Schubert's Poets and the Making of Lieder (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521778626)

Schubert's choice of poets has traditionally come under fire for the preponderance of mediocre talent, and yet many of these writers were highly esteemed in their day. The author has chosen four such poets--Gabriele von Baumberg, Theodor K rner, Johann Mayrhofer, and Ernst Schulze--in order to reexamine their lives, works, and Schubert's music to their verse. All four poets were vivid inhabitants of a vivid era, and their tribulations afford us added insight into the upheavals, the manners and mores, of their day.

Author: Susan Youens
ISBN-10: 052177862X
ISBN-13: 9780521778626
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/28/1999
Pages: 404
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.46lbs
Size: 9.72h x 6.91w x 0.82d