Schubert's Poets and the Making of Lieder

ISBN-13: 9780521778626 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 404 str.

Susan Youens

Opis

Schubert's choice of poets has traditionally come under fire for the preponderance of mediocre talent, and yet many of these writers were highly esteemed in their day. The author has chosen four such poets--Gabriele von Baumberg, Theodor Korner, Johann Mayrhofer, and Ernst Schulze--in order to reexamine their lives, works, and Schubert's music to their verse. All four poets were vivid inhabitants of a vivid era, and their tribulations afford us added insight into the upheavals, the manners and mores, of their day.

Recenzje

'It is a measure of success of this important new study that the songs which are the object of such close scrutiny will never sound quite the same to the reader-listener. We shall hear them, both words and music, with greater understanding, growing admiration and continuing affection.' Paul Reid, The Schubertian

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. 'The Sappho of Vienna': Gabriele von Baumberg and the disasters of war; 2. The lyre and the sword: Theodor Körner and the lied; 3. Chromatic melancholy: John Mayrhofer and Schubert; 4. En route to Winterreise: Ernst Schulze and the sisterly muses, or a study in Romantic psychopathy.