Schubert, Die Schone Mullerin

by Susan Youens

Book Overview

This guide to Schubert's much-loved song cycle explores both the music and the poetry from a variety of perspectives. It includes biography and cultural history, literary interpretation, source studies, and musical analysis.

The genesis of Wilhelm Muller's poems, which began as a literary salon game in 1816, and the music, composed soon after Schubert discovered that he had contracted syphilis, is discussed in the first two chapters, which also...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521422795
• ISBN13: 9780521422796
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.5"