Schubert And His Works For The Stage

Author : Nora Görne
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9783640995677

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Schubert and His Works for the Stage by Nora Görne Pdf

Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2011 in the subject Musicology, grade: A (entspricht 1), Utrecht University (Roosevelt Academy), course: Music in Context, language: English, abstract: Even persons who describe themselves as Schubert lovers may be surprised by the fact that the master of Lieder Franz Schubert (1797-1828) also composed up to 21 works for the stage. Why these pieces are almost forgotten today, can be answered rather easily. From the twelve pieces which he finished, only four have been performed in his life time and were also not very successful. But also today, the pieces can be scarcely found on the playing list of theatres, even in Germany and Austria. Literature often offers the possible explanation that the used libretti were of bad quality and Schubert, the "lyricist" (Partsch 20), was not able of supplying opera dramatics. The simplification that this assumption contains will be explained, especially in regard to the problematic history of German opera itself.

Author : Nora Görne
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9783640994663

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Schubert and his Works for the Stage by Nora Görne Pdf

Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2011 in the subject Musicology - Miscellaneous, grade: A (entspricht 1), Utrecht University (Roosevelt Academy), course: Music in Context, language: English, abstract: Even persons who describe themselves as Schubert lovers may be surprised by the fact that the master of Lieder Franz Schubert (1797-1828) also composed up to 21 works for the stage. Why these pieces are almost forgotten today, can be answered rather easily. From the twelve pieces which he finished, only four have been performed in his life time and were also not very successful. But also today, the pieces can be scarcely found on the playing list of theatres, even in Germany and Austria. Literature often offers the possible explanation that the used libretti were of bad quality and Schubert, the “lyricist” (Partsch 20), was not able of supplying opera dramatics. The simplification that this assumption contains will be explained, especially in regard to the problematic history of German opera itself.

Author : H. P. Clive
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 019816582X

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Schubert and His World by H. P. Clive Pdf

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.

Author : Elizabeth Norman McKay
Publisher : Tutzing : H. Schneider
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Opera
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042321138

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Franz Schubert's Music for the Theatre by Elizabeth Norman McKay Pdf

Author : Eva Badura-Skoda,Peter Branscombe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521088720

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Schubert Studies by Eva Badura-Skoda,Peter Branscombe Pdf

This collection of articles clarifies problems of style and chronology in the music Schubert composed during the last decade of his life.

Author : Henry Frost,David Major
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 1482379996

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Franz Schubert by Henry Frost,David Major Pdf

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

Author : Christopher H. Gibbs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000-04-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521595126

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The Life of Schubert by Christopher H. Gibbs Pdf

This searching biography takes a fresh look at this elusive and misunderstood genius.

Author : Lorraine Byrne Bodley
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780300204087

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Schubert by Lorraine Byrne Bodley Pdf

An insightful biography of the great composer, revealing Schubert's complex and fascinating private life alongside his musical genius Brilliant, short-lived, incredibly prolific--Schubert is one of the most intriguing figures in music history. While his music attracts a wide audience, much of his private life remains shrouded in mystery, and significant portions of his work have been overlooked. In this major new biography, Lorraine Byrne Bodley takes a detailed look into Schubert's life, from his early years at the Stadtkonvikt to the harrowing battle with syphilis that led to his death at the age of thirty-one. Drawing on extensive archival research in Vienna and the Czech Republic, and reconsidering the meaning of some of his best-known works, Bodley provides a fuller account than ever before of Schubert's extraordinary achievement and incredible courage. This is a compelling new portrait of one of the most beloved composers of the nineteenth century.

Author : Suzannah Clark
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781139500593

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Analyzing Schubert by Suzannah Clark Pdf

When Schubert's contemporary reviewers first heard his modulations, they famously claimed that they were excessive, odd and unplanned. This book argues that these claims have haunted the analysis of Schubert's harmony ever since, outlining why Schubert's music occupies a curiously marginal position in the history of music theory. Analyzing Schubert traces how critics, analysts and historians from the early nineteenth century to the present day have preserved cherished narratives of wandering, alienation, memory and trance by emphasizing the mystical rather than the logical quality of the composer's harmony. This study proposes a new method for analyzing the harmony of Schubert's works. Rather than pursuing an approach that casts Schubert's famous harmonic moves as digressions from the norms of canonical theoretical paradigms, Suzannah Clark explores how the harmonic fingerprints in Schubert's songs and instrumental sonata forms challenge pedigreed habits of thought about what constitutes a theory of tonal and formal order.

