Schubert's Late Lieder: Beyond the Song-Cycles (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521028752)

This study includes selected songs for voice and piano composed by Schubert between 1822 and his death on November 19, 1828. Schubert was diagnosed with syphilis circa late 1822, and many of the songs discussed were written with his knowledge of impending death. It is possible to discover within them a late song style, full of elegiac references to Schubert's other death-haunted works and marked by distinctive variation techniques. Youens also introduces six of the poets whose texts were set to music by Schubert.

Author: Susan Youens
ISBN-10: 0521028752
ISBN-13: 9780521028752
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/02/2006
Pages: 456
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.59lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.92d