Franz Schubert - The Complete Songs

A three-volume boxed set focusing on Franz Schubert's vocal music with piano. It contains more than seven hundred song commentaries with parallel text and translations, detailed annotations on the songs' poetic sources, and biographies of one hundred and twenty poets, as well as general articles on accompaniment, tonality, singers, and more.

About the author

Graham Johnson is Senior Professor of Accompaniment at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London, and plays for recitals around the world. In April 2013 he was awarded the Wigmore Hall Medal 'in recognition of his unstinting championing of Song and his extraordinary achievements on the concert platform and in the recording studio'.

Summary

A three-volume boxed set focusing on Franz Schubert's vocal music with piano. It contains more than seven hundred song commentaries with parallel text and translations, detailed annotations on the songs' poetic sources, and biographies of one hundred and twenty poets, as well as general articles on accompaniment, tonality, singers, and more.

Product details

• Authors: Graham Johnson
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.10.2014
• EAN: 9780300112672
• ISBN: 978-0-300-11267-2
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music; Romantik, Musiker, Sänger, Bands und Gruppen, Biografien: Kunst und Unterhaltung, Komponisten und Songwriter, MUSIC / History & Criticism, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical