Schubert's Late Lieder: Beyond the Song-Cycles - Softcover

Youens, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521028752 ISBN 13: 9780521028752

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Schubert's Late Lieder is a study of selected songs for voice and piano composed by Schubert in the final six years of his life, songs in which themes of death, departure and life's summation are at issue. Youens also introduces six of the poets whose texts Schubert set to music.

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'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

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Schubert's Late Lieder is a study of selected songs for voice and piano composed by Schubert between 1822 and his death on 19 November 1828. Circa late 1822, Schubert was diagnosed with syphilis, and many of the songs discussed in this book were written under the seal of impending death. It is possible to locate in these songs a 'late song style', full of elegiac references to Schubert's other death-haunted works and marked by distinctive variation techniques. The songs on poems by Schubert's Austrian contemporaries are less well known than they should be, and yet the backdrop to these works is often fascinating. In this book, Susan Youens introduces the poets Matthäus von Collin, Johann Ladislaus Pyrker, Carl Gottfried Ritter von Leitner, Johann Anton Friedrich Reil, Franz von Schlechta, and Johann Gabriel Seidl and discusses Schubert's songs to their poetry, revealing much about the poet and about Austrian history and culture.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521028752
• ISBN 13: 9780521028752
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 456