For our final visit to the fFestival the menu consisted of Robert Schumann’s piano quintet and six of Franz Schubert’s Lieder from Schwanengesang, written in 1828.
Schwanengesang or Swan song – who doesn’t know the meaning of the term? Franz Schubert (1810 – 1856) was said to have written six hundred songs. He was dying as he penned the last notes of this piece. As many of his friends, weakened by syphilis, he died young of typhoid.