Life of Franz Schubert

Klappentext The 1869 English translation of the first full-length biography of the celebrated composer, incorporating reminiscences of his contemporaries. Zusammenfassung Viennese lawyer Heinrich Kreissle von Hellborn (1812–69) was the first of the composer Schubert's biographers. This 1869 English translation of the 1865 original is by Arthur Duke Coleridge, founder of the Bach Choir, and it contains an appendix by George Grove on his rediscovery of several manuscripts of Schubert's works. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Schubert' family; 2. Schubert leaves the convict; 3. Ballads; 4. 'Jubilee cantata'; 5. Johann Michael Vogel; 6. Schubert as music-teacher; 7. Rossini-worship at Vienna; 8. The musical drama Die Zwillingsbrüder; 9. Schubert's circumstances; 10. Schubert and von Schober in Ochsenburg; 11. The drama Rosamunde.

Product details

• Authors: Heinrich Kreissle von Hellborn
• Assisted by: Arthur D. Coleridge (Translation)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.10.2014
• EAN: 9781108077965
• ISBN: 978-1-108-07796-5
• No. of pages: 338
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Music; Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Music
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries