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Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2023-07-10 14:22 Words: 692; reading time: 3 minutes Broadening the mind Some reflections on Franz Schubert's travels in Austria and his path to the inner exile. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2022-05-02 04:14 Words: 2,678; reading time: 12 minutes Schubert on tour A review of Oliver Woog's book Franz Schuberts Aufenthalte in Oberösterreich, Salzburg und Umgebung. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2022-04-30 06:21 Words: 1,547; reading time: 7 minutes Schubert in da hood Franz Schubert growing up with family, friends and neighbours in a close-knit community. [8 pages] Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2020-07-08 14:24 Words: 25,742; reading time: 1 hour 57 minutes Updated on 2026-04-01 Brothers and sisters from the east The Schubert brothers and the Vietz sisters find their way to Vienna. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2020-07-08 14:24 Words: 2,610; reading time: 11 minutes The two Schubert families The Leopoldstadt and the Himmelpfortgrund Schuberts. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2020-07-08 14:24 Words: 1,450; reading time: 6 minutes The Schubert family businesses Surfing the wave of educational reform in the Austrian Empire. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2020-07-08 14:24 Words: 4,508; reading time: 20 minutes Ignaz and Elisabeth Wagner The close friends from the east. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2020-07-08 14:24 Words: 2,902; reading time: 13 minutes Michael Holzer The choirmaster in Lichtental, Schubert's first music teacher. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2020-07-08 14:24 Words: 3,895; reading time: 17 minutes The Grob family The Swiss silk-weaving families in Lichtental Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2020-07-08 14:24 Words: 3,438; reading time: 15 minutes The female factor The female community in Himmelpfortgrund, Lichtental and Rossau. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2020-07-08 14:24 Words: 2,091; reading time: 9 minutes Updated on 2026-04-22 The family bond A close family despite their differences. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2020-07-08 14:24 Words: 3,671; reading time: 16 minutes Updated on 2026-04-01 Scrapbook for June Lieder evening in Vienna | 'Latest comments' change | Barn wall smiley Posted on UTC 2020-06-01 02:01 Words: 162; reading time: 1 minute Hidden Schubert The Schubert materials we can't show you. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2020-05-29 10:44 Words: 930; reading time: 4 minutes The Atzenbrugg enlightenment A review of Oliver Woog's book Franz Schubert und sein Freundeskreis in den Schlössern Atzenbrugg und Aumühle. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2020-05-19 09:33 Words: 5,404; reading time: 24 minutes Franz Schubert und sein Freundeskreis in den Schlössern Atzenbrugg und Aumühle Announcing a recent book by Oliver Woog, the concert guitarist and Schubert researcher, which throws new light on the party life of the young Schubert crowd. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2020-05-11 10:11 Words: 488; reading time: 2 minutes Scrapbook for April Who's that train? | Schubert portrait 'Young Franz Schubert' Posted on UTC 2020-04-01 02:01 Words: 592; reading time: 2 minutes Scrapbook for March COVID-19 sanity check | Disgusting | Thuggery | New site navigation | Saint Joseph's Day | Can the UK National Health Service cope with COVID-19? | Do not touch me, woman | Two inspectors call | And don't step in the excrement | Country music for the doolally | The Schubert guide to handwashing | Before social media Posted on UTC 2020-03-01 02:01 Words: 1,893; reading time: 8 minutes Du bist die Ruh, swipe right edition A lonely reader of the New York Review of Books looking for Miss Perfect. Posted by Prudence Crowther on UTC 2020-02-09 10:04 Words: 521; reading time: 2 minutes Du bist die Ruh D 776 Another masterpiece from Friedrich Rückert's Oestliche Rosen (1819/1822), masterfully set to music by Franz Schubert (1823/1826). Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2020-02-09 10:04 Words: 3,905; reading time: 17 minutes Jägers Liebeslied D 909 Franz von Schober's much ado about nothing sinks without trace, taking Schubert's rubber ring with it. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2020-01-24 09:03 Words: 2,860; reading time: 13 minutes Die Sterne D 939 Musical mission impossible: Leitner's terrible poem and Schubert's attempted rescue. