The Cambridge companion to Schubert / edited by Christopher H. Gibbs.

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English
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
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1 online resource (xiii, 340 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

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Cambridge companions to music. [More in this series]
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This Companion to Schubert examines the career, music, and reception of one of the most popular yet misunderstood and elusive composers. Sixteen chapters by leading Schubert scholars make up three parts. The first seeks to situate the social, cultural, and musical climate in which Schubert lived and worked, the second surveys the scope of his musical achievement, and the third charts the course of his reception from the perceptions of his contemporaries to the assessments of posterity. Myths and legends about Schubert the man are explored critically and the full range of his musical accomplishment is examined.
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Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 284-328) and indexes.
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English
Contents
  • Introduction: the elusive Schubert / Christopher H. Gibbs
  • I. Contexts: musical, political, and cultural: 1. Realism transformed: Franz Schubert and Vienna / Leon Botstein ; 2. "Poor Schubert": images and legends of the composer / Christopher H. Gibbs
  • 3. "The Passion for friendship": music, cultivation, and identity in Schubert's circle / David Gramit ; 4. Schubert's inflections of Classical form / Charles Rosen ; 5. Schubert and his poets: issues and conundrums / Susan Youens
  • II. Schubert's music: style and genre: 6. Schubert's songs: the transformation of a genre / Kristina Muxfeldt ; 7. Schubert's social music: the "forgotten genres" / Margaret Notley ; 8. Schubert's piano music: probing the human condition / William Kinderman ; 9. Schubert's chamber music: before and after Beethoven / Martin Chusid ; 10. Schubert's orchestral music: "strivings after the highest in art" / L. Michael Griffel ; 11. Schubert's religious and choral music: toward a statement of faith / Glenn Stanley ; 12. Schubert's operas: "the judgement of history?" / Thomas A. Denny
  • III. Reception: 13. German reception: Schubert's "journey to immortality" / Christopher H. Gibbs ; 14. Schubert's reception history in nineteenth-century England / John Reed ; 15. Schubert's reception in France: a chronology (1828-1928) / Xavier Hascher ; 16. Franz Schubert's music in performance: a brief history of people, events, and issues / David Montgomery.
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Cambridge companions online.
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  • 1-139-81547-4
  • 1-139-00217-1
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