Franz Schubert in his time
By: Ernst Hilmar ; translated by Reinhard G. Pauly.
Contributors: Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828.
Publisher: Amadeus Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Portland, Or
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 157
Subjects: Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828; Composers -- Austria -- Biography
Description: Franz Schubert, the shortest-lived of the great composers, the very embodiment of the pure Romantic lyric impulse, is nonetheless among the most enigmatic of composers. His brief life was relatively uneventful, and the popular sentimental image of Schubert as a happy-go-lucky Bohemian has shown remarkable staying power, even though it has little basis in fact.
In this book, Dr. Ernest Hilmar attempts, in a series of vignettes, to give the reader a sense of the Vienna backdrop against which Schubert's music was first played in salons and then in concert. Literature, the arts, and politics are all part of the cultural context of the most purely Viennese composer of the early 19th century.

Franz Schubert: In His Time is written for the music lover rather than the Schubert scholar, and aims to present what is known about his life in a fresh perspective as a complement to what his music reveals of the man.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 136-151.
Translation of: Franz Schubert in seiner Zeit.
Includes index.