Schubert's Poets and the Making of Lieder

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Introduction;
1. 'The Sappho of Vienna': Gabriele von Baumberg and the disasters of war;
2. The lyre and the sword: Theodor Koerner 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.

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Lieder began with words, with the composer's discovery of a poet and a poetic work, but the scholarly study of lieder has tended to bypass those origins. 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. In her highly acclaimed study, Susan Youens has chosen four such poets - Gabriele von Baumberg, Theodor Körner, Johann Mayrhofer and Ernst Schulze - in order to re-examine 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.

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Youens's book contains useful studies of four poets whom Schubert chose to set. They lend depth to our understanding of the literary culture in which Schubert lived, bringing back to life poets who would otherwise remain faceless

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