Brown Trout (Salmo trutta)
Illustration: Knepp Timothy (Wikimedia Commons)
For your listening pleassure, Franz Schubert's Trout Quintet (a.k.a. Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667). This was the second of Schubert's works to be named after that venerable European fish, the Brown Trout (Salmo trutta). The first was the song Die Forelle (D. 550), German for The Trout, an allegorical piece warning young women away from the depredations of male suitors, framed as a struggle between angler and fish. The quintet's fourth movement is a series of variations on Die Forelle, thus the transference of the name between the two works. The kind of information that can nail a daily double on Jeopardy...
