Schubert's Late Lieder
Beyond the Song-Cycles
- Author: Youens, Susan
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... — More…
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Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface and acknowledgments
- 1. Of dwarfs, perversion, and patriotism: Schubert and Matthaus 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.