Table Of ContentSCHUBERT STUDIES
Schubert Studies
Edited by
Brian Newbould
First published 1998 by Ashgate Publishing
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British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication data
Schubert studies
1. Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828 - Criticism and interpretation
1. Newbould, Brian
780.9'2
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data
Schubert studies / edited by Brian Newbould.
Includes index.
Contents: Schubert's tempo conventions / Clive Brown - Schubert's
transitions / Susan Wollenberg - Schubert's string and piano duos
in context / Elizabeth Norman McKay - 'Am Meer' reconsidered :
strophic, binary, or ternary? / Edward T Cone - Schubert's 'Great'
C major symphony : the autograph revisited / Brian Newbould -
'Biding his time' : Schubert among the Bohemians in the mid
nineteenth century / Jan Smaczny - Architecture as drama in late
Schubert / Roy Howat - Schubert's piano sonatas : thoughts about
interpretation and performance / Andras Schiff - Schubert and the
Ungers : a preliminary study / Peter Branscombe - Schubert's
relationship with women : an historical account / Rita Steblin -
Adversity : Schubert's illnesses and their background / Peter Gilroy
Bevan.
1. Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828. 1. Newbould, Brian
ML410.S3S2995 1998
780'.92-dc21 98-12585
CIP
MN
Typeset in Sabon by Raven Typesetters, Chester
ISBN 13: 978-1-85928-253-3 (hbk)
Contents
List of plates
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Notes on contributors IX
Introduction
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1 Schubert's tempo conventions 1
Clive Brown
2 Schubert's transitions 16
Susan Wollenberg
3 Schubert's string and piano duos in context 62
Elizabeth Norman McKay
4 'Am Meer' reconsidered: strophic, binary, or ternary? 112
Edward T Co ne
5 Schubert's 'Great' C major Symphony: the autograph
revisited 127
Brian Newbould
6 'Biding his time' - Schubert among the Bohemians in
the mid-nineteenth century 153
fan Smaczny
7 Architecture as drama in late Schubert 166
RoyHowat
8 Schubert's piano sonatas: thoughts about interpretation
and performance 191
Andras Schiff
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vi Schubert Studies
9 Schubert and the Ungers: a prelirninary study 209
Peter Branscombe
10 Schubert's relationship with wornen: an historical
account 220
Rita Steblin
11 Adversity: Schubert's illnesses and their background 244
Peter Gi/roy Bevan
Index of Schubert's works 267
General Index 271
List of plates
between pages 146 and 147
1 Symphony No. 9, folio 13r (autograph score). Reproduced by
permission of the Archiv der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Wien.
2 Symphony in E, folio 57. Reproduced by permission of the Royal
College of Music.
3 Symphony No. 9, folio 130v (autograph score). Reproduced by
permission of the Archiv der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Wien
4 Symphony in E, final page of last movement (sketch). Reproduced by
permission of the Royal College of Music.
5 Engraving of Caroline Unger from O.E. Deutsch, Franz Schubert.
Sein Leben in Bildern (München and Leipzig, 1913). Reproduced
by permission of the British Library.
6 Portrait of Nikolaus Lenau from Nikolaus Lenau, Sämtliche
Werke Briefe (Stuggart, 1959).
7 'Zur Unsinniade-5ter Gesang, 31 December 1817'. Watercolour
by Carl Friedrich Zimmermann. Historisches Museum der Stadt
Wien, LN. 71.695/43.
8 'Schubert and the Kaleidoscope, Kupelwieser and the Draisine'.
Watercolour by Leopold Kupelwieser, Unsinnsgesellschaft
newsletter dated 16 ]uly 1818. Weiner Stadt-und Landesbibliothek
Handschriftensammlung, ]b 86, 126/7.
9 Watercolour portrait of Schubert by Wilhe1m August-Rieder
(1825) from O.E. Deutsch, Schubert: A Documentary Biography
(London, 1946). Reproduced by kind permission of ].M. Dent
and Sons.
10 Anonymous portrait of Schubert aged about 18 years from
Heritage of Music - The Romantic Era (Oxford, 1989). Reproduced
by kind permission of Oxford University Press.
11 A lancet used for bleeding in the nineteenth century. Photograph
by Peter Gilroy Bevan. Reproduced by kind permission of the
President and Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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Notes on Contributors
Peter Branscombe is Emeritus Professor of Austrian Studies at the University of St
Andrews. He is the author of the Cambridge Opera Handbook on Die
Zauberfläte, and co-editor with Eva Badura-Skoda of Schubert Studies: Problems
of Style and Chronology (Cambridge, 1982). He is currently editing the last six
plays of Nestroy for the new Complete Edition (Vienna).
Clive Brown is Reader in Music at Bretton Hall College, University of Leeds. His
publications include Louis Spohr: A Critical Biography (Cambridge, 1984), A
New Appraisal of the Sources of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony (Wiesbaden, 1996),
and many articles, as weIl as critical editions of music by Weber, Spohr and
Beethoven. His latest book is Classical and Romantic Performing Practice
(Oxford, 1998), and he is currently writing a book on Mendelssohn for Yale
University Press.
Edward T. Cone is Professor Emeritus of the Music Department at Princeton
University, where he taught from 1947 to 1965. He has composed numerous
works for piano, voice, chamber groups and orchestra. A former editor of the
periodical Perspectives of New Music, he is author of three books and numerous
articles on musical critical and analytical subjects.
Peter Gilroy Bevan is Emeritus Consultant Surgeon and was Postgraduate Dean
of Birmingham Medical SchooI. He is a past President of the Association of
Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland, and Vice-President of the Royal College of
Surgeons of England. Professor Gilroy Bevan is the author of books and articles
on surgery and medical training. He has a special interest in the illnesses of eight
eenth-and nineteenth-century composers.
Pianist Roy Howat has performed and broadcast Schubert's piano music world
wide, and has also recorded compact discs of music by Chabrier and Debussy. He
is a co-founding editor of the (Euvres Completes de Claude Debussy. Among his
other publications are Urtext editions of Handel, Faun! and Chabrier, the book
Debussy in proportion, and chapters and articles on various composers.
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