Schubert's Late Lieder
Beyond the Song-Cycles
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- Author: Susan Youens, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
- Date Published: November 2006
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521028752
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Schubert's Late Lieder is a study of selected songs for voice and piano composed by Schubert between 1822 and his death on 19 November 1828. Circa late 1822, Schubert was diagnosed with syphilis, and many of the songs discussed in this book were written under the seal of impending death. It is possible to locate in these songs a 'late song style', full of elegiac references to Schubert's other death-haunted works and marked by distinctive variation techniques. The songs on poems by Schubert's Austrian contemporaries are less well known than they should be, and yet the backdrop to these works is often fascinating. In this book, Susan Youens introduces the poets Matthäus von Collin, Johann Ladislaus Pyrker, Carl Gottfried Ritter von Leitner, Johann Anton Friedrich Reil, Franz von Schlechta, and Johann Gabriel Seidl and discusses Schubert's songs to their poetry, revealing much about the poet and about Austrian history and culture.
Read more- A thorough examination of the backdrop, genesis, and cultural context of songs Schubert composed in the last six years of his life
- Introduces six little-known poets who contributed texts for Schubert's songs
- Youens is a recognized leading scholar of early nineteenth-century song whose writing style is lively and accessible - CUP has published 4 other books by Youens (3 of them on Schubert)
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'Youens is undoubtedly well attuned to Schubert's musical language and reading this book … will help scholars and listeners see and hear more in even the most deceptively simple of Schubert's songs … It hardly needs adding that the book is exceptionally well-researched, with extensive and detailed footnotes.' The Schubertian
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- Date Published: November 2006
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521028752
- length: 456 pages
- dimensions: 244 x 178 x 25 mm
- weight: 0.729kg
- contains: 37 b/w illus. 35 music examples
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Preface and acknowledgments
1. Of dwarfs, perversion, and patriotism: Schubert and Matthäus von Collin
2. Ego, Ehrgeiz, and the lied: Schubert and 'the Homer of the Habsburgs,' Johann Ladislaus Pyrker
3. Of song, sorrow, and censorship: Schubert and Carl Gottfried Ritter von Leitner
4. Songs of life, death, and departure: Schubert's Viennese contemporaries
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