Schubert Songs

Many of Schubert's six hundred songs were composed quickly, and often in the midst of of a gathering of friends loudly revelling or performing other music. Sometimes that remarkable facility would be exercised while walking in company through the woods round Vienna. John Watson has composed a sequence of scenes from this prodigious working life - sometimes in Schubert's own voice, sometimes in the voices of critics or friends. Here are glimpses - forming a song cycle, as it were - depicting Schubert at work or between songs, until the final fortnight's struggle when he leaves them behind.

Product details

• Authors: John Watson
• Publisher: Ginninderra Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2022
• EAN: 9781761094552
• ISBN: 978-1-76109-455-2
• No. of pages: 62
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 4 mm
• Weight: 78 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries