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Author : Christopher H. Gibbs
Release : 2000-04-20
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 124/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Life of Schubert by : Christopher H. Gibbs
Download or read book The Life of Schubert written by Christopher H. Gibbs. This book was released on 2000-04-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This searching biography takes a fresh look at this elusive and misunderstood genius.
Author : Christopher H. Gibbs
Release : 2015-03-05
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 029/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Life of Schubert by : Christopher H. Gibbs
Download or read book The Life of Schubert written by Christopher H. Gibbs. This book was released on 2015-03-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franz Schubert's tragically short life was lived in one of Europe's most richly musical cities: a Vienna that worshipped Beethoven and where Rossini and Paganini drew crowds. Christopher Gibbs considers how and what Schubert composed, taking a fresh look at this misunderstood composer, particularly the unfolding of his professional career, his relationship to Beethoven, the growth of his reputation and public image and his darker side of drinking, depression and sexual ambiguity. This searching and sympathetic biography questions the customary sentimental clichés and the recent revisionist views concerning this elusive genius.
Author : Christopher H. Gibbs
Release : 2014-08-17
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 804/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Franz Schubert and His World by : Christopher H. Gibbs
Download or read book Franz Schubert and His World written by Christopher H. Gibbs. This book was released on 2014-08-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Elizabeth Norman McKay
Release : 1996
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Franz Schubert by : Elizabeth Norman McKay
Download or read book Franz Schubert written by Elizabeth Norman McKay. This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his short, tumultuous life, Franz Schubert (1797-1828) produced an astonishing amount of music. Symphonies, chamber music, opera, church music, and songs (more than 600 of them) poured forth in profusion. His "Trout" Quintet, his "Unfinished" Symphony, the last three piano sonatas, and above all his song cycles Die Schone Mullerin and Winterreise have come to be universally regarded as belonging to the very greatest works of music? Who was the man who composed this amazing succession of masterpieces, so many of which were either entirely ignored or regarded as failures during his lifetime? In this new biography, Elizabeth McKay paints a vivid portrait of Schubert and his world. She explores his family background, his education and musical upbringing, his friendships, and his brushes and flirtations with the repressive authorities of Church and State. She discusses his experience of the arts, literature, and theater, and his relations with the professional and amateur musical world of his day. She traces the way Schubert's manic-depression became an increasingly significant influence in his life, responsible at least in part for social inadequacies, professional ineptitude, and idiosyncrasies in his music. And she examines Schubert's decline after he contracted syphilis, looking at its effect on his music and emotional life.
Author : Raymond Erickson
Release : 1997-01-01
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 804/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Schubert's Vienna by : Raymond Erickson
Download or read book Schubert's Vienna written by Raymond Erickson. This book was released on 1997-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vienna in which Franz Schubert lived for the thirty-one years of his life was not just a city of music, dance, and coffeehouses - a centre of important achievements in the arts. It was also the capital of an empire that was constantly at war in the composer's youth and that became a police state during his maturity.
