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Schubert
Author: Brian Newbould
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1999-04-01
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9780520219571
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Franz Schubert
Author: C. Whitaker-Wilson
Publisher:
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781404793286
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Franz Schubert
Author: Elizabeth Norman McKay
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In his short, tumultuous life, Franz Schubert (1797-1828) 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 last three 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 this new biography, Elizabeth 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 theater, and his relations with the professional and amateur musical world of his day. She traces the way Schubert's manic-depression became an increasingly significant influence in his life, responsible at least in part for social inadequacies, professional ineptitude, and idiosyncrasies in his music. And she examines Schubert's decline after he contracted syphilis, looking at its effect on his music and emotional life.
Franz Schubert, the Man and His Circle
The Life of Schubert
Author: Christopher H. Gibbs
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-04-20
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780521595124
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This searching biography takes a fresh look at this elusive and misunderstood genius.
Franz Schubert - the Man and His Circle
Author: Newman Flower
Publisher:
Published: 2013-03-01
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780781296199
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Franz Schubert
Author: Leo Black
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781843831358
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"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".
The Schubert Reader
Author: Otto Erich Deutsch
Publisher:
Published: 1947
Total Pages: 1110
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Universally recognized as the foremost authority on Schubertian biography and bibliography, Professor Deutsch has collected in this volume more than 1200 documents relating to Schubert's life and work, with elaborate commentary on each. Over 150 other entries complete the biographical record. This book therefore constitutes a fuller biography of the composer than any that has ever been attempted. It is concerned entirely with actual events and records and undertakes no subjective presentation of Schubert as a personality nor any discussion of his work. Here are Schubert's letters, press notices, extracts from diaries, quotations from programs, official papers and all manner of other pertinent material. The result of this documentary biography is to give a more vivid and unbiased picture of the man and the artist than any other life could do. Here the facts speak for themselves and are for the first time gathered together as completely as they are known to exist, so that this work will henceforth form the basis of any future writings on Schubert either as a man or a composer. This book also contains a full and elaborate commentary giving details about persons and circumstances mentioned and offers a wealth of information on the music and musical life of the early 19th century and on the important composers of the time. --Dust jacket.
