Background
Introduction
I've categorised as 'background information books' those books which are of a factual nature about Schubert, or background to him, but which are not intended to be complete biographies. Also includes a section of the 10th Deutsches Sängerbundesfest in Vienna 1928.
| Author: | Karl Adametz | Title: | Franz Schubert in der Geschichte des Wiener Männegesang-Vereines. |
| Desc: | Wiener Männergesang-Vereines.
n.d. (1938). 194pp. frontisepiece, plates, one tipped in colour
plate.In German Hilmar #7. |
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| Notes: | Articles, tables of facts, etc., relating to Schubert and the Vienna Männergesang-Vereines. | ||
| Author: | Eva Badura-Skoda, et al (editors) | Title: | Schubert und seine Freunde |
| Desc: | Böhlau, Vienna.
1999. ISBN 3-205-98853-1. 403pp, illustrated, musical examples,
indexes. Hilmar #91. |
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| Notes: | A collection of 29 essays on Schubert and his Friends, mostly in German, but 4 are in English | ||
| Author: | Cecilia C Baumann | Title: | Wilhelm Müller The Poet of the Schubert Song Cycles: His Life and Works |
| Desc: | Pennsylvania State
University Press, University Park. 1981. ISBN 0-271-00266-2. 191pp
including appendices, notes, comprehensive bibliography and index. 4
illustrations. Hilmar #144. |
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| Notes: | Life and Works of Wilhelm Müller, the poet of the Schubert song cycles Die Schöne Müllerin and Winterreise | ||
| Author: | Marcel Brion | Title: | Daily Life in the Vienna of Mozart and Schubert |
| Desc: | Weidenfeld and Nicholson,
London; 1961 & Macmillan, New York; 1962. 264pp plus notes,
index. Many illustrations. Hilmar #353. |
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| Notes: | Translated from the original French language book La vie Quotidienne a Vienne a l'Epoch de Mozart et de Schubert (and also translated into other languages, such as Spanish). Some useful background information, but very little on Schubert (or Mozart, come to that). Disappointing. | ||
| Author: | Maurice Brown | Title: | Essays on Schubert |
| Desc: | Macmillan, London; St
Martins, New York; 1966. 305pp plus index. Many plates and musical
examples. Hilmar #405. |
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| Notes: | As implied by the title, this is a collection of some 14 essays across over 300 pages. The essays are in 3 groups; The Music, The Composer and Manuscripts and Editions. Consistently interesting essays, including several which are rather technical, across a wide range of Schubertian subjects. There are fascinating documents about this book in the SIRC. | ||
| Author: | Otto Erich Deutsch | Title: | Schubert und Grillparzer ein Vortrag |
| Desc: | Wiener
Bibliophen-Gesellschaft, Vienna. 1949. 26pp. In German |
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| Notes: | Short paper on Schubert and Grillparzer. | ||
| Author: | Ilija Dürhammer | Title: | Schuberts literarische Heimat |
| Desc: | Böhlau, Vienna,
1999. 406pp with illustations, tables and charts. In German Hilmar #822. |
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| Notes: | A huge work, from his doctoral thesis, about Schubert's literary friends. | ||
| Author: | Raymond Erickson (ed) | Title: | Schubert's Vienna |
| Desc: | Yale University Press,
New Haven. 1997. ISBN 9 780300 070804. 283pp, many illustrations and
23 colour plates. Hilmar #1011. |
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| Notes: | Essays on Vienna in Schubert's time. There is a more detailed review of this book in the reviews section. | ||
| Author: | Reinhard Göltl | Title: | Franz Schubert und Moritz von Schwind: Freundschaft im Biedermeier |
| Desc: | Nymphenburger, Munich,
1989. 155pp. Many illustrations and musical examples. In German Hilmar # 1289 |
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| Notes: | A book on Schubert and Schwind and their friendship, with many of the expected pictures, plus others from Schwind's output. Also has plenty of musical examples. | ||
| Author: | Karl Kobald | Title: | Alt-Wiener Musikstätten |
| Desc: | Amalthea, Zurich,
Leipzig, Vienna, 1919. 198pp, many illustrations. In German.
Kahl # 1452. |
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| Notes: | A book, as the title says, about Musical 'sites' in Vienna. Largely rewritten with completely different (more 'people oriented') pictures in later editions (of which there are several - the 1947 edition is over 400 pages). Has a general introductory chapter, and then chapters on Gluck, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert. | ||
| Author: | Karl Kobald | Title: | Schubert und Schwind Ein Wiener Biedermeierbuch |
| Desc: | Amalthea-Verlag, Vienna,
1921. 253pp, several plates. In German. Kahl # 1521. |
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| Notes: | A biographical book with an emphasis on Schubetrs relationship with Moritz von Schwind. Includes an appendix of letters. | ||
| Author: | Dr. Anton Neumayr translated by Bruce Cooper Clarke | Title: | Music and Medicine, Volume 1 |
| Desc: | Medi-Ed Press,
Bloomington; 1994. ISBN. 0-936741-05-8. 447pp, including
bibliography, medical editor's notes, indexes. Hilmar # 2577. |
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| Notes: | Translated from the original German Musik und Medizin, Am Beispiel der Wiener Klassik. Short biographies, focussed on the medical histories of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert. There is a detailed review in the reviews section of the bibliography. | ||
| Author: | Ludwig J Sedlitzky | Title: | Beethoven und Schubert in Niederdonau |
| Desc: | Niederdonau, Ahnengau des
Führers, St. Pölten. n.d. [ca1930s] Hilmar # 3201 |
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| Notes: | Pamphlet on Beethoven and Schubert in Niederdonau | ||
| Author: | Rita Steblin | Title: | Die Unsinnsgesellschaft Franz Schubert, Leopold Kupelwieser und ihr Freundeskreis |
| Desc: | Böhlau, Vienna,
1998. 490pp, many illustrations, with 16 pages of full colour
plates. Usual appendices. Hilmar # 3320 |
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| Notes: | Drawings and transcription of papers from the Unsinnsgesellschaft. The Unsinnsgesellschaft was a society whose members included Franz Schubert and member of his circle such as Josef and Leopold Kupelwieser and Ludwig Kraißl. As always with Steblin, a meticulously researched work with many new documents and pictures (14 by Leopold Kupelwieser) discovered in her researches. Two of these contemporary pictures show Schubert. Handsomely produced. | ||
| Author: | Anton Weiß | Title: | Fünfzig Jahre Schubertbund |
| Desc: | Schubertbund, Vienna,
1913. 344pp plus 79pp of appendices. 11in x 9in. Frontispiece, many
illustrations and photographs, facsimile of Schubert's death notice.
