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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780077103321

Autore

Fisk Charles

Titolo

Returning cycles [[electronic resource] ] : contexts for the interpretation of Schubert's impromptus and last sonatas / / Charles Fisk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2001

ISBN

0-520-92578-5

1-59734-867-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (324 p.)

Collana

California studies in 19th century music ; ; 11

Disciplina

786.2/1894/092

Soggetti

Piano music - Analysis, appreciation

Sonatas (Piano) - Analysis, appreciation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue: Schubert after Winterreise; 1. Resonant Beginnings; 2. Fields of Resonance; 3. The Wanderer's Tracks; 4. Retelling the "Unfinished"; 5. Expanding the Scope of Schubertian Tonality; 6. Displacing the Sonata: The Opus 142 Impromptus; 7. Beethoven in the Image of Schubert; 8. Recovering a Song of Origin; 9. Schubert's Last "Wanderer"; Afterword; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This compelling investigation of the later music of  Franz Schubert explores the rich terrain of Schubert's impromptus and last piano sonatas. Drawing on the relationships between these pieces and Schubert's Winterreise song cycle, his earlier ""Der Wanderer,"" the closely related ""Unfinished"" Symphony, and his story of exile and homecoming, ""My Dream,"" Charles Fisk explains how Schubert's view of his own life may well have shaped his music in the years shortly before his death.