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2020-01-20 14:15 Words: 1,895; reading time: 8 minutes Franz Schubert and Franz von Schlechta Cracking the door, but just a little bit. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2020-01-17 16:43 Words: 4,553; reading time: 20 minutes Fischerweise D 881 Franz Xaver Freiherr Schlechta von Wssehrd's mediocre poem, rescued by Franz Schubert. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2020-01-15 10:21 Words: 4,770; reading time: 21 minutes Schubert portrait Whac-A-Mole As soon as we whack one, another one pops up. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2020-01-05 10:48 Words: 6,876; reading time: 31 minutes Updated on 2020-02-16 Ueber allen Gipfeln Ist Ruh' D 768 One genius stands on another's shoulders: Goethe and Schubert. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2020-01-01 08:14 Words: 10,235; reading time: 46 minutes Schubert in love Four trembling hands in F minor. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2019-12-21 08:16 Words: 4,864; reading time: 22 minutes Chillin' with the Kinskys Joseph von Spaun touches his forelock. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2019-12-18 08:02 Words: 8,827; reading time: 40 minutes Another Schubert portrait turns up Well, its got the specs at least, but nothing else. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2019-10-17 07:19 Words: 1,477; reading time: 6 minutes Scrapbook for September The Brexit deal explained | On the rug edge | Half-baked | Dim and dimmer | Greta Thunberg: climate victim | Home page illustrations | Die Schöne Müllerin website Posted on UTC 2019-09-01 02:01 Words: 1,273; reading time: 5 minutes A Schwanengesang website Will this delusion ever end? Doesn't look like it. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2019-09-29 10:08 Words: 781; reading time: 3 minutes The trembling aspen A look at the literary and musical life of a Populus tremula, with a contribution from Franz Schubert. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2019-09-27 14:12 Words: 7,116; reading time: 32 minutes Updated on 2025-07-28 Dr Rita Steblin An obituary notice for the Beethoven and Schubert scholar. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2019-09-13 10:13 Words: 320; reading time: 1 minute Franz Schubert and Ludwig Rellstab Yet more Schwanengesang nonsense. Seven execrable poems, six desperate settings, one super hit. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2019-09-09 14:27 Words: 9,402; reading time: 42 minutes Updated on 2020-10-22 Heinrich Heine and Franz Schubert Two worlds collide. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2019-08-26 09:07 Words: 6,392; reading time: 29 minutes Franz Schubert and Heinrich Heine Dismantling Schwanengesang — and about time, too. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2019-08-14 17:12 Words: 18,353; reading time: 1 hour 23 minutes Updated on 2019-09-15 Scrapbook for June Boris the Card | Lindenbaum | The choice is theirs | News from the asylum | The last insanity Posted on UTC 2019-06-01 02:01 Words: 863; reading time: 3 minutes Schubert the Insignificant Time to get rid of the 'Circles of Friends'. While we are about it, let's cast a gimlet eye on the Schubertiaden, those instruments of exploitation and oppression. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2019-06-21 08:21 Words: 6,435; reading time: 29 minutes Diving deep into Goethe's Der Fischer Keeping cool on the bottom with the eighteen year-old Franz Schubert. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2019-06-08 16:51 Words: 8,922; reading time: 40 minutes Updated on 2019-06-12 How many people listen to Schubert's music these days? Not many. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2019-06-02 14:03 Words: 1,945; reading time: 8 minutes Not a portrait of Franz Schubert Let's sort it all out, once and for all. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2019-05-23 08:21 Words: 9,494; reading time: 43 minutes Updated on 2019-05-28 Franz Schubert's Mensch What did the preacher in Zseliz mean? Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2019-05-13 08:42 Words: 4,697; reading time: 21 minutes Updated on 2019-05-14 Scrapbook for April Blending in | David Lama | Sunday morning coming down | Lest we forget | To leave or not to leave… Posted on UTC 2019-04-01 02:01 Words: 1,339; reading time: 6 minutes All things Winterreise An impressive new website for the Schubert/Müller song cycle. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2019-04-11 08:07 Words: 302; reading time: 1 minute Updated on 2019-07-16 Wilhelm Müller's 'three suns' Memories of Die Winterreise in the current northern hemisphere cold snap. