San Antonio College Library

This three-volume set is the definitive work on Franz Schubert's vocal music with piano. A richly illustrated encyclopedia, these substantial volumes contain more than seven hundred song commentaries with parallel text and translations (by Richard Wigmore), detailed annotations on the songs' poetic sources, and biographies of one hundred and twenty poets, as well as general articles on accompaniment, tonality, transcriptions, singers, and more. Written...

The author's reputation in this country as our foremost Schubert scholar is sufficient indication of the value of these fourteen essays. All but two are entirely new and appear here for the first time. A total absorption in Schubert and his works informs all the essays, but they are the result of different facets of music scholarship; there are, for instance, detective studies, exciting and provocative analytical descriptions, and the use of discovery...

The life and works of Franz Schubert . Illustrated with quotations from Schubert and his contemporaries, enhanced by extended extracts from representative works. In the companion booklet are essays and notes on Schubert's and his times.

Franz Schubert (1797-1828) was born in Vienna of immigrant parents. During his short life he produced an astonishing amount of music. Symphonies, chamber music, opera, church music, and songs (more than 600 of them) poured forth in profusion. His 'Trout' Quintet, his 'Unfinished' Symphony, the three last piano sonatas, and above all his song cycles Die Schone Mullerin and Winterreise have come to be universally regarded as belonging to the very greatest...

Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 8 in B minor, commonly known as the Unfinished, was started in 1822 but left with only two movements complete even though Schubert would live for another six years. Since Schubert's death at the age of 31, the Unfinished Symphony has been a bit of a mystery. Author and musicologist Habakuk Traber discusses research that has shed new light on the composer's original intentions. Daniel Barenboim conducts the Berlin Philharmonic....

Of all the great composers, Franz Schubert, who lived a mere thirty-one years, from 1797 to 1828, was perhaps the most fondly regarded by his contemporaries. And now, more than a hundred years after his death, he still charms us as his music, especially his songs, transports us from deep and death-regarding despair to the sunniest of moods. Drawing on considerable new material from Viennese sources, George Marek describes in detail how Schubert lived...