Contents

Notes on the contributors

Chronology

Note to the reader

Acknowledgments

Introduction: the elusive Schubert Christopher H. Gibbs

Part I: Contexts: musical, political, and cultural

1 Realism transformed: Franz Schubert and Vienna Leon Botstein

2 “Poor Schubert”: images and legends of the composer Christopher H. Gibbs

3 “The Passion for friendship”: music, cultivation, and identity in Schubert’s circle David Gramit

4 Schubert’s inflections of Classical form Charles Rosen

5 Schubert and his poets: issues and conundrums Susan Youens

Part II: Schubert’s music: style and genre

6 Schubert’s songs: the transformation of a genre Kristina Muxfeldt

7 Schubert’s social music: the “forgotten genres” Margaret Notley

8 Schubert’s piano music: probing the human condition William Kinderman

9 Schubert’s chamber music: before and after Beethoven Martin Chusid

10 Schubert’s orchestral music: “strivings after the highest in art” L. Michael Griffel

11 Schubert’s religious and choral music: toward a statement of faith Glenn Stanley

12 Schubert’s operas: “the judgment of history?” Thomas A. Denny

Part III: Reception

13 German reception: Schubert’s “journey to immortality” Christopher H. Gibbs

14 Schubert’s reception history in nineteenth-century England John Reed

15 Schubert’s reception in France: a chronology (1828–1928) Xavier Hascher

16 Franz Schubert’s music in performance: a brief history of people, events, and issues David Montgomery

Notes

Index