(in German) Kahl # 1309. |
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| Notes: | 50th Anniversary chronicle of the Wiener Schubertbund, in German. Details of their activities each year, appendices include lists of members and performances. | ||
10th Deutsches Sängerbundesfest
| Author: | Max Andre | Title: | Zehntes Deutsches Sängerbundesfest Wien 1928. |
| Desc: | Dörschel & v.
Witzleben, Hannover, 1928. 32pp, many photographs. In German Not in Kahl |
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| Notes: | Another memoir of the 10th Deutsches Sängerbundesfest in Vienna 1928, published in Hannover. Has a poem by Max Andre, but no other background information, just pictures. The large format is largely wasted, as only a single picture is given full size. Otherwise we have pictures similar to, or the same as, those in the Harbauer and Lechner books, but four per page. Much harder to find than the other Sängerbundesfest memoirs. | ||
| Author: | Prof. Emil Fladt | Title: | Erinnerungen an das 10. Deutsche Sängerbundesfest Wien 1928 |
| Desc: | Stadion, Stuttgart, 1928.
96pp with many photographs. In German Not in Kahl |
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| Notes: | Memoir of the 10th Deutsches Sängerbundesfest in Vienna 1928. Produced as a souvenir for the participants, but published in Stuttgart, not Vienna. Some useful background information and pictures, including a 15" long fold-out paroramic 'fish eye' view of the first performance at a full Sängerhalle. Similar to, but smaller than, and harder to find than the Harbauer and Lechner books. | ||
| Author: | Karl Harbauer | Title: | 10. Deutsches Sängerbundesfest Wien 1928. |
| Desc: | Schneider, Vienna, 1928.
196pp, many illustrations, index. In German Not in Kahl |
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| Notes: | Memoir of the 10th Deutsches Sängerbundesfest in Vienna 1928. Produced as a souvenir for the participants (and it is not uncommon to find copies with pictures of participating choirs inlaid), so plenty of pictures from the parade, but also includes interesting pictures of the construction of the Sängerhalle, etc., and background material on the organisation of the Sängerbundesfest. | ||
| Author: | Rudolf Holzer (Schriftleitung) | Title: | Festblatter für das 10. Deutsche Sängerbundesfest Wien 1928 |
| Desc: | 10. Deutsche Sängerbundesfest,
Vienna, 1927-8. 336 pp in 12 booklets. Many illustrations and
facsimiles, music examples. In German Articles listed sperately in Kahl |
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| Notes: | Festival booklets for the 10th Deutsches Sängerbundesfest in Vienna. There were 12 booklets, published over the period from August 1927 to December 1928. They contain adverts, information about the Sängerbundesfest and it's organizers, various articles on song composers, including Schubert, Bruckner, Beethoven, Wolf, and other articles. Before the event many of the articles are about Austria, Vienna and the towns and villages around it. After the event there are pictures, reports etc. Includes a number of important articles by Otto Erich Deutsch, and others, including facsimiles. The first Folge has the first publication of Der 13. Psalm (D663), the third the first publication of Widerhall (D428), Erinnerungen (D424) and Andenken (D423), all in facsimile. First editions of Ländler (D354/4 and D355) are in the 9th Folge (May 1928). Can be found as individual booklets, or a bound set of all 12. The May 1928 edition (Folge 9) is packed with Schubert articles. | ||
| Author: | Lechner (publisher) | Title: | 10. Deutsches Sängerbundesfest Wien 1928. |
| Desc: | Lechner, Vienna, 1928.
240 pages of photographs, plus 30 pages of introduction. In
German Not in Kahl |
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| Notes: | Memoir of the 10th Deutsches Sängerbundesfest in Vienna 1928. Produced as a souvenir for the participants . More, and larger pictures than the equally common Harbauer book, though less background information. | ||
| Author: | Lechner (publisher) | Title: | 10. Deutsches Sängerbundesfest Wien 1928. Festführer. |
| Desc: | Lechner, Vienna, 1928.
XII + 232pp including many adverts, plus 16 pages of photographs.
In German Not in Kahl |
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| Notes: | Introductory handbook for the 10th Deutsches Sängerbundesfest in Vienna 1928. Presumably given to, or bought by all participants. Lots of adverts, a few pictures of notable persons, Schubert's birthhouse, etc. Background information on Vienna. Details of performances, with places, times, groups and works to be sung. | ||