This is a reaction to Jaybird’s comment about a Zeppelinesque band*:
Why does new ground have to be continually broken? Sometimes it’s nice wearing something comfortable!
Schubert’s 5th Symphony breaks no new ground. It sounds so much like late Mozart that it’s always described that way, and until I learned to recognize it, if it was on the radio I always assumed it was some late Mozart symphony I hadn’t heard recently.
It’s not unmistakably Schubert like the Unfinished or the Great C Major; it just runs over the same old ground, and what have we found? Another symphony that strongly resembles the ones I wish Mozart had written more of. Works for me.
* As opposed to a Zeppoesque band, which would play Maurice Chevalier songs.
That’s a good way to put it… sometimes I think Schubert is did Mozart better than Mozart… but I’m not a Mozart fan.Report
Likewise, I think Mozart’s 39th is his doing Haydn better than Haydn. As, in a different way, is Beethoven’s 1st.Report
There are so many areas where I am still a pisher and a few where I know a bit more. Classical music is one. By coincidence, I’ve been listening to this symphony quite a bit lately and that is sounds like Mozart makes complete sense, but I hadn’t even thought ot it till you mentioned it.Report