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SCHUBERT STUDIES Schubert Studies Edited by Brian Newbould First published 1998 by Ashgate Publishing Published 2017 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA Routledge is an imprint ofthe Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business Copyright © The individual contributors, 1998 The editor and contributors have asserted their moral rights. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication data Schubert studies 1. Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828 - Criticism and interpretation 1. Newbould, Brian 780.9'2 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data Schubert studies / edited by Brian Newbould. Includes index. Contents: Schubert's tempo conventions / Clive Brown - Schubert's transitions / Susan Wollenberg - Schubert's string and piano duos in context / Elizabeth Norman McKay - 'Am Meer' reconsidered : strophic, binary, or ternary? / Edward T Cone - Schubert's 'Great' C major symphony : the autograph revisited / Brian Newbould - 'Biding his time' : Schubert among the Bohemians in the mid nineteenth century / Jan Smaczny - Architecture as drama in late Schubert / Roy Howat - Schubert's piano sonatas : thoughts about interpretation and performance / Andras Schiff - Schubert and the Ungers : a preliminary study / Peter Branscombe - Schubert's relationship with women : an historical account / Rita Steblin - Adversity : Schubert's illnesses and their background / Peter Gilroy Bevan. 1. Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828. 1. Newbould, Brian ML410.S3S2995 1998 780'.92-dc21 98-12585 CIP MN Typeset in Sabon by Raven Typesetters, Chester ISBN 13: 978-1-85928-253-3 (hbk) Contents List of plates Vll Notes on contributors IX Introduction Xl 1 Schubert's tempo conventions 1 Clive Brown 2 Schubert's transitions 16 Susan Wollenberg 3 Schubert's string and piano duos in context 62 Elizabeth Norman McKay 4 'Am Meer' reconsidered: strophic, binary, or ternary? 112 Edward T Co ne 5 Schubert's 'Great' C major Symphony: the autograph revisited 127 Brian Newbould 6 'Biding his time' - Schubert among the Bohemians in the mid-nineteenth century 153 fan Smaczny 7 Architecture as drama in late Schubert 166 RoyHowat 8 Schubert's piano sonatas: thoughts about interpretation and performance 191 Andras Schiff v vi Schubert Studies 9 Schubert and the Ungers: a prelirninary study 209 Peter Branscombe 10 Schubert's relationship with wornen: an historical account 220 Rita Steblin 11 Adversity: Schubert's illnesses and their background 244 Peter Gi/roy Bevan Index of Schubert's works 267 General Index 271 List of plates between pages 146 and 147 1 Symphony No. 9, folio 13r (autograph score). Reproduced by permission of the Archiv der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Wien. 2 Symphony in E, folio 57. Reproduced by permission of the Royal College of Music. 3 Symphony No. 9, folio 130v (autograph score). Reproduced by permission of the Archiv der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Wien 4 Symphony in E, final page of last movement (sketch). Reproduced by permission of the Royal College of Music. 5 Engraving of Caroline Unger from O.E. Deutsch, Franz Schubert. Sein Leben in Bildern (München and Leipzig, 1913). Reproduced by permission of the British Library. 6 Portrait of Nikolaus Lenau from Nikolaus Lenau, Sämtliche Werke Briefe (Stuggart, 1959). 7 'Zur Unsinniade-5ter Gesang, 31 December 1817'. Watercolour by Carl Friedrich Zimmermann. Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien, LN. 71.695/43. 8 'Schubert and the Kaleidoscope, Kupelwieser and the Draisine'. Watercolour by Leopold Kupelwieser, Unsinnsgesellschaft newsletter dated 16 ]uly 1818. Weiner Stadt-und Landesbibliothek Handschriftensammlung, ]b 86, 126/7. 9 Watercolour portrait of Schubert by Wilhe1m August-Rieder (1825) from O.E. Deutsch, Schubert: A Documentary Biography (London, 1946). Reproduced by kind permission of ].M. Dent and Sons. 10 Anonymous portrait of Schubert aged about 18 years from Heritage of Music - The Romantic Era (Oxford, 1989). Reproduced by kind permission of Oxford University Press. 11 A lancet used for bleeding in the nineteenth century. Photograph by Peter Gilroy Bevan. Reproduced by kind permission of the President and Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Vll Notes on Contributors Peter Branscombe is Emeritus Professor of Austrian Studies at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of the Cambridge Opera Handbook on Die Zauberfläte, and co-editor with Eva Badura-Skoda of Schubert Studies: Problems of Style and Chronology (Cambridge, 1982). He is currently editing the last six plays of Nestroy for the new Complete Edition (Vienna). Clive Brown is Reader in Music at Bretton Hall College, University of Leeds. His publications include Louis Spohr: A Critical Biography (Cambridge, 1984), A New Appraisal of the Sources of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony (Wiesbaden, 1996), and many articles, as weIl as critical editions of music by Weber, Spohr and Beethoven. His latest book is Classical and Romantic Performing Practice (Oxford, 1998), and he is currently writing a book on Mendelssohn for Yale University Press. Edward T. Cone is Professor Emeritus of the Music Department at Princeton University, where he taught from 1947 to 1965. He has composed numerous works for piano, voice, chamber groups and orchestra. A former editor of the periodical Perspectives of New Music, he is author of three books and numerous articles on musical critical and analytical subjects. Peter Gilroy Bevan is Emeritus Consultant Surgeon and was Postgraduate Dean of Birmingham Medical SchooI. He is a past President of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland, and Vice-President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Professor Gilroy Bevan is the author of books and articles on surgery and medical training. He has a special interest in the illnesses of eight eenth-and nineteenth-century composers. Pianist Roy Howat has performed and broadcast Schubert's piano music world wide, and has also recorded compact discs of music by Chabrier and Debussy. He is a co-founding editor of the (Euvres Completes de Claude Debussy. Among his other publications are Urtext editions of Handel, Faun! and Chabrier, the book Debussy in proportion, and chapters and articles on various composers. IX
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