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2019-02-01 11:04 Words: 1,197; reading time: 5 minutes Dass sie hier gewesen D 775: Rückert and Schubert Two lyrical geniuses at work. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2019-01-16 15:29 Words: 2,828; reading time: 12 minutes Alinde D 904: Rochlitz and Schubert A lesson in metrical magic from the master. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-12-03 13:12 Words: 5,364; reading time: 24 minutes 19 November 1828: the death of Franz Schubert 190 years ago – time to be rational. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-11-18 14:46 Words: 8,774; reading time: 39 minutes Ballet Zürich's Winterreise Great despair – and that's only the audience. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-10-15 17:55 Words: 210; reading time: 1 minute Gay days in Old Vienna? Oh no, not that again! [3 pages] Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-09-30 22:30 Words: 10,597; reading time: 48 minutes Deviant deed or personality type? Writing about homosexuality when there wasn't any. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-09-30 22:31 Words: 1,504; reading time: 6 minutes Warm beds and elevated feelings Sublime thoughts, openly expressed. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-09-30 22:33 Words: 3,909; reading time: 17 minutes Updated on 2019-09-30 How to write a big book in two days Professor Julian Horton shows us how. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-09-19 17:02 Words: 1,045; reading time: 4 minutes Schubert's downward spiral, 1827 Driven to despair by a fourteen-year-old girl, apparently. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-09-17 11:18 Words: 9,062; reading time: 41 minutes Updated on 2018-09-18 Franz Schubert in search of lost time Does happiness linger in places? No. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-09-01 16:37 Words: 10,917; reading time: 49 minutes Updated on 2018-09-07 Rolling the bacterial dice in Old Vienna Ah, Treponema pallidum pallidum! — and who's your pretty friend? Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-08-23 15:17 Words: 10,540; reading time: 47 minutes Franz Schubert below stairs July-November 1818: 200 years ago in Hungary. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-07-08 16:22 Words: 19,038; reading time: 1 hour 26 minutes Updated on 2019-05-08 3 June 1828: Fugue at midnight Franz Schubert once again working for nothing, 190 years ago. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-06-03 11:22 Words: 5,324; reading time: 24 minutes Updated on 2018-06-27 26 March 1828: Schubert's only concert A breakthrough for Franz 190 years ago that came just too late. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-03-22 09:54 Words: 3,998; reading time: 18 minutes Midnight, 21 February 1818 On this day 200 years ago, Franz Schubert was drunk in charge of an inkpot. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-02-21 00:01 Words: 6,383; reading time: 29 minutes Franz Schubert's 31st birthday 31 January 1828. Celebrating his last birthday with a big hit. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-01-30 08:32 Words: 1,313; reading time: 5 minutes January 1818: Franz Schubert dodges the draft Saved for musical posterity by three quarters of an inch. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-01-24 17:15 Words: 1,087; reading time: 4 minutes Updated on 2018-02-14 The mystery of Schubert's Unfinished Symphony A tour of words in single quotation marks, such as 'given', 'acquired', 'stolen', 'hidden', 'lost', 'found', 'unknown' and 'discovered'. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-10-17 15:28 Words: 7,214; reading time: 32 minutes Goethe's Heidenröslein Surviving a little prick. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-06-01 11:05 Words: 11,463; reading time: 52 minutes Updated on 2017-07-25 Christian Schubart: the prison years The author of Die Forelle gets taught a lesson. [10 pages] Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-05-15 18:40 Words: 20,749; reading time: 1 hour 34 minutes Schubart's dungeon cell in Hohenasperg Now you see it, now you don't. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-05-15 18:41 Words: 2,875; reading time: 13 minutes The commander and the clergyman Bad cop and even worse cop with some old scores to settle. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-05-15 18:42 Words: 2,725; reading time: 12 minutes His Serene Radiance Carl Eugen, Duke of Württemberg. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-05-15 18:43 Words: 1,759; reading time: 7 minutes Re-education Improving you until you stink. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-05-15 18:44 Words: 573; reading time: 2 minutes Some relief, 1778 The worst seems to be over. