Schubert's Beethoven Project

Why couldn't Schubert get his 'great' C-Major Symphony performed? Why was he the first composer to consistently write four movements for his piano sonatas? Since neither Schubert's nor Beethoven's piano sonatas were ever performed in public, who did hear them? Addressing these questions and many others, John M. Gingerich provides a new understanding of Schubert's career and his relationship to Beethoven. Placing the genres of string quartet, symphony, and piano sonata within the cultural context of the 1820s, the book examines how Schubert was building on Beethoven's legacy. Gingerich brings new understandings of how Schubert tried to shape his career to bear on new hermeneutic readings of the works from 1824 to 1828 that share musical and extra-musical pre-occupations, centering on the 'Death and the Maiden' Quartet and the Cello Quintet, as well as on analyses of the A-minor Quartet, the Octet, and of the 'great' C-Major Symphony.

Author: John M. Gingerich
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 09/01/2016
Pages: 376
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.78d
ISBN: 9781316621257

About the Author
Gingerich, John M.: - John M. Gingerich has published articles on Ignaz Schuppanzigh's premieres of Beethoven's late quartets, and on Schubert's C-Major Quintet, his Symphony in B-Minor ('Unfinished') and on his Latin Masses. He has been awarded ACLS and NEH Fellowships for his work on Schubert.