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Schubert's late Lieder : beyond the song-cycles / Susan Youens.

Author/creator Youens, Susan
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoCambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Descriptionxv, 436 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Of dwarfs, perversion, and patriotism: Schubert and Matthäus von Collin -- Ego, Ehrgeiz, and the lied: Schubert and "the Homer of the Habsburgs," Johann Ladislaus Pyrker -- Of song, sorrow, and censorship: Schubert and Carl Gottfried Ritter von Leitner -- Songs of life, death, and departure: Schubert's Viennese contemporaries.
Abstract This book is a study of selected songs for voice and piano composed in the final six years of his life. Around late 1822, he was diagnosed with syphilis, and many of the songs discussed in this book were written under the seal of impending death. It is possible to locate in these songs a "late song style," full of elegiac references to Schubert's other death-haunted works and marked by distinctive variation techniques. The songs on poems by Schubert's Austrian contemporaries are less well known than they should be, and yet the backdrop to these works is often fascinating. This book introduces the poets Matthaus Collin, Johann Ladislaus Pyrker, Carl Gottfried Ritter von Leitner, Johann Anton Friedrich Reil, Franz von Schlechta, and Johann Gabriel Seidl, and discusses Schubert's songs to their poetry, revealing much about the poets and about Austrian history and culture.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 415-422) and index.
LanguageText in English with extracts in German with parallel English translation.
LCCN 2001037630
ISBN0521793149

Available Items

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Music Music Stacks ML410.S3 Y725 2002 ✔ Available Place Hold