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-05-15 18:45 Words: 1,580; reading time: 7 minutes Fresh air, 1779 A glimpse of a distant, unreachable horizon. The permissibility of pleasure. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-05-15 18:46 Words: 2,117; reading time: 9 minutes The entertainer, 1780 Keeping the commander and his troops cheerful. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-05-15 18:47 Words: 2,231; reading time: 10 minutes Renewal, 1782 Recovering from Rieger. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-05-15 18:48 Words: 1,110; reading time: 5 minutes The Crypt of Princes Insult your captor publicly: that will get you out of prison in no time. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-05-15 18:49 Words: 1,709; reading time: 7 minutes Free at last He might have been better off staying in prison. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-05-15 18:50 Words: 3,221; reading time: 14 minutes Schubert: Greatest Hits Pick 'n mix in the sweetshop. Some tips on getting to know Schubert's music. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-05-01 14:29 Words: 837; reading time: 3 minutes Lied auf dem Wasser zu singen D 774. Great poem. Great music. Two geniuses at work. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-04-30 10:01 Words: 5,809; reading time: 26 minutes Schubert's friend Johann Senn For some people, being born on the first of April is no joke. [7 pages] Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-04-24 16:40 Words: 21,195; reading time: 1 hour 36 minutes The Senn family A Tyrolean family at the centre of political turmoil. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-04-24 16:41 Words: 2,069; reading time: 9 minutes The Tyrolean Fatherland A land of exceptionalism, independence and Catholic bigotry. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-04-24 16:42 Words: 2,450; reading time: 11 minutes Johann Senn in the Stadtkonvikt and after The young Tyrolean in Vienna. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-04-24 16:43 Words: 3,131; reading time: 14 minutes Revolting students German nationalism and political reform. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-04-24 16:44 Words: 1,360; reading time: 6 minutes Cooling down the hotheads The suppression of academic unrest. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-04-24 16:45 Words: 3,432; reading time: 15 minutes The first exile Johann Senn's exile in Innsbruck and his army years. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-04-24 16:46 Words: 4,412; reading time: 20 minutes The wilderness years Life and literary failure after the army. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-04-24 16:47 Words: 3,837; reading time: 17 minutes Schubert: from child to musical genius It was managed by a job… and a good job, too! Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-03-01 07:44 Words: 7,123; reading time: 32 minutes Updated on 2017-03-03 Will the real Schubert please stand up? Franz Schubert, master of disguise. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-02-13 10:57 Words: 3,137; reading time: 14 minutes Updated on 2025-01-19 Franz Peter Schubert's family Marking the 220th anniversary of the birth of the composer Franz Peter Schubert. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-01-18 16:02 Words: 2,713; reading time: 12 minutes Who is Schober? what is he? Why are you asking me? I've no idea either. [9 pages] Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-12-09 06:40 Words: 21,746; reading time: 1 hour 38 minutes Growing up, growing apart All change: Sweden, Germany and Austria Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-12-09 06:41 Words: 1,412; reading time: 6 minutes On the couch Austrian analytics: detachment, integration, inferiority, compensation. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-12-09 06:42 Words: 1,200; reading time: 5 minutes Family life Depravity, tragedy and 'bluebottles' taking notes. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-12-09 06:43 Words: 2,800; reading time: 12 minutes The cloud of unknowing Managing the documentary record. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-12-09 06:44 Words: 1,207; reading time: 5 minutes The Schobert wakes Schubert and Schober: charisma, friendship, money and social power. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-12-09 06:45 Words: 2,723; reading time: 12 minutes The cultural circles: 1815-1823 The singer, the salons, the reading club and the dilettante. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-12-09 06:46 Words: 4,575; reading time: 20 minutes The dark years: 1823-1826 Schubert's crisis years, Schober in Breslau. