Download or read book The Life and Times of Franz Peter Schubert written by John Bankston and published by Mitchell Lane. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born just a few years after Mozart died, Franz Schubert had a lot in common with the famous composer. Schubert was also a gifted child who astonished adults with his musical ability. As a teen, Schubert was taught by one of Mozart s rivals. And like Mozart, Schubert s life ended prematurely and was filled with struggle. Still, while Mozart was celebrated across Europe, Schubert was almost completely unknown until just a few years before his death. The challenges of Schubert s life inspired his artmusic which is today performed across the world. Schubert s life, his challenges, and his compositions are all reasons he is considered one of the greatest composers.
Download or read book The Life of Schubert written by Christopher H. Gibbs and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-04-20 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This searching biography takes a fresh look at this elusive and misunderstood genius.
Download or read book The Life of Franz Schubert written by Heinrich von Kreissle and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Franz Schubert and His World written by Christopher H. Gibbs and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-17 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life, times, and music of Franz Schubert During his short lifetime, Franz Schubert (1797–1828) contributed to a wide variety of musical genres, from intimate songs and dances to ambitious chamber pieces, symphonies, and operas. The essays and translated documents in Franz Schubert and His World examine his compositions and ties to the Viennese cultural context, revealing surprising and overlooked aspects of his music. Contributors explore Schubert's youthful participation in the Nonsense Society, his circle of friends, and changing views about the composer during his life and in the century after his death. New insights are offered about the connections between Schubert’s music and the popular theater of the day, his strategies for circumventing censorship, the musical and narrative relationships linking his song settings of poems by Gotthard Ludwig Kosegarten, and musical tributes he composed to commemorate the death of Beethoven just twenty months before his own. The book also includes translations of excerpts from a literary journal produced by Schubert’s classmates and of Franz Liszt’s essay on the opera Alfonso und Estrella. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Leon Botstein, Lisa Feurzeig, John Gingerich, Kristina Muxfeldt, and Rita Steblin.
Download or read book Franz Schubert A Biography written by Henry Frost and published by A Distant Mirror. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clarity of outline, conciseness, and formal beauty are excellent things in musical works, but an exquisite fancy, a noble imagination, and a lofty poetic spirit are of infinitely greater account; and no one ever possessed these inestimable gifts in richer profusion than Franz Schubert. This new edition of Henry Frost’s 1892 biography of Franz Schubert has been edited and revised. The original references to pieces by Opus number have been replaced with the more commonly used D numbers. Many illustrations of places and people have been added throughout the text, and a complete catalog of Schubert’s works has been included. “With faith man steps forth into the world. Faith is far ahead of understanding and knowledge; for to understand anything, I must first of all believe something. Faith is the higher basis on which weak understanding rears its first columns of proof; reason is nothing but faith analysed.” – Franz Schubert
Download or read book Franz Schubert written by Elizabeth Norman McKay and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his short, tumultuous life, Franz Schubert (1797-1828) produced an astonishing amount of music. Symphonies, chamber music, opera, church music, and songs (more than 600 of them) poured forth in profusion. His "Trout" Quintet, his "Unfinished" Symphony, the last three piano sonatas, and above all his song cycles Die Schone Mullerin and Winterreise have come to be universally regarded as belonging to the very greatest works of music? Who was the man who composed this amazing succession of masterpieces, so many of which were either entirely ignored or regarded as failures during his lifetime? In this new biography, Elizabeth McKay paints a vivid portrait of Schubert and his world. She explores his family background, his education and musical upbringing, his friendships, and his brushes and flirtations with the repressive authorities of Church and State. She discusses his experience of the arts, literature, and theater, and his relations with the professional and amateur musical world of his day. She traces the way Schubert's manic-depression became an increasingly significant influence in his life, responsible at least in part for social inadequacies, professional ineptitude, and idiosyncrasies in his music. And she examines Schubert's decline after he contracted syphilis, looking at its effect on his music and emotional life.
Download or read book Schubert written by Otto Erich Deutsch and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Professor Deutsch's great study of the life and work of Franz Schubert, begun with his Documentary Biography ten years ago and continued in the Thematic Catalogue, is now completed in this collection of the many records and accounts of the composer by those who knew him, brought together by the editor's unrivalled knowledge and research, and commented upon with his impeccable scholarship. The many letters and records by Schubert's friends, acquaintances and relations; the appreciations and memoirs by the most important witnesses of his life and career; and the linking passages and commentaries on these by Professor Deutsch, illuminate afresh and more brilliantly than hitherto the life and times of this most engaging of the great musical figures. This is not only an indispensable source-book for all students of the subject, but also a work of great interest and entertainment in its field." --Dust jacket.
Download or read book Schubert The Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers written by Peggy Woodford and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schubert died at the age of thirty-one, in obscurity, his genius unrecognised except by a few friends. Today he is acknowledged as one of the greatest composers of all times. His nine symphonies include what is probably the most famous of all symphonies - The Unfinished- and his chamber music, the best loved of all quintets - The Trout. Perhaps his most impressive accomplishment was the composition of over six hundred exquisite songs, including the Schöne Mullerin and Winterreise song cycles, which never cease to delight audiences. In this new biography, the author traces the life and times of Schubert, the development of his music and the political and social climate of Vienne in the years following the Congress of 1814. Documentation of the period, Schubert's own letters and the recollections of his friends help bring Schubert's time alive. The text is completed with a number of facsimile reproductions of Schubert's manuscripts and published editions.
Download or read book Franz Schubert Man and Composer written by Cecil Whitaker-Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Schubert written by Peggy Woodford and published by Tfh Publications Incorporated. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the Austrian composer, Franz Schubert and the people and events which affected both his personal life and his music.
