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Schubert's Goethe Settings.(Historical and Analytical Studies)(Book Review)
From: Notes
Date: 20040601
Author:Hirsch, Marjorie
Schubert's Goethe Settings. By Lorraine Byrne. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2003. [xix, 512 p. ISBN 0-7546-0695-3. $99.] Music examples, bibliography, index.
Although Franz Schubert's eighty-two musical settings of texts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe are widely known and highly esteemed, they remain misunderstood because of entrenched misconceptions about both composer and poet. So argues Lorraine Byrne, a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Germanic Studies at Trinity College, Dublin, in her encyclopedic study Schubert's Goethe Settings. With "Gretchen am Spinnrade" (D. ...
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