Retracing a Winter's Journey Franz Schubert's Winterreise

Name: Retracing a Winter's Journey Franz Schubert's Winterreise
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ISBN: 9780801499661

ISBN-10: 0801499666

ISBN-13: 9780801499661

Edition: 2013

Authors: Susan Youens

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I like these songs better than all the rest, and someday you will too, Franz Schubert told the friends who were the first to hear his song cycle Winterreise. These lieder have always found admiring audiences, but the poetry he chose to set them to has been widely regarded as weak and trivial. Susan Youens looks not only at Schubert's music but at the poetry, drawn from the works of Wilhelm Müller, who once wrote in his diary, "perhaps there is a kindred spirit somewhere who will hear the tunes behind the words and give them back to me!"Youens maintains that Müller, in depicting the wanderings of the alienated lover, produced poetry that was simple but not simple-minded, poetry that embraced…

Book details

List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 5/6/2015
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 348
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English