Franz Schubert and His World / Christopher H. Gibbs, Morten Solvik.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gibbs, Christopher H., editor.

Solvik, Morten, editor.

Series:

Bard Music Festival series.

The Bard Music Festival ; 37

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828--Friends and associates.

Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828--Criticism and interpretation.

Music--19th century--History and criticism.

Music.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

During his short lifetime, Franz Schubert (1797-1828) contributed to a wide variety of musical genres, from intimate songs and dances to ambitious chamber pieces, symphonies, and operas. The essays and translated documents in Franz Schubert and His World examine his compositions and ties to the Viennese cultural context, revealing surprising and overlooked aspects of his music.Contributors explore Schubert's youthful participation in the Nonsense Society, his circle of friends, and changing views about the composer during his life and in the century after his death. New insights are offered about the connections between Schubert's music and the popular theater of the day, his strategies for circumventing censorship, the musical and narrative relationships linking his song settings of poems by Gotthard Ludwig Kosegarten, and musical tributes he composed to commemorate the death of Beethoven just twenty months before his own. The book also includes translations of excerpts from a literary journal produced by Schubert's classmates and of Franz Liszt's essay on the opera Alfonso und Estrella. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Leon Botstein, Lisa Feurzeig, John Gingerich, Kristina Muxfeldt, and Rita Steblin.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Permissions and Credits

Schubert: The Nonsense Society Revisited / Steblin, Rita

Excerpts from Beyträge zur Bildung für Jünglinge, 1817-1818 / Spaun, Anton Von / Mayrhofer, Johann

"Those of us who found our life in art": The Second-Generation Romanticism of the Schubert-Schober Circle, 1820-1825 / Gingerich, John M.

Schubert's Kosegarten Settings of 1815: A Forgotten Liederspiel / Solvik, Morten

The Queen of Golconda, the Ashman, and the Shepherd on a Rock: Schubert and the Vienna Volkstheater / Feurzeig, Lisa

Liszt on Schubert's Alfonso und Estrella

Schubert's Freedom of Song, if Not Speech / Muxfeldt, Kristina

Schubert's Tombeau de Beethoven: Decrypting the Piano Trio in E-Flat Major, Op. 100 / Gibbs, Christopher H.

Schubert in History / Botstein, Leon

Index

Notes on Contributors

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9780691163802

0691163804

9781785399862

1785399861

9781400865352

1400865352

OCLC:

966765993