L. Michael Griffel

Well, it's a pleasure to be here, and what you did, it was a harmless bit of ignorance, but who can blame you?

How many people would know the things you know about science?

Well, Schubert was a prodigious writer of art songs, known as Lieder in German, writing about 600 or so of them.

And he did this even when he was a very, very young man.

Some of his most famous songs come from the time when he's 15, 16, 17 years old.

And he set this song by a poet called Schubart.

That's just a coincidence.

And in Schubart's poem, the story is about a fish, the harmless little animal who is jumping up and down and enjoying the brook water and just having fun.

And here comes this man who wants to catch the fish and can't very easily.

So the fisherman muddies up the water and then the poor little fish can't have any more fun and gets caught.

Yeah, this was a big hit back then.

And so it mattered a lot to him.

And in the summer of 1819, with the song having already become very popular,

A businessman commissioned Schubert to write a quintet, and the Fourth Movement uses the song melody as its basis.

And it's interesting to know that among all of Schubert's chamber music, which includes magnificent works, heavenly works, the Trout Quintet was, is, and I think will continue to be the most beloved by the general public.

population.

That's probably why so many were upset.

Although I think Schubert would have been delighted that even a washing machine is happy to tell us that the clothing is ready or the dishes are ready and they tell it by using a Schubert song.

Schubert, by the way, wrote these 600 songs and legions of instrumental pieces all by the age of 31.

He passed away at the age of 31, which is incredible.