During his short lifetime, Franz Schubert (1797--1828) contributed to a wide variety of musical genres, from intimate songs and dances to ambitious chamber pieces, symphonies, and operas. The essays and translated documents in Franz Schubert and His World examine his compositions and ties to the Viennese cultural context, revealing surprising and overlooked aspects of his music.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Permissions and Credits
• Schubert: The Nonsense Society Revisited - RITA STEBLIN
• Excerpts from Beyträge zur Bildung für Jünglinge, 1817–1818 - ANTON VON SPAUN AND JOHANN MAYRHOFER TRANSLATED, INTRODUCED, AND ANNOTATED BY DAVID GRAMIT
• “Those of us who found our life in art”: The Second-Generation Romanticism of the Schubert-Schober Circle, 1820–1825 - JOHN M. GINGERICH
• Schubert's Kosegarten Settings of 1815: A Forgotten Liederspiel - MORTEN SOLVIK
• The Queen of Golconda, the Ashman, and the Shepherd on a Rock: Schubert and the Vienna Volkstheater - LISA FEURZEIG
• Liszt on Schubert's Alfonso und Estrella - INTRODUCED AND TRANSLATED BY ALLAN KEILER
• Schubert's Freedom of Song, If Not Speech - KRISTINA MUXFELDT
• Schubert's Tombeau de Beethoven: Decrypting the Piano Trio in E-flat Major, Op. 100 CHRISTOPHER H. GIBBS
• Schubert in History - LEON BOTSTEIN
• Notes on Contributors