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Schubert, Müller, and Die schöne Müllerin / Susan Youens.

Author/creator Youens, Susan
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoCambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Descriptionxviii, 245 pages : illustrations, music ; 26 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Behind the scenes: the genesis of Wilhelm Müller's cycle -- Variations on a poetic theme: hunters, millers, and miller maids -- Before and after Schubert: at the mill with other composers -- "Lilies that fester": sex and death in Müller's and Schubert's cycles.
Abstract The collaboration of Schubert and the poet Wilhelm Müller produced some of the best loved of nineteenth-century lieder--in particular Die schöne Müllerin. The author shows how this archetypal tale of love and rejection is reflected in the poet's own experience. She considers other poets' explorations of the subject, and looks at other musical settings of Müller's mill poems. Above all she examines Müller's permutation of the literary legends as an exploration of erotic obsession, delusion, frenzy, disillusionment and death and the way in which Schubert altered Müller's vision when the poetic cycle became a musical text.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 232-237) and index.
LCCN 96014037
ISBN052156364X

Available Items

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Music Music Stacks ML410.S3 Y72 1997 ✔ Available Place Hold