Schubert's Late Lieder: Beyond the Song-Cycles

ISBN-13: 9780521793148 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 454 str.

Susan Youens

Opis

This study includes selected songs for voice and piano composed by Schubert between 1822 and his death on November 19, 1828. Schubert was diagnosed with syphilis circa late 1822, and many of the songs discussed were written with his knowledge of impending death. It is possible to discover within them a late song style, full of elegiac references to Schubert's other death-haunted works and marked by distinctive variation techniques. Youens also introduces six of the poets whose texts were set to music by Schubert.

Recenzje

'Youens is undoubtedly well attuned to Schubert's musical language and reading this book … will help scholars and listeners see and hear more in even the most deceptively simple of Schubert's songs … It hardly needs adding that the book is exceptionally well-researched, with extensive and detailed footnotes.' The Schubertian

Spis treści

List of illustrations; Preface and acknowledgments; 1. Of dwarfs, perversion, and patriotism: Schubert and Matthäus von Collin; 2. Ego, Ehrgeiz, and the lied: Schubert and 'the Homer of the Habsburgs,' Johann Ladislaus Pyrker; 3. Of song, sorrow, and censorship: Schubert and Carl Gottfried Ritter von Leitner; 4. Songs of life, death, and departure: Schubert's Viennese contemporaries; Select bibliography; Index.