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      The Unknown Schubert book

      Edited ByBarbara M. Reul, Lorraine Byrne Bodley
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2008
      eBook Published 17 June 2019
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315085012
      Pages 296
      eBook ISBN 9781315085012
      Subjects Arts
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      Reul, B.M., & Bodley, L.B. (Eds.). (2008). The Unknown Schubert (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315085012

      ABSTRACT

      Franz Schubert (1797-1828) is now rightly recognized as one of the greatest and most original composers of the nineteenth century. His keen understanding of poetry and his uncanny ability to translate his profound understanding of human nature into remarkably balanced compositions marks him out from other contemporaries in the field of song. Schubert was one of the first major composers to devote so much time to song and his awareness that this genre was not rated highly in the musical hierarchy did not deter him, throughout a short but resolute and hard-working career, from producing songs that invariably arrest attention and frequently strike a deeply poetic note. Schubert did not emerge as a composer until after his death, but during his short lifetime his genius flowered prolifically and diversely. His reputation was first established among the aristocracy who took the art music of Vienna into their homes, which became places of refuge from the musical mediocrity of popular performance. More than any other composer, Schubert steadily graced Viennese musical life with his songs, piano music and chamber compositions. Throughout his career he experimented constantly with technique and in his final years began experiments with form. The resultant fascinating works were never performed in his lifetime, and only in recent years have the nature of his experiments found scholarly favor. In The Unknown Schubert contributors explore Schubert's radical modernity from a number of perspectives by examining both popular and neglected works. Chapters by renowned scholars describe the historical context of his work, its relation to the dominant artistic discourses of the early nineteenth century, and Schubert's role in the paradigmatic shift to a new perception of song. This valuable book seeks to bring Franz Schubert to life, exploring his early years as a composer of opera, his later years of ill-health when he composed in the shadow of death, and his efforts to reflect i

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      part I|1 pages

      Lieder

      chapter 1|21 pages

      Mayrhofer, Schubert, and the myth of “Vocal Memnon”

      ByHirsch Marjorie

      chapter 2|17 pages

      Beyond the Leiermann: Disorder, reality, and the power of imagination in the final songs of Schubert’s Winterreise

      ByRichard Giarusso

      chapter 3|13 pages

      Musical representation of concepts in Schubert’s settings of the Jena Romantics

      ByLisa Feurzeig

      part II|1 pages

      Sacred Music

      chapter 4|22 pages

      Small is beautiful: Schubert’s smaller sacred works

      ByCrawford Howie

      part III|1 pages

      Opera

      chapter 5|15 pages

      Franz Schubert and Viennese popular comedy

      ByMary Wischusen

      chapter 6|19 pages

      “Ever More Fearful Grows the Confusion”: Genre and the problem of musical narrative in Schubert’s Fierrabras

      ByBrian Locke

      chapter 7|15 pages

      Goethe and Schubert: Claudine von Villa Bella— conflict and reconciliation

      ByLorraine Byrne Bodley

      part IV|1 pages

      Chamber Music

      chapter 8|8 pages

      The Beethoven allusions in “Auf dem Strom”

      ByLarry Hamberlin

      chapter 9|9 pages

      Et in Arcadia ego: The elegiac structure of Schubert’s Quartettsatz in C minor (D.703)

      ByMak Su Yin

      part V|1 pages

      Piano Music

      chapter 10|19 pages

      Hypermeter, phrase length, and temporal disjuncture in Schubert’s Klavierstück No. 3 (D.946)

      ByRyan McClelland

      chapter 11|23 pages

      Distancing the heroic: the Piano Sonata in D major (D.850)

      ByCameron Gardner

      chapter 12|17 pages

      Composing with the “nursery apparatus”: thoughts prompted by two lesser-known Schubert piano works

      ByBrian Newbould

      chapter 13|12 pages

      Revisiting Schubert’s Czech connections

      ByDeLong Kenneth

      part VI|1 pages

      Unfinished Works

      chapter 14|17 pages

      Late style and the paradoxical poetics of the Schubert–Berio Renderings

      ByLorraine Byrne Bodley

      chapter |4 pages

      Afterword

      ByDavid Gramit
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