Schubert: The Music and the Man

Voorkant
University of California Press, 1 apr 1999 - 465 pagina's
Of all the great composers, none, not even Mozart, has been so dogged by myth and misunderstanding as Schubert. Since the 1920s, when the musical Blossom Time hit the stage, the notion of Schubert as a pudgy, love-lorn Bohemian schwammerl (mushroom) scribbling gem lich tunes on the back of menus in idle moments has never been quite eradicated. But in this major new biography (the first comprehensive work on Schubert in over fifty years) Brian Newbould lays to rest the stereotype of the composer plucking melodies out of the air, relying on instinct more than well-honed craft. Instead he paints a vivid and compelling portrait of a man who was compulsively dedicated to his art, a composer so prolific that he produced roughly one thousand works in an eighteen year period.

Gifted with an intuitive know-how, coupled with a Mozartian facility for composition, Schubert combined the relish and wonder of an amateur with the discipline and technical rigor of a professional. He moved quickly and comfortably among genres, and sometimes composed directly into score; but many pieces required painstaking revision before they satisfied his growing self-criticism. Examining afresh the enigmas surrounding Schubert's religious outlook, his loves, his sexuality, his illness and death, Newbould offers above all a celebration of a unique genius, an idiosyncratic composer of an astonishing body of powerful, enduring music.
 

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Introduction
11
The Early Piano Music
90
The Early Chamber Music
110
The Early Church Music
128
The Songwriters Craft
142
The Late Church Music
278
The Late Songs
290
The Late Piano Sonatas
318
Other Late Piano Works
339
The Late Chamber Music
350
The Late Symphonies
373
Aspects of Technique
389
Schubert after 1828
403
Glossary
444
General Index
458
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Brian Newbould, Professor of Music at the University of Hull, is internationally known for his completion of Schubert's unfinished symphonies and other works. The author of Schubert and the Symphony: A New Perspective (1990), he is also active as a composer, conductor, pianist, and lecturer.

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