Schubert's poets and the making of lieder

Lieder began with words, with the composer's discovery of a poet and a poetic work, but the scholarly study of lieder has tended to bypass those origins. 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. In this book, the author has chosen four such poets - Gabriele von Baumberg ("the Sappho of Vienna"), the young war-martyr Theodor Korner, Schubert's friend Johann Mayrhofer, and Ernst Schulze - in order to re-examine their live, works, and Schubert's music to their verse. Schubert gravitated to different poetic repertoires at different times in his life and for different musical purposes, such as the anticipation of Winterreise one hears in the Schulze songs or the radical tonal experimentation of the Mayrhofer songs. All four poets were vivid inhabitants of a vivid era, and their tribulations - from Gabriele von Baumberg's embroilment in Napoleonic politics to Schulze's mental illness - afford us added insight into the upheavals, the manners and mores, of their day.

המשפט הראשון: IN THE FIRST VOLUME of her memoirs, Denkwurdigkeiten aus meinem Leben (Reminiscences of My Life), and the second volume of her Zerstreute Blatter (Scattered Album Leaves), the Viennese writer Carolina Pichler briefly invokes a friend of her youth, "one of the most interesting women in Vienna": the poet Gabriele von Baumberg (1766-1839).

שנה

1996

שפה

English

הוצאה

Cambridge University Press

מהדורות

1

עמודים

400

ISBN

9780521778626

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata