Christopher H. Gibbs (Editor) - The Cambridge Companion to Schubert

The Cambridge Companion to

SCHUBERT

Edited by Christopher H. Gibbs

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Cambridge University Press 1997

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First published 1997
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The Cambridge companion to Schubert / edited by Christopher H. Gibbs.

p. cm. (Cambridge companions to music)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0 521 48229 1 (hardback). ISBN 0 521 48424 3 (paperback).

1. Schubert, Franz, 17971828. I. Gibbs, Christopher Howard.

II. Series.

ML410.S3C18 1997

780.92dc20 9614260 CIP MN

[B]

ISBN-13 978-0-521-48229-5 hardback
ISBN-10 0-521-48229-1 hardback

ISBN-13 978-0-521-48424-4 paperback
ISBN-10 0-521-48424-3 paperback

Transferred to digital printing 2006

Contents

The contributors

Leon Botstein is President of Bard College, where he is Leon Levy Professor in the Arts and Humanities. He serves as the music director and principal conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra and the artistic director of the Bard Music Festival. He is editor of The Musical Quarterly and author of Judentum und Modernitt: Essays zur Rolle der Juden in der deutschen und sterreichischen Kultur, 18481938 and of the forthcoming Music and its Public: Habits of Listening and the Crisis of Musical Modernism in Vienna, 18701914.

Martin Chusid is Professor of Music and Director of the American Institute for Verdi Studies at New York University. He wrote his dissertation on Schuberts chamber music, edited and wrote a monograph on the Unfinished Symphony, edited the string quintets and a volume of string quartets for the Neue Schubert-Ausgabe, and wrote numerous articles on Schuberts music. He is currently preparing a facsimile edition of Schuberts Schwanengesang, together with a volume of essays. He has compiled a catalogue of Verdis operas, co-edited the Verdi Companion, edited Rigoletto for the new critical edition, and written numerous articles on the operas of Verdi, Mozart, and Dvo k.

Thomas A. Denny teaches music history at Skidmore College. He has published articles on Schubert in the Journal of Musicology, Journal of Musicological Research, Schubert durch die Brille, and is editing the opera Fierrabras for the Neue Schubert-Ausgabe. In 1995, in collaboration with the Westfield Center, he organized a conference on Schuberts piano music at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

Christopher H. Gibbs has taught music history at Columbia University, Haverford College, and currently at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the director of the Schubertiade at the 92nd Street Y in New York City. His dissertation, an examination of the reception of Schubert Lieder, won the 1992 dissertation prize of the Austrian Cultural Institute.

David Gramit is Associate Professor in music history at the University of Alberta. His essays on the social and intellectual context of Schuberts circle, Schubert reception, and the construction of musical meaning in nineteenth-century culture have appeared in 19th-Century Music, Music and Letters, the Journal of Musicological Research, Current Musicology, and Schubert durch die Brille.

L. Michael Griffel is Professor of Music at Hunter College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York, and serves on the graduate faculty at the Mannes College of Music. A specialist in the instrumental music of Schubert, he is completing Franz Schubert: A Guide to Research.

Xavier Hascher teaches music theory at Strasbourg University for the Humanities and is associate researcher at the Institute for Aesthetics and Art Sciences of Paris Panthon-Sorbonne University. He is the chairman of the French Schubert Society and editor of Cahiers F. Schubert. He has published Schubert, la forme sonate et son volution and is preparing another book on the reception of Schuberts works in France during the nineteenth century.

William Kinderman is Professor of Music at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, and has taught extensively at the Hochschule der Knste, Berlin. He is the author of Beethovens Diabelli Variations, Beethoven, and editor of Beethovens Compositional Process. An accomplished pianist, he has recorded the Diabelli Variations for Hyperion.

David Montgomery is a conductor, pianist, musicologist, and editor. He received the Ph.D. from U.C.L.A. in 1987 and has since contributed to major English and American journals on the subjects of performance practice and nineteenth-century aesthetics and analysis. He has served as editor and musicologist for Sony Classical and as a historical advisor to Columbia Pictures. As a pianist David Montgomery devotes himself particularly to nineteenth-century Viennese works, and as a conductor is engaged in a series of recordings with the Jena Philharmonic for BMGs Arte Nova label. Mr Montgomery lives in Hamburg, Germany.

Kristina Muxfeldt teaches music history at Yale University. She has published on a variety of topics in early nineteenth-century social history and aesthetics.

Margaret Notley has published articles on Brahms, Bruckner, and Viennese musical life in 19th-Century Music, the Journal of the American Musicological Society, and several anthologies. She is a fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities in 199697.

After a successful career as a schoolmaster, as a producer and administrator in the BBC education department,