Schubert: The Music and the Man - Taschenbuch

Of all the great composers, none has been so dogged by myth and misunderstanding as Schubert. In this major new biography, Brian Newbould lays to rest the stereotype of the composer as a pudgy, lovelorn Bohemian scribbling tunes on the back of menus. Instead he paints a vivid and compelling portrait of a man who was compulsively dedicated to his art, a composer so prolific that he produced roughly one thousand works in an eighteen-year period.<P>Examining afresh the enigmas surrounding Schubert's religious outlook, his loves, his sexuality, his illness and death, Newbould offers a celebration of a unique genius, an idiosyncratic composer of an astonishing body of powerful, enduring music.