Schubert, Müller, and Die Schöne Müllerin

ISBN-13: 9780521563642 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 264 str.

Susan Youens

Opis

The collaboration of Schubert and the poet Wilhelm MUller produced some of the best loved of nineteenth-century lieder--in particular Die schone MUllerin. Professor Youens 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 MUller's mill poems. Above all she examines MUller's permutation of the literary legends as an exploration of erotic obsession, delusion, frenzy, disillusionment and death and the way in which Schubert altered MUller's vision when the poetic cycle became a musical text.

Recenzje

"Youens has produced a stimulating and insightful book fully deserving of a place on every Schubert lover's shelf." Marjorie Hirsch, Notes

Spis treści

List of illustrations; List of examples; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Behind the scenes: the genesis of Wilhelm Müller's cycle; 2. Variations on a poetic theme: hunters, millers and miller maids; 3. Before and after Schubert: at the mill with other composers; 4. 'Lilies that fester': sex and death in Müller's and Schubert's cycles; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.