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-12-09 06:47 Words: 1,611; reading time: 7 minutes The final Schubert years: 1825-1828 The days of wine and roses in the coffee-house. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-12-09 06:48 Words: 2,344; reading time: 10 minutes Schober after Schubert Moving on and falling out. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-12-09 06:49 Words: 3,567; reading time: 16 minutes The Schubert trajectory Standing back for a detail-free biography. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-11-04 19:11 Words: 3,726; reading time: 16 minutes The Jacobin Conspiracy Making the mood music of Schubert's times. [6 pages] Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-10-01 09:00 Words: 14,407; reading time: 1 hour 5 minutes Circles of conspiracy Secret meetings, handwritten circulars and strange gestures. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-10-01 09:01 Words: 1,476; reading time: 6 minutes Franz Hebenstreit The hothead cavalry lieutenant with the big voice. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-10-01 09:02 Words: 3,274; reading time: 14 minutes Andreas von Riedel The mathematics teacher. How much can a man survive? Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-10-01 09:03 Words: 4,264; reading time: 19 minutes Joseph Vinzenz Degen Some pieces of silver. Fortune favours the betrayer. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-10-01 09:04 Words: 777; reading time: 3 minutes Making the punishment fit the crime Learning from the conspiracy. Closing down discussion and criticism. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-10-01 09:05 Words: 485; reading time: 2 minutes The atmosphere under the belljar The calm people of the becalmed empire keep their noses clean. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-10-01 09:06 Words: 2,020; reading time: 9 minutes Rustling inspiration More for Schubert fans: a closer look at Wohin? from Die schöne Müllerin. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-09-22 13:56 Words: 1,243; reading time: 5 minutes Franz's belljar The belljar of the Austrian Emperor Franz II comes down over his people. Young composers included. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-09-13 07:18 Words: 5,510; reading time: 25 minutes The other Spaun Crazy uncle Franz Seraph von Spaun: an heroic life of principled resistance bordering on the psychotic. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-09-05 10:58 Words: 6,675; reading time: 30 minutes Gretchen am Spinnrade Schubert again. This time the seventeen year-old's 'stroke of genius of the first order'. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-06-13 17:41 Words: 2,970; reading time: 13 minutes Before Schubert The ancestors who made him possible. [5 pages] Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-05-24 08:40 Words: 11,945; reading time: 54 minutes Carl and Susanna Schubert The pious farmer who educated his sons; the farming family who survived disease and famine to prosper. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-05-24 08:41 Words: 4,885; reading time: 22 minutes The two brothers Johann Karl and Franz Theodor: from the farming village to the Jesuit High School. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-05-24 08:42 Words: 2,751; reading time: 12 minutes The brothers reach Vienna Karl lands on his feet in the big city, then helps Franz Theodor to do the same. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-05-24 08:43 Words: 2,048; reading time: 9 minutes The two sisters Elisabeth and Magdalena Vietz: two sisters for two brothers. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-05-24 08:44 Words: 1,126; reading time: 5 minutes Franz Theodor and Elisabeth's children The composer's family: fifteen children, few survivors, one musical genius. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-05-24 08:45 Words: 853; reading time: 3 minutes For the greater glory of God: Carl Schubert The servant of the Catholic God leads an upright and pious life albeit without lasting utility. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-05-01 07:46 Words: 2,265; reading time: 10 minutes Out of the swamp More Schubert. Matthisson and Brun wallow, Goethe and Schubert ascend to the light. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-04-17 17:08 Words: 3,534; reading time: 16 minutes Die Forelle Fishy tales, speculations, a decade in a dungeon, oblivion and immortality. You can't beat a good song. [5 pages] Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-02-07 16:50 Words: 18,547; reading time: 1 hour 24 minutes Franz Schubert – The Trout Quintet The young genius playing for his supper in provincial Austria. