Our Schubert
Subtitle: his enduring legacy
By: David Schroeder.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780810869264; 9780810869271
Subjects: Schubert, Franz, -- 1797-1828; Schubert, Franz, -- 1797-1828. -- Influence; Composers -- Austria -- Biography; Motion picture music
Genres: Biography
Description: This volume analyzes some of the uses of Austrian composer Franz Schubert's (b. 1797) music, examining the man, his compositions, and the ways audiences and artists, both his contemporaries and their descendants, connect with him. Schubert is admired as one of the leading exponents of the early Romantic era in music and he remains one of the most frequently performed composers.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: His lifetime. Speaking in the first person ; The performer ; The good life ; Covert opera ; Songs, symphonies, and Beethoven's long shadow ; Descent into darkness; title: His legacy. Musicians ; Turn-of-the-century Vienna ; Writers ; Film.