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The Vienna in which Franz Schubert lived for the thirty-one years of his life was a city of music, dance, and coffeehouses--a center of important achievements in the arts. But it was also the capital of an empire that was constantly at war in the composer's youth and that became…
Eminent authorities examine Vienna's history and politics, class structure, and social conventions. They describe private and public entertainments, including music and dance, as well as classical and popular Viennese theater, both of which achieved special greatness in the earl…
Music theorist Eric Wen presents in-depth analyses of seven masterworks from the common-practice period of Western art music. Wen employs the analytic approach developed by Heinrich Schenker, a method that uses musical notation to clarify and illuminate a work's structural hiera…
Tells the story of composer Franz Schubert as a child who defied his father's wishes that he become a schoolteacher and pursued his dream of being a musician instead.
This study of Franz Schubert's settings of poetry by Friedrich Schlegel and Novalis introduces the fascinating world of early German Romanticism in the 1790s. Schubert's encounters with early Romantic poetry some twenty years later reanimated some of the movement's central ideas…
