Returning Cycles: Contexts for the Interpretation of Schubert's Impromptus and Last Sonatas Volume 11

by Charles Fisk

This compelling investigation of the later music of Franz Schubert explores the rich terrain of Schubert's impromptus and last piano sonatas. Drawing on the relationships between these pieces and Schubert's Winterreise song cycle, his earlier "Der Wanderer," the closely related "Unfinished" Symphony, and his story of exile and homecoming, "My Dream," Charles Fisk explains how Schubert's view of his own life may well have shaped his music in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520225643
• ISBN13: 9780520225640
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 319 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"