Schubert's poets and the making of lieder / Susan Youens.
By: Youens, Susan.
Material type: BookPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge U.P., 1999Description: xv, 384 p. : ill ; 25 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 052177862X.Subject(s): Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828 Songs | Songs, German -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Poets, German -- 18th century -- History and criticism | Poets, German -- 19th century -- History and criticismDDC classification: 782.42168092Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending | 782.42168092 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00102470 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Schubert's choice of poets has traditionally come under fire for the preponderance of mediocre talent, and yet many of these writers were highly esteemed in their day. The author has chosen four such poets--Gabriele von Baumberg, Theodor Körner, Johann Mayrhofer, and Ernst Schulze--in order to reexamine their lives, works, and Schubert's music to their verse. All four poets were vivid inhabitants of a vivid era, and their tribulations afford us added insight into the upheavals, the manners and mores, of their day.
Bibliography: p367-378 - Includes index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Introduction
- 1 The Sappho of Vienna
- 2 The lyre and the sword
- 3 Chromatic melancholy
- 4 En route to Winterreise