Schubert a musical wayfarer
"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, muc...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven
Yale University Press
[2023]
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.3716009 |
| Summary: | "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."-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource color illustrations, music |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 653-370) and indexes |
| ISBN: | 9780300268409 0300268408 0300204086 9780300204087 |