What actually happened to the girl? In the second movement of this late string quartet we hear Franz Schubert's own song "Death and the Girl". But towards the end of his short life he only allowed Death to speak here, not the girl. A death that, however, appears comforting: "Be of good courage! I am not wild," says the corresponding passage of the song that Schubert used as the basis for the music. The popular subtitle of the quartet only became established after his death, and if you ignore it for a moment, you see an example of what is probably the most important chamber music genre, which is downright enormous for another reason too: its immense length makes it one of the longest string quartets in music history, which is actually a small symphony.

Thomas Scholz

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Death and the Maiden · Göttinger Symphonieorchester

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Violin in Death and the Maiden by Schubert

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