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Schubert's Poets and the Making of Lieder »

Authors: Susan Youens
ISBN-13: 9780521778626, ISBN-10: 052177862X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: October 1999
Edition: (Non-applicable)

A re-examination of the life and work of four poets and Schubert's settings of their verse.

	List of illustrations
	Preface
1	"The Sappho of Vienna": Gabriele von Baumberg and the disasters of war	1
2	The lyre and the sword: Theodor Korner and the lied	51
3	Chromatic melancholy: Johann Mayrhofer and Schubert	151
4	En route to Winterreise: Ernst Schulze and the sisterly muses, or a study in Romantic psychopathy	228
	Notes	331
	Select Bibliography	367
	Index	379