Schubert's Poets and the Making of Lieder [Paperback]

A re-examination of the life and work of four poets and Schubert's settings of their verse.Schubert's choice of poets has traditionally come under fire for the preponderance of mediocre talent, and yet many of these writers were highly esteemed in their day. The author has chosen four such poets - Gabriele von Baumberg, Theodor Korner, Johann Mayrhofer, and Ernst Schulze - in order to re-examine their lives, works, and Schubert's music to their verse. All four poets were vivid inhabitants of a vivid era, and their tribulations afford us added insight into the upheavals, the manners and mores, of their day.Schubert's choice of poets has traditionally come under fire for the preponderance of mediocre talent, and yet many of these writers were highly esteemed in their day. The author has chosen four such poets - Gabriele von Baumberg, Theodor Korner, Johann Mayrhofer, and Ernst Schulze - in order to re-examine their lives, works, and Schubert's music to their verse. All four poets were vivid inhabitants of a vivid era, and their tribulations afford us added insight into the upheavals, the manners and mores, of their day.Schubert's choice of poets has traditionally come under fire for the preponderance of mediocre talent, and yet many of these writers were highly esteemed in their day. The author has chosen four such poets--Gabriele von Baumberg, Theodor Körner, Johann Mayrhofer, and Ernst Schulze--in order to reexamine their lives, works, and Schubert's music to their verse. All four poets were vivid inhabitants of a vivid era, and their tribulations afford us added insight into the upheavals, the manners and mores, of their day.Introduction; 1. 'The Sappho of Vienna': Gabriele von Baumberg and the disasters of war; 2. The lyre and the sword: Theodor K?rner and the lied; 3. Chromatic melancholy: John Mayrhofer and Schubert; 4. En route to Winterreise: Ernst Schulze and the sisterly muses, or a study in Romantic psychopathy. Simply stated, the book is interestil#n