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"This investigation of the later music of Franz Schubert explores the terrain of Schubert's impromptus and last piano sonatas. Drawing on the relationships between these pieces and Schubert's Winterreise song cycle, his earlier "Der Wanderer," the closely related "Unfinished" Symphony, and Schubert's story of exile and homecoming, "My Dream," Charles Fisk explains how Schubert's view of his own life may well have shaped his music in the years shortly before his death.". "Fisk's portrayal of Schubert is based on evidence from the composer's hand, both verbal (song texts and his written words)…
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1 edition- Hardcover · English · 2001University of California Press · 325 pages · 9780520225640
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