Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	vii
Permissions and Credits	xvii
Schubert: The Nonsense Society Revisited	1
RITA STEBLIN
Excerpts from Beyträge zur Bildung für Jünglinge, 1817–1818	39
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	67
JOHN M. GINGERICH
Schubert’s Kosegarten Settings of 1815: A Forgotten Liederspiel	115
MORTEN SOLVIK
The Queen of Golconda, the Ashman, and the Shepherd on a Rock: Schubert and the Vienna Volkstheater	157
LISA FEURZEIG
Liszt on Schubert’s Alfonso und Estrella	183
INTRODUCED AND TRANSLATED BY ALLAN KEILER
Schubert’s Freedom of Song, If Not Speech	201
KRISTINA MUXFELDT
Schubert’s Tombeau de Beethoven: Decrypting the Piano Trio in E-flat Major, Op. 100	241
CHRISTOPHER H. GIBBS
Schubert in History	299
LEON BOTSTEIN
Index	349
Notes on Contributors	363