Schubert's Piano Trio No. 2 (music from the final scene of the film “Barry Lyndon”; spoilers abound)

The video is a complete spoiler of the movie and contains all the key moments of the film, so, if you have not seen Stanley Kubrick's film “Barry Lyndon” but want to see it, I advise that you watch the film first before watching this video.

In his 3rd Symphony, the 18 year-old Austrian composer Franz Schubert (1797-1828) created a musical masterpiece with symphonic movements based on various forms of European dance.13 years later, Schubert was dead, the cause of which is rumored to have been syphilis.

Today on the World Express, we listen to the second movement from Schubert's Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat major for piano, violin, and violoncello, Op. 100 D. 929; this was one of Schubert's last compositions before he died in November of 1828, and was composed about a year before the composer's death.

This music was used in the final scene of Stanley Kubrick's film "Barry Lyndon" (1975) which was based on the English novelist William Makepeace Thackeray's (1811-1863) picaresque novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon. The Luck of Barry Lyndon was first published in serial form in the London literary journal Fraser's Magazine during 1844.

I did not create this tribute video to the film.

"Barry Lyndon" (1975) Soundtrack adaptation of the second movement, the Andante con moto (i.e., Slowly [literally, at a walking pace], but with motion) of Franz Schubert's Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat major, Op. 100 D. 929, with Ralph Holmes/violin, Moray Welsh/cello, Anthony Goldstone/piano.

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