Description |
xiii, 340 pages : illustration, music ; 26 cm. |
Series |
Cambridge companions to music
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Cambridge companions to music.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-328) and indexes. |
Contents |
Introduction : the elusive Schubert / Christopher H. Gibbs -- I. Contexts : musical, political, and cultural. Realism transformed : Franz Schubert and Vienna / Leon Botstein ; "Poor Schubert" : images and legends of the composer / Christopher H. Gibbs -- "The Passion for friendship" : music, cultivation, and identity in Schubert's circle / David Gramit ; Schubert's inflections of Classical form / Charles Rosen ; Schubert and his poets : issues and conundrums / Susan Youens -- II. Schubert's music : style and genre. Schubert's songs : the transformation of a genre / Kristina Muxfeldt ; Schubert's social music : the "forgotten genres" / Margaret Notley ; Schubert's piano music : probing the human condition / William Kinderman ; Schubert's chamber music : before and after Beethoven / Martin Chusid ; Schubert's orchestral music : "strivings after the highest in art" / L. Michael Griffel ; Schubert's religious and choral music : toward a statement of faith / Glenn Stanley ; Schubert's operas : "the judgement of history?" / Thomas A. Denny -- III. Reception. German reception : Schubert's "journey to immortality" / Christopher H. Gibbs ; Schubert's reception history in nineteenth-century England / John Reed ; Schubert's reception in France : a chronology (1828-1928) / Xavier Hascher ; Franz Schubert's music in performance : a brief history of people, events, and issues / David Montgomery. |
Subject |
Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828.
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Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828. |
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Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828 -- Criticism and interpretation. |
Added Author |
Gibbs, Christopher Howard.
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ISBN |
0521482291 hardback |
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