Franz Schubert and his world

Franz Schubert and his world

by Gibbs, Christopher Howard Solvik, Morten

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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 vi…

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  • Full title :Franz Schubert and his world / edited by Christopher H. Gibbs and Morten Solvik.

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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.

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  • Publication Date:©2014

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xvii, 364 pages) : : illustrations, music

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781400865352, 1400865352
  • DOI:10.1515/9781400865352
  • oclc:ocn893439599
  • LC Classification:ML410.S3
  • Dewey Decimal:780.92

Table of Contents

Schubert : the nonsense society revisited / Rita Steblin -- Excerpts from Beyträge zur Bildung für Jünglinge, 1817-1818 / Anton von Spaun and Johann Mayrhofer, translated, introduced, and annotated by David Gramit -- "Those of us who found our life in art" : the second-generation romanticism of the Schubert-Schober circle, 1820-1825 / John M. Gingerich -- Schubert's Kosegarten settings of 1815 : a forgotten Liederspiel / Morten Solvik -- The queen of Golconda, the ashman, and the shepherd on a rock : Schubert and the Vienna Volkstheater / Lisa Feurzeig -- Liszt on Schubert's Alfonso und Estrella / introduced and translated by Allan Keiler -- Schubert's freedom of song, if not speech / Kristina Muxfeldt -- Schubert's Tombeau de Beethoven : decrypting the piano trio in E-flat major, op. 100 / Christopher H. Gibbs -- Schubert in history / Leon Botstein.

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Subjects

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Composers … Criticism, interpretation, etc Friendship Music MUSIC -- Genres & Styles Music -- History and criticism. -- 19th… MUSIC -- Reference Musique -- Histoire et critique. -- 19e… Schubert, Franz

Writers

Gibbs, Christopher Howard Solvik, Morten

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