Die Forelle

They send some matronly woman round the corner who's about 80, possibly a retired music teacher, possibly still considers herself a music teacher.

So I'll teach you how to play Schubert's The Trout on a piano.

Let's not go into Schubert's The Trout again.

I'm always going on about Schubert's The Trout.

There's a reason for that though.

It's the only composition I remember from music theory class in school.

But of course, the music teacher will say, well, you could tell him all these.

He could teach sea and fishing related terminology.

They send some matronly woman around the corner who's about 80, possibly a retired music teacher, possibly still considers herself a music teacher.

She'll teach you how to play Schubert's The Trout on a piano.

Let's not go into Schubert's The Trout again.

I'm always going on about Schubert's The Trout.

There's a reason for that though.

It's the only composition I remember from music theory class in school.

If he was French, the music teacher could easily have linked up with the French teacher and said, "Right, I'm gonna teach them about Schubert today.

Do you want to do some Schuberty stuff in your French class?" And of course, any sensible professional French teacher will say to that, they'll say, "What do you want me to do? Just teach them the word Schubert and have them repeat it over and over again?" No, I don't think so.

And I enjoyed doing both of them, and I worked on the principal with them both, as Franz Schubert did.

when he did his wonderful suite of songs, although mine weren't songs, they were piano pieces, which included the famous Trout.

Yes.

And he went for a walk and he just made notes.