Description
An accessible multi-disciplinary exploration of Franz Schubert's haunting late song cycle Winterreise (1827) that combines context and different analytical approaches.
About the Author
Marjorie W. Hirsch is Professor of Music at Williams College in Massachusetts. She is the author of Schubert's Dramatic Lieder (1993) and Romantic Lieder and the Search for Lost Paradise (2007) and has more recently contributed to The Unknown Schubert (2008), Schubert's Late Music in History and Theory (2016), Drama in the Music of Franz Schubert (2019), and The Oxford Handbook of Faust in Music (2019). Lisa Feurzeig is Professor of Music, Theatre and Dance at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. She is the author of Schubert's Lieder and the Philosophy of Early German Romanticism (2014) and has contributed editions, articles, and chapters on Schubert, the Viennese Volkstheater, and Viennese operetta. In 2017-18 she was Fulbright-IFK Senior Fellow in Cultural Studies in Vienna. She has co-directed and performed in cabaret-style lecture-performances emphasizing music in its historical contexts.
Reviews
'(This) should appeal to any lieder-loving reader of Gramophone.' Richard Wigmore, Gramophone
Book Information
ISBN 9781108965804
Author Marjorie W. Hirsch
Format Paperback
Page Count 320
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 530g
Dimensions(mm) 170mm * 245mm * 15mm