Author : LorraineByrne Bodley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351539821

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The Unknown Schubert by LorraineByrne Bodley Pdf

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, throughout a short but resolute and hard-working career, from producing songs that invariably arrest attention and frequently strike a deeply poetic note. Schubert did not emerge as a composer until after his death, but during his short lifetime his genius flowered prolifically and diversely. His reputation was first established among the aristocracy who took the art music of Vienna into their homes, which became places of refuge from the musical mediocrity of popular performance. More than any other composer, Schubert steadily graced Viennese musical life with his songs, piano music and chamber compositions. Throughout his career he experimented constantly with technique and in his final years began experiments with form. The resultant fascinating works were never performed in his lifetime, and only in recent years have the nature of his experiments found scholarly favor. In The Unknown Schubert contributors explore Schubert's radical modernity from a number of perspectives by examining both popular and neglected works. Chapters by renowned scholars describe the historical context of his work, its relation to the dominant artistic discourses of the early nineteenth century, and Schubert's role in the paradigmatic shift to a new perception of song. This valuable book seeks to bring Franz Schubert to life, exploring his early years as a composer of opera, his later years of ill-health when he composed in the shadow of death, and his efforts to reflect i

Author : LorraineByrne Bodley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351549875

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Schubert's Goethe Settings by LorraineByrne Bodley Pdf

The traditional approach to the study of Goethe and Schubert is to place them in opposition to one another, both in terms of their life experiences and in relation to the nineteenth-century Lied. In her introduction to this book, Lorraine Byrne examines the myths that have evolved around these artists and challenges the view that Goethe was unmusical and conservative in his musical tastes. She also considers Schubert's life in relation to his obvious affinity with the poet and links the composer's Goethe settings with the poet's perception of the Lied. Goethe judged the success of a setting by whether the meaning of the text had been realised in musical form. In his Goethe settings Schubert translates the poet's meaning into musical terms and his rendition attains the classical unity of words and music that Goethe sought. The core of this volume is the series of individual analyses of all of Schubert's solo, dramatic and multi-voice settings of Goethe texts. These explore in detail both the literary and the musical dimensions of each work, and Schubert's reading and interpretation of Goethe's writings. This is the first study in English to treat both artists with equal attention and insight. This, together with its encyclopaedic coverage of this important corpus of works, makes this volume an essential reference tool for all those who study Schubert and Goethe.

Author : Joseph Wechsberg
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Composers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042427489

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Schubert by Joseph Wechsberg Pdf

Author : Robert Challoner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Music
ISBN : MINN:31951001723902P

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History of the Science and Art of Music. Its Origin, Development, and Progress by Robert Challoner Pdf

Author : Lorraine Byrne Bodley,Julian Horton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190606831

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Rethinking Schubert by Lorraine Byrne Bodley,Julian Horton Pdf

In Rethinking Schubert, today's leading Schubertians offer fresh perspectives on the composer's importance and our perennial fascination with him. Subjecting recurring issues in historical, biographical and analytical research to renewed scrutiny, the twenty-two chapters yield new insights into Schubert, his music, his influence and his legacy, and broaden the interpretative context for the music of his final years. With close attention to matters of style, harmonic and formal analysis, and text setting, the essays gathered here explore a significant portion of the composer's extensive output across a range of genres. The most readily explicable aspect of Schubert's appeal is undoubtedly our continuing engagement with the songs. Schubert will always be the first port of call for scholars interested in the relationship between music and the poetic text, and several essays in Rethinking Schubert offer welcome new inquiries into this subject. Yet perhaps the most striking feature of modern scholarship is the new depth of thought that attaches to the instrumental works. This music's highly protracted dissemination has combined with a habitual critical hostility to produce a reception history that is hardly congenial to musical analysis. Empowered by the new momentum behind theories of nineteenth-century harmony and form and recently-published source materials, the sophisticated approaches to the instrumental music in Rethinking Schubert show decisively that it is no longer acceptable to posit Schubert's instrumental forms as flawed lyric alternatives to Beethoven. What this volume provides, then, is not only a fresh portrait of one of the most loved composers of the nineteenth century but also a conspectus of current Schubertian research. Whether perusing unknown repertoire or refreshing canonical works, Rethinking Schubert reveals the extraordinary methodological variety that is now available to research, painting a contemporary portrait of Schubert that is vibrant, plural, trans-national and complex.

Author : Levina Buoncuore Urbino
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038265687

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Biographical Sketches of Eminent Musical Composers by Levina Buoncuore Urbino Pdf