6 Juni 2024, 5 p.m.-6.30 p.m.
Arabella Pare, "Franz Schubert. The Fragmentary Piano Sonatas." Stuttgart: Franz Steiner 2022 (Schubert: Perspektiven 7)
Commentators: Xavier Hascher, Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl
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This study of the fragmentary piano sonatas by Franz Schubert, composed between 1815 and 1825, offers an individual analysis of each work, based upon a tripartite approach. It focuses on the aesthetic-philosophical nature of fragmentary works of art, the philological study of the extant manuscripts as well as recorded notational material and musical analyses. The research presented includes a new perspective of Schubert's commitment to questions of form and compositional renewal and individuality. The engagement with the incomplete, unfinished and fragmentary piano sonatas makes it possible to see the paths towards the later, more well-known compositions. In these works of the early nineteenth century, the working-processes and musical innovations of the composer Franz Schubert are seen as a development of a highly personal stylistic and formal integrity and independence over the course of a productive and innovative decade.
31 January 2024, 17:00 MEZ
Lorraine Byrne Bodley, „Schubert. A Musical Wayfarer“, Yale University Press 2023
Commentators: Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen, Susan Youens
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In this major new biography, Lorraine Byrne Bodley takes a detailed look into Schubert’s life, from his early years at the Stadtkonvikt to the harrowing battle with syphilis that led to his death at the age of thirty-one. Drawing on extensive archival research in Vienna and the Czech Republic, and reconsidering the meaning of some of his best-known works, Bodley provides a fuller account than ever before of Schubert’s extraordinary achievement and incredible courage. This is a compelling new portrait of one of the most beloved composers of the nineteenth century.