Franz Schubert and His World
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Franz Schubert and His World

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Franz Schubert and His World

About this book

The life, times, and music of Franz Schubert

During his short lifetime, Franz Schubert (1797–1828) contributed to a wide variety of musical genres, from intimate songs and dances to ambitious chamber pieces, symphonies, and operas. The essays and translated documents in Franz Schubert and His World examine his compositions and ties to the Viennese cultural context, revealing surprising and overlooked aspects of his music.

Contributors explore Schubert's youthful participation in the Nonsense Society, his circle of friends, and changing views about the composer during his life and in the century after his death. New insights are offered about the connections between Schubert's music and the popular theater of the day, his strategies for circumventing censorship, the musical and narrative relationships linking his song settings of poems by Gotthard Ludwig Kosegarten, and musical tributes he composed to commemorate the death of Beethoven just twenty months before his own. The book also includes translations of excerpts from a literary journal produced by Schubert's classmates and of Franz Liszt's essay on the opera Alfonso und Estrella. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Leon Botstein, Lisa Feurzeig, John Gingerich, Kristina Muxfeldt, and Rita Steblin.

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Index
Page numbers followed by n indicate notes. Page numbers in italics indicate figures and excerpts from musical works.
Index of Franz Schubert’s Compositions
Abendrot, Das (D236), 142, 146, 150, 156n56
Abends unter der Linde (D236), 142, 146, 155n34
Alfonso und Estrella (D732), 179n11, 183–200, 184, 305, 344n14
Alles um Liebe (D241), 137, 139, 140, 140, 141, 142, 144, 144, 145
Allmacht, Die (D852), 95, 259, 285
Am Fenster (D878), 240n44
Am See (D124), 75
An die Musik (D547), 80
An die untergehende Sonne (D457), 155n34, n35
Auf dem Strom (D943), 250, 259, 280–81, 281, 285, 293n62, 296n121
Auf der Riesenkoppe (D611), 20, 33
Aufenthalt (D957/5), 285
Deutsche Messe (D872), 95
Don Gayseros (D93), 146
DoppelgÀnger Der (D957/13), 283
Dörfchen, Das (D598), 30, 33
Eight Variations on an Original Theme (D813), 295n94
Elysium (D584), 33
EntzĂŒckung eines Lauras Abschied (D577), 30, 33
Erlkönig (D328), 280, 291n32
Erscheinung, Die (D229), 142, 142, 146
Fantasy in C Major (“Wanderer” Fantasy) (D760), 162, 163, 179n18, n19, 185, 317
Fantasy in F Minor (D940), 282
Fierabras (D796), 13, 21, 36n30, 187, 251
Finden, Das (D219), 142, 142
Fischers LiebesglĂŒck, Des (D933), 181n37
Fischerweise (D881), 258
Fragment aus dem Aeschylus (D450), 259
Geist der Liebe (D233), 137, 139–40, 141–43
Graf von Gleichen, Der, 89–91, 105, 113n128, 282, 294n79
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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Preface and Acknowledgments
  6. Permissions and Credits
  7. Schubert: The Nonsense Society Revisited
  8. Excerpts from BeytrĂ€ge zur Bildung fĂŒr JĂŒnglinge, 1817–1818
  9. “Those of us who found our life in art”: The Second-Generation Romanticism of the Schubert-Schober Circle, 1820–1825
  10. Schubert’s Kosegarten Settings of 1815: A Forgotten Liederspiel
  11. The Queen of Golconda, the Ashman, and the Shepherd on a Rock: Schubert and the Vienna Volkstheater
  12. Liszt on Schubert’s Alfonso und Estrella
  13. Schubert’s Freedom of Song, If Not Speech
  14. Schubert’s Tombeau de Beethoven: Decrypting the Piano Trio in E-flat Major, Op. 100
  15. Schubert in History
  16. Index
  17. Notes on Contributors