Download or read book Franz Schubert a musical biography from the Germ abridged by E Wilberforce written by Heinrich Kreissle von Hellborn and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Schubert written by Joseph Wechsberg and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To this day, Schubert remains something of an enigma, despite the wealth of literature about him. Did he write the 'philistine sonatas' attributed to him by Richard Wagner, or did he have the 'divine spark' which Beethoven recognized in him? Was he the 'cosy Biedermeier character' of Vienna, known to his friends as 'little mushroom', or was he something else--a genius unrecognized? Inspired by his own love of performing Schubert's chamber and instrumental works, the author goes behind the commercially exploited myth of the 'jolly drinking companion', to portray another Schubert, the man who stood between two worlds--the Classican and the Romantic--and who realised works of extraordinary meoldic beauty. He traces Schubert's development as man and musician against an historical and social framework; from his birth in 1797 in war-shadowed Vienna, through his prolific career as composter, to his death of typhus fever at the early age of thirty-one. The portrait emerges is that of the man revealed through his music: 'a complex, sympathetic, always very real human being, a difficult man and an honest artist'.
Download or read book Schubert and His World written by H. P. Clive and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book of its kind on Schubert. It appears at a time when scholarly and general interest in his life and compositions is greater than ever, and its publication coincides with the celebration of the bicentenary of Schubert's birth in 1797. The book opens with a chronicle of Schubert's life, which is followed by more than 300 biographical entries offering information not only on his friends and acquaintances, and on persons with whom he was associated through his music (poets, librettists, publishers, patrons, musicians), but also on a number of later `Schubertians' who greatly advanced public appreciation and scholarly examination of his music or made a particularly significant contribution to our knowledge of his life. The book thus adds a fuller context and perspective to the reader's view of Schubert's activities, and indeed of the music itself.
Download or read book The Life of Franz Schubert written by Heinrich Kreissle von Hellborn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1869 English translation of the first full-length biography of the celebrated composer, incorporating reminiscences of his contemporaries.
Download or read book Schubert written by Joseph Bennett and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-20 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a long lost biography of the composer Franz Peter Schubert. It dates from 1886, and has been updated and enhanced by over 400 scholarly notes. It was written by Joseph Bennett an English music critic and librettist. Despite being one of the earliest Schubert biographies in English, it is not well known, presumably because it was not published as a book, but as a series of 9 articles in the magazine The Musical Times, between January and September 1886. It is sufficiently unknown that it does not appear in the big Schubert bibliography from Willi Kahl in 1938. Richard Morris of The Schubert Institute (UK) has edited the biography and added over 400 notes to update, correct and clarify Bennett's work, including citing sources and providing Deutsch catalogue numbers. The notes often inform the reader about things that Bennett simply could not have known at the time. The style and content of the biography reflects the time when it was written, and it is of interest for the light that it shines on Schubert's reception history, at a time when the prevailing views of Schubert, especially with respect to his 'heavenly lengths', 'lack of proper training' and 'clairvoyance' were quite different to today. However, by modern standards, this is not a *good* biography, and it is full of errors, although the editorial notes do help to correct those. A bonus appendix provides the quite extraordinary article about Schubert that Bennett wrote for the birth centenary year of 1897. This is very much 'of its age' and it is unlikely that anyone would approach such a task in this manner today - and if they did it would almost certainly not get printed. Bennett wrote biographies of many composers in the The Musical Times between September 1877 (the start of Haydn) and December 1891 (the end of Wagner), five of which (Berlioz, Chopin, Rossini, Cherubini and Meyerbeer) were published as stand-alone books. At the time, Bennett was chief music critic for The Daily Telegraph, but was allowed to contribute to music magazines. As well as The Musical Times and Musical World, these included journals like Concordia and Lute, which he edited. Most Print on Demand publishers of old out-of-copyright books print what are essentially just scans of all the pages, with no added value. The text of this book has been prepared by using OCR on the originals and then carefully proof reading, editing and formatting. This takes much longer, but the end product is much cleaner than that which results from essentially just scanning and printing. It also allows an editor to reformat for readability and add content, adding value to the resultant book.
Download or read book The Schubert Reader written by Otto Erich Deutsch and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Universally recognized as the foremost authority on Schubertian biography and bibliography, Professor Deutsch has collected in this volume more than 1200 documents relating to Schubert's life and work, with elaborate commentary on each. Over 150 other entries complete the biographical record. This book therefore constitutes a fuller biography of the composer than any that has ever been attempted. It is concerned entirely with actual events and records and undertakes no subjective presentation of Schubert as a personality nor any discussion of his work. Here are Schubert's letters, press notices, extracts from diaries, quotations from programs, official papers and all manner of other pertinent material. The result of this documentary biography is to give a more vivid and unbiased picture of the man and the artist than any other life could do. Here the facts speak for themselves and are for the first time gathered together as completely as they are known to exist, so that this work will henceforth form the basis of any future writings on Schubert either as a man or a composer. This book also contains a full and elaborate commentary giving details about persons and circumstances mentioned and offers a wealth of information on the music and musical life of the early 19th century and on the important composers of the time. --Dust jacket.
Download or read book Schubert written by Otto Erich Deutsch and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1977-07-21 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, first published in English in 1958 by A. & C. Black, brings together a mass of contemporary accounts of memoirs of Schubert by a wide variety of friends and acquaintances. It is here reprinted, with a new Foreword by Walther Durr, Director of the International Schubert Society and Chief Editor of the New Schubert Edition. The volume includes obituary notices, biographical material of various kinds, personal records and memoirs, and correspondence on Schubert's posthumous works. A glossary, an index of works, and several illustrations are included."
