Concert: Schubert and Hummel
![](https://cibul.s3.amazonaws.com/8f379b4a91cc4e208028f0a867a79658.base.image.jpg?__ts=1658942583000&format=webp&width=1920)
The Orchestre Régional de Normandie brings together for this program an original chamber orchestra with a violin, a viola, a cello, a double bass and a piano. On the program of this concert, a monument of the classical repertoire for this formation: the quintet called «La Truite» by Franz Schubert, adapted from one of his lieder, Die Forelle (La Truite), composed on a poem by Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart. Schubert never achieved the great success of his play, since it was published a year after his death. The quintet consists of five movements including a particularly original fourth that made the work so famous, consisting of a theme and five variations after Die Forelle. Contemporary of Schubert, Johann Nepomuk Hummel is considered one of the best pianists of his time. He composed mainly pieces for piano and his music marks a junction between classicism and romanticism. Although he is less known today, he has nonetheless inspired and influenced other brilliant musicians and composers such as Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann and Frédéric Chopin. His quintet in E flat opus 87 is however considered the «masterpiece» in which Hummel displays brilliance, power and passion.