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| Named Person: | Franz Schubert; Franz Schubert; Franz Schubert |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Brian Newbould |
| ISBN: | 0520210654 9780520210653 0520219570 9780520219571 |
| OCLC Number: | 36001321 |
| Description: | 465 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Responsibility: | Brian Newbould. |
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Abstract:
Of all the great composers, none - not even Mozart - has been so dogged by myth and misunderstanding as Franz Schubert. The notion of Schubert as a pudgy, lovelorn Bohemian schwammerl (mushroom) scribbling tunes on the back of menus in idle moments has never quite been eradicated. In this major new biography, Brian Newbould balances discussion of Schubert's compositions with an exploration of biographical influences that shaped his musical aesthetics. Schubert: The Music and the Man offers an eminently readable description of a musician who was compulsively dedicated to his art - a composer so prolific that he produced over a thousand works in eighteen years.
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"The best introduction to Schubert and his world. . . . [Newbould] gives us a real sense of why classical music worked and why it still speaks to us."--Ian Bostridge, "Wall Street Journal
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