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Schubert Songs

Schubert Songs

John Watson

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Ginninderra Press
Año de edición:
2022
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Poesía
ISBN:
9781761094552
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Many of Schubert’s six hundred songs were composed quickly, and often in the midst of of a gathering of friends loudly revelling or performing other music. Sometimes that remarkable facility would be exercised while walking in company through the woods round Vienna. John Watson has composed a sequence of scenes from this prodigious working life - sometimes in Schubert’s own voice, sometimes in the voices of critics or friends. Here are glimpses - forming a song cycle, as it were - depicting Schubert at work or between songs, until the final fortnight’s struggle when he leaves them behind.

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