Bodley Lorraine Byrne. Schubert: A Musical Wayfarer

Yale University Press, 2023. — 832 p. — ISBN 978-0-300-26840-9.Brilliant, short-lived, incredibly prolific—Schubert is one of the most intriguing figures in music history. While his music attracts a wide audience, much of his private life remains shrouded in mystery, and significant portions of his work have been overlooked.In this major new biography, Lorraine Byrne Bodley takes a detailed look into Schubert’s life, from his early years at the Stadtkonvikt to the harrowing battle with syphilis that led to his death at the age of thirty-one. Drawing on extensive archival research in Vienna and the Czech Republic, and reconsidering the meaning of some of his best-known works, Bodley provides a fuller account than ever before of Schubert’s extraordinary achievement and incredible courage. This is a compelling new portrait of one of the most beloved composers of the nineteenth century.Prologue: Becoming Schubert
Bearings
The Family before Schubert
The Origins of a Composer (1797–1813)
Salieri, Partimento and the Beginnings of Creation
The Makings of a Composer (1812–1813)
Place and Displacement (1813–1814)
Schubert as a Church Music Composer
Awakenings
Unsung Schubert: Apprenticeship in Opera
The Promise of Freedom (1816–1818)
Friendships
Ars Amicitia: Art of Friendship
Ars Amicitiae: Art Born of Friendship
Art Born of Improvisation
Crises
In the Doldrums (1817–1818)
Schubert’s ‘Double Nature’ (1819–1822)
Secrets of the Self
The Watershed (1822–1824)
‘Art Born of Sorrow’: Schubert’s ‘Unfinished’
Songs of a Wayfarer (1822–1824)
High Windows of Zseliz
Essence
After the Crises: The Spirit of Beauty and its Fate
Late Sacred Music as a Site of Theology?
De Profundis: Final Songs
The Final Year (1828)
Lacrimae Rerum: Burial at Währing
Chronology