Lecture by Alexander Ivanov «Poor Romantic»

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Created on Monday, 03 May 2021 08:50

On May 24, as a part of the library project «Music for Everybody», a lecture by Alexander Ivanov entitled «Poor Romantic» about Franz Shubert's life and work took place in the library.

He lived only 31 years, but nevertheless the Austrian composer left much behind. He was born to become another Viennese classic, Schubert brought deep personal feelings to music through suffering and difficulties. This is how romanticism was born. Protest, explosive rhythms, expressive melodies full of genuine feelings, intense harmonies changed the strict classical rules that confessed only reserved manners, symmetry and calm consonances.

Forever young romantic, who suffered a lot in his short life, managed to express all his deep feelings in music, taught listeners to love such «not ideal», «not reserved» (classical) music, full of emotions.

In fact, all Schubert's music is an endless monologue with the finest reflection of a wise person

chamber and even intimate in some sense. It is filled with endless sincerity of feelings. Deep feelings of his earthly loneliness, difficulties, bitterness of defeat filled his thoughts every day. And, finding no other way out, they poured into creativity.

The excerpts from the works of Franz Schubert sounded during the event.