Franz Schubert and His World (ebook)

Argumento de Franz Schubert and His World (ebook)

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.

Christopher H. Gibbs is the James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Music at Bard College and coartistic director of the Bard Music Festival. He is the author of The Life of Schubert. Morten Solvik is Center Director of IES Abroad Vienna, where he also teaches music history. His work includes articles on Schubert, Bruckner, and Mahler.0Preface and Acknowledgments vii
Permissions and Credits xvii
Schubert: The Nonsense Society Revisited 1
RITA STEBLIN
Excerpts from Beyträge zur Bildung für Jünglinge, 1817-1818 39
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 67
Romanticism of the Schubert-Schober Circle, 1820-1825
JOHN M. GINGERICH
Schubert?s Kosegarten Settings of 1815: A Forgotten Liederspiel 115
MORTEN SOLVIK
The Queen of Golconda, the Ashman, and the Shepherd on a Rock: Schubert and the Vienna Volkstheater 157
LISA FEURZEIG
Liszt on Schubert?s Alfonso und Estrella 183
INTRODUCED AND TRANSLATED BY ALLAN KEILER
Schubert?s Freedom of Song, If Not Speech 201
KRISTINA MUXFELDT
Schubert?s Tombeau de Beethoven: Decrypting the Piano Trio in E-flat Major, Op. 100 241
CHRISTOPHER H. GIBBS
Schubert in History 299
LEON BOTSTEIN
Index 349
Notes on Contributors 363