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008    961119s1997    caua     b    001 0 eng  
010       96049876
020    0520210654 (cloth)
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049    EREM
050 00 ML410.S3 |bN48 1997
100 1  Newbould, Brian, |d1936- |=^A257483
245 10 Schubert, the music and the man / |cBrian Newbould.
260    Berkeley : |bUniversity of California Press, |c©1997.
300    465 pages : |billustrations ; |c24 cm
336    text |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |2rdamedia
338    volume |2rdacarrier
504    "List of works": pages 424-443.
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-449) and index.
505 00  |g1797-1813 -- |gFirst steps in composition -- |g1813-1815 -- |tThe composer of Lieder -- |g1815-1818 -- |tThe early symphonies -- |tThe early piano music -- |tThe early chamber music -- |tThe early church music -- |tThe song-writer's craft -- |g1818-1822 -- |tMusic for the theatre -- |g1822-1825 -- |tFour hands at one piano -- |g1826-1827 -- |gThe last year: 1828 -- |tThe late church music -- |tThe late songs -- |tThe late piano sonatas -- |gOther late piano works -- |tThe late chamber music -- |tThe late symphonies -- |gAspects of technique -- |gSchubert after 1828.
520    Of all the great composers, none, not even Mozart, has been so dogged by myth and misunderstanding as Schubert. Since the 1920s, when the musical Blossom Time hit the stage, the notion of Schubert as a pudgy, love-lorn Bohemian schwammerl (mushroom) scribbling gemülich tunes on the back of menus in idle moments has never been quite eradicated. But in this major new biography (the first comprehensive work on Schubert in over fifty years) the author lays to rest the stereotype of the composer plucking melodies out of the air, relying on instinct more than well-honed craft. Instead he paints a vivid and compelling portrait of a man who was compulsively dedicated to his art, a composer so prolific that he produced roughly one thousand works in an eighteen year period. Gifted with an intuitive know-how, coupled with a Mozartian facility for composition, Schubert combined the relish and wonder of an amateur with the discipline and technical rigor of a professional. He moved quickly and comfortably among genres, and sometimes composed directly into score; but many pieces required painstaking revision before they satisfied his growing self-criticism. Examining afresh the enigmas surrounding Schubert's religious outlook, his loves, his sexuality, his illness and death, the author offers above all a celebration of a unique genius, an idiosyncratic composer of an astonishing body of powerful, enduring music.
600 10 Schubert, Franz, |d1797-1828 |xCriticism and interpretation. |=^A21518
650  0 Composers |zAustria |y19th century |xCriticism and interpretation. |=^A15202
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