The Unknown Schubert [Paperback]

Contents: Foreword, Susan Youens; Part I Lieder: Mayrhofer, Schubert, and the myth of 'vocal memnon', Marjorie Hirsch; Beyond the Leiermann: disorder, reality, and the power of imagination in the final songs of Schuberts Winterreise, Richard Giarusso; Musical representation of concepts in Schubert's settings of the Jena Romantics, Lisa Feurzeig. Part II Sacred Music: Small is beautiful: Schubert's smaller sacred works, Crawford Howie. Part III Opera: Franz Schubert and Viennese popular comedy, Mary Wischusen; 'Ever more fearful grows the confusion': genre and the problem of musical narrative in Schubert's Fierrabras, Brian Locke; Goethe and Schubert: Claudine von Villa Bella - conflict and reconciliation, Lorraine Byrne Bodley. Part IV Chamber Music: The Beethoven allusions in Auf dem Strom (D.943), Larry Hamberlin; Et in Arcadia ego: the elegiac structure of Schubert's Quartettsatz in C minor (D.703), Su Yin Mak. Part V: Piano Music: Hypermeter, phrase length and temporal disjuncture in Schubert's Klavierst??ck No 3 (D.946), Ryan McClelland; Distancing the heroic: the Piano Sonata in D major (D.850), Cameron Gardner; Composing with the 'nursery apparatus': thoughts prompted by 2 lesser-known Schubert piano works, Brian Newbould; Revisiting Schubert's Czech connections, Kenneth DeLong. Part VI Unfinished Works: Late style and the paradoxical poetics of the Schubert-Berio Renderings, Lorraine Byrne Bodley; Afterword, David Gramit; Appendix; Index.Franz Schubert (1797-1828) is now rightly recognized as one of the greatest and most original composers of the nineteenth century. His keen understanding of poetry and his uncanny ability to translate his profound understanding of human nature into remarkably balanced compositions marks him out from other contemporaries in the field of song. Schubert was one of the first major composers to devote so much time to song and his awareness that this genre was not rated highly in the musical hierarchy did not deter him, throughoulÃ%