sums up the previous ones and is all in all a kind of “grand finale”.

Use as film music

The work, especially the second movement, has been used in numerous film scores , e.g. B. in the movies:

• Barry Lyndon by Stanley Kubrick (1975)
• Desire (The Hunger) by Tony Scott (1983)
• Too beautiful for you (Trop belle pour toi) by Bertrand Blier (1989)
• The piano player (La Pianiste) by Michael Haneke , based on the novel by Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek (2001)
• The man of my life (L'Homme de sa vie) by Zabou Breitman (2006)
• After.Life by Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo (2009)
• The Mechanic by Simon West (2011)
• The Congress by Ari Folman (2013), arranged by Max Richter

The music is also widely used for television games and pop music.

Web links

• Piano Trio No. 2, D 929 (Op. 100) : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
• Audio presentation by the Trio di Trieste

Discography

• Rudolf Serkin , Adolf Busch and Hermann Busch , 1935.
• Leonard Rose , Isaac Stern and Eugene Istomin , 1969 (Sony Records).
• George Janzer , Arthur Grumiaux and Eva Czako .
• Maurice Gendron , Yehudi Menuhin and Hephzibah Menuhin .
• Beaux Arts Trio ( Menahem Pressler , Daniel Guilet and Bernard Greenhouse ), 1966.
• Anner Bylsma , Vera Beths and Jos van Immerseel , 1996.
• Trio Wanderer ( Jean-Marc Phillips-Varjabédian , Raphaël Pidoux and Vincent Coq ), 2000.