The Life Of Schubert

Author : Christopher H. Gibbs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521595124
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Schubert written by Christopher H. Gibbs and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-04-20 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This searching biography takes a fresh look at this elusive and misunderstood genius.

Author : Elizabeth Norman McKay
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Franz Schubert written by Elizabeth Norman McKay and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franz Schubert (1797-1828) was born in Vienna of immigrant parents. During his short life he produced an astonishing amount of music. Symphonies, chamber music, opera, church music, and songs (more than 600 of them) poured forth in profusion. His 'Trout' Quintet, his 'Unfinished' Symphony, the three last piano sonatas, and above all his song cycles Die Schone Mullerin and Winterreise have come to be universally regarded as belonging to the very greatest works of music. Who was the man who composed this amazing succession of masterpieces, so many of which were either entirely ignored or regarded as failures during his lifetime? In her new biography, Elizabeth Norman McKay paints a vivid portrait of Schubert and his world. She explores his family background, his education and musical upbringing, his friendships, and his brushes and flirtations with the repressive authorities of Church and State. She discusses his experience of the arts, literature and theatre, and his relations with the professional and amateur musical world of his day. Schubert's manic-depressive temperament became of increasing significance in his life, and McKay shows how it was partly responsible for his social inadequacies, professional ineptitude, and idiosyncracies in his music. She examines Schubert's uneven physical decline after he contracted syphilis, traces its effects on his music, his hedonism, and sensuality, and investigates the cause and circumstances of his death at the age of 31.

Author : Christopher H. Gibbs
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691163804
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Franz Schubert and His World written by Christopher H. Gibbs and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-17 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life, times, and music of Franz Schubert 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.

Author : Raymond Erickson
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300070804
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Schubert's Vienna written by Raymond Erickson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vienna in which Franz Schubert lived for the thirty-one years of his life was not just a city of music, dance, and coffeehouses - a centre of important achievements in the arts. It was also the capital of an empire that was constantly at war in the composer's youth and that became a police state during his maturity.

Author : Heinrich von Kreissle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1V/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Franz Schubert written by Heinrich von Kreissle and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph Wechsberg
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Schubert written by Joseph Wechsberg and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1977 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edmondstoune Duncan
Publisher : London : J.M. Dent ; New York : E.P. Dutton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Schubert written by Edmondstoune Duncan and published by London : J.M. Dent ; New York : E.P. Dutton. This book was released on 1905 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Brian Newbould
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520219571
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Schubert written by Brian Newbould and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-04-01 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the great composers, none - not even Mozart - has been so dogged by myth and misunderstanding as Franz Schubert. The notion of Schubert as a pudgy, lovelorn Bohemian schwammerl (mushroom) scribbling tunes on the back of menus in idle moments has never quite been eradicated. In this major new biography, Brian Newbould balances discussion of Schubert's compositions with an exploration of biographical influences that shaped his musical aesthetics. Schubert: The Music and the Man offers an eminently readable description of a musician who was compulsively dedicated to his art - a composer so prolific that he produced over a thousand works in eighteen years. Gifted with an intuitive know-how, coupled with a Mozartian facility for composition, Schubert combined the relish and wonder of an amateur with the discipline and technical rigor of a professional. He moved quickly and comfortably among genres, and sometimes composed directly into score but many pieces required painstaking revision before they satisfied his growing self-criticism. Examining afresh the enigmas surrounding Schubert's religious outlook, his loves, his sexuality, his illness and death, Newbould offers above all a celebration of a unique genius, an idiosyncratic composer of an astonishing body of powerful, enduring music.

Author : David Schroeder
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810869276
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Schubert written by David Schroeder and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-08-04 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Audiences as well as other artists have responded to Franz Schubert's music with passion, both during his time and in the past two centuries. Musicians, painters, writers, and filmmakers have all found a connection with him, integrating his music into their own works in ways that have given their works greater depth. Our Schubert: His Enduring Legacy examines Schubert and the ways audiences and artists_both his contemporaries and their descendents_relate to him, analyzing some of the uses of Schubert's music and providing an intimate portrait of the man. Divided into two parts, part one focuses on Schubert's own time, discussing many aspects of Schubert's life and the effects they had on his compositions, such as the special importance and personal function Schubert's songs held for the composer and their effect on his other works; his association with his contemporaries; and the subtleties of his political activism. Part two considers Schubert's legacy, investigating the composer's ability to arouse passion in other artists through the intervening years to the present. This fascinating study includes several photos as well as a select bibliography and discography that include the works discussed.

Author : Leo Black
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781843831358
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Franz Schubert written by Leo Black and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The old stereotypes of Schubert as Bohemian artist and unselfconscious creator have been replaced over the past half-century with a picture of a difficult man in dificult times. In this accaimed book, Leo Black aims to redress the balance".