Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Permissions and Credits xvii
6. Schubert: The Nonsense Society Revisited 1
7. Excerpts from Beyträge zur Bildung für Jünglinge, 1817–1818 39
8. “Those of us who found our life in art”: The Second-Generation Romanticism of the Schubert-Schober Circle, 1820–1825 67
9. Schubert’s Kosegarten Settings of 1815: A Forgotten Liederspiel 115
10. The Queen of Golconda, the Ashman, and the Shepherd on a Rock: Schubert and the Vienna Volkstheater 157
11. Liszt on Schubert’s Alfonso und Estrella 183
12. Schubert’s Freedom of Song, if Not Speech 201
13. Schubert’s Tombeau de Beethoven: Decrypting the Piano Trio in E-Flat Major, Op. 100 241
14. Schubert in History 299
15. Index 349
16. Notes on Contributors 363