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Schubert Bibliography |
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Introduction |
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| This bibliography is
gleaned from the bibliography sections of various Schubert reference
works that I have access to, two key bibliographical works (by
Kahl and from
Schubert
durch die Brille) and from collections, being
especially influenced by my own collection since I want to be able
to comment on the books, and not just list them. In general, I'm
only including books - though there are many important essays in
various other sources which I'm beginning to document, so I may get
around to posting the key ones here in the magazines and journals
section. The most comprehensive reasonably modern bibliography that
I have seen is in the bibliography section of the
New Grove
Schubert. There is a reasonably comprehensive (though
much older) bibliography in the biographical book by
Flower.
The real enthusiast will find abstract indices in their local
library useful, and Schubert durch die Brille, the
journal of the now defunct IFSI, publishes lists of new publications
from time to time. However, the two most important published
bibliographies (Dr. Nicholas Rast, a Schubert scholar and collector,
has what is perhaps a more comprehensive bibliography, but that is
unpublished) are by Kahl,
(1938) and Hilmar & Bodendorf in
Brille
(2000). Bibliography entries quote Kahl and/or Hilmar reference
numbers as appropriate. Note that Kahl numbers alphabetically by
year, whereas Hilmar numbers chronologically by author. |
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| I've seen (indeed own)
most, but not all of these books, and I'm actively searching for a
few of them. There has recently been a bit of an explosion of second
hand book suppliers with catalogues posted, in one form or another,
on the web, which makes finding books much easier than it used to
be!. The most useful dedicated site for the Schubert collector is my
little Schubertiana business,
Half Time
Scores, which will usually have 100 or so Schubert books
available. |
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| Where both English and
other language versions of books exist, I will usually only quote
the English, even where this is not the first edition, though where
it is not available in English, I will quote the language. Note
that, of course, the serious scholar should always read the sources
in the original language, as things tend to get somewhat distorted
in translation. I've deliberately tried to mention the key sources
(i.e. those that everyone else quotes) even when I do not know them.
I've put in a small entry for all the books I have, even if they are
not 'key' (and even if I have not read them, which is often the case
with minor books in German, which I only read very slowly). Books I
regard as key are marked thus: [K]. Those which I don't own, and
thus have my comments based on a more cursory examination (though I
have sometimes read them), are marked '***'. |
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| The information used to
generate these HTML pages is maintained in an access database, which
is available to you from SIUK, (also available as an Excel
spreadsheet) so you may do your own analyses. For details, follow
the link. |
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| My own collection has now
reached a significant size, and is already overflowing a large
dedicated bookcase. I've also got a few works in German that I'm in
the (slow) process of translating, so most of the write ups of
German works are fairly vague. It's pretty much the case now that I
will buy any book with 'Schubert' in the title!, so if you know of
any... There are many, many books out there which you never see
quoted in the standard bibliographies, but which, nevertheless, do
afford some interest or amusement! |
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The bibliography lists
several hundreds of books, and so has had to be broken down into a
number of subpages. I've categorised books as sensibly and
consistently as possible, but there are always a few books that
don't really fit anywhere, or fit in more than one place. I have
therefore built a single 'cross index' page that lists all books
alphabetically by Author and Title, and can be used as an entry
point to the subpages. The sections in the bibliography can be
accessed from the drop-down menu, or the menu bar on the left hand
side of the pages. The classification of the sections is as follows:
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| © Richard Morris, 1995 Regular updates Major revision, 2002 |
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