1st Edition
Schubert's Lieder and the Philosophy of Early German Romanticism
By Lisa Feurzeig
Copyright 2014
214 Pages
by
Routledge
214 Pages
by
Routledge
214 Pages
by
Routledge
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This study of Franz Schubert's settings of poetry by Friedrich Schlegel and Novalis introduces the fascinating world of early German Romanticism in the 1790s, when an energetic group of bold young thinkers radically changed the landscape of European thought. Schubert's encounters with early Romantic poetry some twenty years later reanimated some of the movement's central ideas. Schubert set... Read more
Chapter 1 The Berlin/Jena Romantics; Chapter 2 Case Study: “Die Berge” and Schubert as Abstract Thinker; Chapter 3 Early Romantic Hermeneutics; Chapter 4 Nature at Twilight: Schlegel’s and Schubert’s Abendröte; Chapter 5 Religion by Night: Schubert’s Novalis Settings; Chapter 6 Creation in the Forest: “Im Walde”;
Biography
Lisa Feurzeig has written on vocal music of various kinds, from Wagner’s operas to Schubert’s Lieder, a German songbook of the Napoleonic era, and the Vienna Volkstheater. As a singer, she performs art song and chamber music. She is Professor of Music at Grand Valley State University in Michigan.
'...Feuerzeig’s Schubert’s Lieder and the Philosophy of Early Romanticism takes the more traditional path as a narrowly focused interpretation of a few works, while nevertheless implicitly making a bold assertion: that Schubert’s Lieder not only contain ideas, but substantial concepts grounded in philosophical issues...Feuerzeig asks, “What happens if we think what Schubert is thinking?” (xv). This simple question invites us to do a number of very complex things, all of which Feuerzeig enacts in her wide-ranging inquiry.' - James H. Donelan, European Romantic Review, 27:4
