Schubert and His Work

Schubert and His Work

A sense of helplessness and futility overcomes the writer who, in the limits of a volume as unpretending as the present one, endeavors to give the casual radio listener a slight idea of Schuberts inundating fecundity and inspiration. Like Bach, like Haydn, like Mozart, Schuberts capacity for creative labor staggers the imagination and, like them, he conferred upon an unworthyor, rather, an indifferentgeneration treasures beyond price and almost beyond counting. Outwardly, his life was far less spectacular than Beethovens or Mozarts. His works are the mirror of what it must have been spiritually. Volumes would not exhaust the wonder of his myriad creations. If this tiny book serves to heighten even a little the readers interest in such songs, symphonies, piano or chamber works of Schubert as come to his attention over the air it will have achieved the most that can be asked of it. The most lovable and the shortest-lived of the great composers, Franz Seraph Peter Schubert was doubly a paradox. He was the only one of the outstanding Viennese masters (unless one chooses to include in this category the Strauss waltz kings) actually born in Vienna; and, though there has never been a composer more spiritually Viennese, Schubert inherited not a drop of Viennese blood. His ancestry had its roots in the Moravian and Austrian-Silesian soil. His grandfather, Karl Schubert, a peasant and a local magistrate, lived in one of the thirty-five towns called Neudorf in Moravian-Silesian territory and married the daughter of a well-to-do farmer, acquiring by the match a large tract of land and ten children of whom the fifth, Franz Theodor Florian, was destined to beget an immortal. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 49026
Author: Peyser, Herbert F. (Herbert Francis)
Release Date: May 23, 2015
Format: eBook
Language: English