Schubert's Vienna
By: edited by Raymond Erickson.
Contributors: Erickson, Raymond.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
Subjects: Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828; Music -- Austria -- Vienna -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Arts, Austrian -- Austria -- Vienna; Vienna (Austria) -- Politics and government; Vienna (Austria) -- Social life and customs
Description: Eminent authorities examine Vienna's history and politics, class structure, and social conventions. They describe private and public entertainments, including music and dance, as well as classical and popular Viennese theater, both of which achieved special greatness in the early nineteenth century. They investigate the historical layers of architecture and sculpture that preserved Vienna's past or reflected the imperatives of Schubert's time.

They analyze genres of painting that exemplified or went beyond the ideals of Biedermeier society. And they discuss literary currents reflected in (or absent from) the poetry that fired Schubert's musical imagination.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"An Aston Magna Academy book"--p. [i].