Discussion of the 47 songs and (briefly) 2 operas Schubert set to Mayrhofer's writings; includes song texts in German with authors' English translations. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Background (Vienna before and during Schubert's lifetime. Schubert before Mayrhofer. Mayrhofer before Schubert. Schubert, Mayrhofer and their time. The German Lied before and after Schubert. Schubert's choice of poets) -- Speculations and beginning (Schubert, victim of character and history. Sexuality and art, a fraught debate . Shaky evidence. 'The young peacocks' and two puzzles. A summing-up in an un-conclusive case. Am See, D.124 (1814). Liane, D.298 (1815). The opera, Die Freunde von Salamanka, D.326 1816) -- Schubert and Mayrhofer in 1816. Fragment aus dem Aeschylus, D 450. Liedesend, D.473. Abschied : Über die Berge, D.475. Rückweg, D.476. Alte Liebe rostet nie, D.477. Der Hirt, D.490. Geheimnis, an Franz Schubert, D.491. Zum Punsche, D.492. Abendiied der Fürstin, D.495) -- The Mayrhofer songs of January-March 1817 (Der Alpenjager, D.524. Wie Ulfru fischt, D.525. Fahrt zum Hades, D.526. Schlaflied, D.527. Der Schiffer, D.536. Am Strome, D.539. Philoktet, D.540. Memnon, D.541. Antigone und Oedip, D.542. Orest auf Tauris, D.548. Der entsunhte Orest, D.699) -- The later songs of 1817 (Auf der Donau, D.553. Nach einem Gewitter, D.561. Iphigenia, D.573. Augenlied, D.297. Sehnsucht, D.516. Atys, D.585. Erlafsee, D.586. Freiwilliges Versinken, D.700) -- Three epics (Uraniens Flucht, D.544. Die Einsamkeit, D.620. The opera, Adrast, D.137) -- The songs from the Wipplingerstrasse (An die Freunde, D.654. Beim Winde, D.669. Die Sternennächte, D.670. Trost, D. 671. Nachtstück, D.672. Über alien Zauber Liebe, D.682. Der zürnenden Diana, D.707. The remaining period with Mayrhofer) -- The final Mayrhofer songs (Nachtviolen, D.752. Aus Heliopolis I, D.753. Aus Heliopolis II, D.754. Lied eines Schiffers an die Dioskuren, D.360. Schubert, between April 1822 and March 1824. Der Sieg, D.805. Abendstem, D.806. Auflösung, D.807. Gondelfahrer, D.808. Gondelfahrer (for vocal quartet), D.809) -- Triumph and catastrophe (An accident of history. Mayrhofer after 1824. Postludes).
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