{"product_id":"franz-schubert-and-his-world-christopher-h-gibbs-9780691163802","title":"Franz Schubert and His World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe life, times, and music of Franz Schubert\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDuring his short lifetime, Franz Schubert (1797-1828) contributed to a wide variety of musical genres, from intimate songs and dances to ambitious chamber pieces, symphonies, and operas. The essays and translated documents in \u003ci\u003eFranz Schubert and His World\u003c\/i\u003e examine his compositions and ties to the Viennese cultural context, revealing surprising and overlooked aspects of his music. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eContributors explore Schubert's youthful participation in the Nonsense Society, his circle of friends, and changing views about the composer during his life and in the century after his death. New insights are offered about the connections between Schubert's music and the popular theater of the day, his strategies for circumventing censorship, the musical and narrative relationships linking his song settings of poems by Gotthard Ludwig Kosegarten, and musical tributes he composed to commemorate the death of Beethoven just twenty months before his own. The book also includes translations of excerpts from a literary journal produced by Schubert's classmates and of Franz Liszt's essay on the opera \u003ci\u003eAlfonso und Estrella\u003c\/i\u003e. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Leon Botstein, Lisa Feurzeig, John Gingerich, Kristina Muxfeldt, and Rita Steblin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher H. Gibbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691163804\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691163802\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/17\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.36h x 6.17w x 0.91d","brand":"Christopher H. Gibbs","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48065040646399,"sku":"9780691163802","price":41.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_45f02f8a-a9d6-4864-b857-72ed26d1e251.jpg?v=1768672746","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/franz-schubert-and-his-world-christopher-h-gibbs-9780691163802","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}