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-02-07 16:51 Words: 1,418; reading time: 6 minutes Franz Schubert – The Trout A taste of immortality for a forgotten poet from an unknown composer. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-02-07 16:52 Words: 430; reading time: 1 minute Christian Schubart – The road to doom How to make enemies and the fine art of annoying nearly everyone at the same time. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-02-07 16:53 Words: 7,717; reading time: 35 minutes Christian Schubart – Taking the bait Muddying the waters and choosing the perfect bait for the victim: a masterpiece! Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-02-07 16:54 Words: 6,835; reading time: 31 minutes Christian Schubart – The Trout The bright, romantic allegory of deception and kidnap on the autopsy slab. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-02-07 16:55 Words: 1,953; reading time: 8 minutes Die Winterreise Schubert yet again, but no cheerful bits at all this time, just loss, betrayal, rejection, alienation and wandering. [5 pages] Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2015-12-31 16:10 Words: 9,781; reading time: 44 minutes Chapter 1 – The birth of the text of Die Winterreise. The 'Urania' text, the 'Waldhornist' text and Schubert's synthesis. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2015-12-31 16:11 Words: 1,210; reading time: 5 minutes Chapter 2 – Poems 1-12 A narrative of loss, rejection and wandering: the first twelve poems of the Die Winterreise and the narrative thread. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2015-12-31 16:12 Words: 1,768; reading time: 8 minutes Chapter 3 – Poems 13-24 Themes of despair, alienation and wandering: the last twelve poems of the Die Winterreise; thematic structure and the death paradox. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2015-12-31 16:13 Words: 2,061; reading time: 9 minutes Chapter 4 – Wilhelm Müller The biographical background to Wilhelm Müller's poem collection Die Winterreise. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2015-12-31 16:14 Words: 1,913; reading time: 8 minutes Chapter 5 – Franz Schubert The biographical background to Franz Schubert's setting of the song-cycle Winterreise. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2015-12-31 16:15 Words: 2,325; reading time: 10 minutes Die schöne Müllerin Schubert again. Two blondes making out. A talking stream looks on as the hunter gets the girl. Many trigger alerts here. [4 pages] Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2015-12-03 16:10 Words: 9,504; reading time: 43 minutes Chapter 1 – The song-cycle and its prologue The genesis of the idea of a song-cycle from Wilhem Müller's prologue to Die schöne Müllerin. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2015-12-03 16:11 Words: 2,021; reading time: 9 minutes Chapter 2 – Poems 1-12 Love and joy: a structural analysis of the first twelve poems of the Die schöne Müllerin. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2015-12-03 16:12 Words: 2,360; reading time: 10 minutes Chapter 3 – Poems 13-23 Despair and death: a structural analysis of the last eleven poems of the Die schöne Müllerin. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2015-12-03 16:13 Words: 2,558; reading time: 11 minutes Chapter 4 – The context of the work The problem of the narrative song-cycle; the biographical component. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2015-12-03 16:14 Words: 2,242; reading time: 10 minutes Quote and image of the month for November Quote: Wilhelm Müller, Die Winterreise. Image: Carl Julius von Leypold, Der Wanderer im Sturm/The wanderer in the storm. Posted on UTC 2015-11-01 01:02 Words: 55; reading time: 1 minute All Souls' Day, 2 November Some thoughts for All Souls' Day, 2 November on the Litany for All Souls' Day of Johann Georg Jacobi, set to music by Franz Schubert. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2015-11-02 10:12 Words: 1,730; reading time: 7 minutes Schubert, you idiot! How Franz Schubert managed to write one of the greatest secular choral works, despite messing up somewhat.Part of an occasional series on the composer. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2015-09-28 15:20 Words: 1,673; reading time: 7 minutes Beginning Schubert An introduction to his biography and works dealt with on this website. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2020-05-22 16:04 Words: 998; reading time: 4 minutes Schubert collection A list of the articles on this website related to Franz Schubert or his world. Posted on UTC 2018-07-08 10:43
