Schubert's Workshop: Volume 2 Mastery and Beyond

Schubert’s Workshop offers a fresh study of the composer’s compositional technique and its development, rooted in the author’s experience of realising performing versions of Franz Schubert’s unfinished works. Through close examination of Schubert’s use of technical and structural devices, Brian Newbould demonstrates that Schubert was much more technically innovative than has been supposed, and argues that the composer’s technical discoveries constitute a rich legacy of specific influences on later composers. Providing rich new insights into the creative practice of one of the major figures of classical music, this two-volume study reframes our understanding of Schubert as an innovator who constantly pushed at the frontiers of style and expression.

Part 2: Chapter 24: The ‘Wanderer’ Fantasy Chapter 25: The Late Trios and Structural Serendipity Chapter 26: A Diabelli Variation Chapter 27: Symmetries Chapter 28: Segmentation Chapter 29: Cycles 1 Chapter 30: Cycles 2 Chapter 31: Counterpoint in Late Schubert Chapter 32: Aspects of Quartet Thinking Chapter 33: A Late Finale Chapter 34: Process and Genre Chapter 35: Symphony No.7 Chapter 36: Symphony No.10 Chapter 37: Symphony No.8 Chapter 38: Chamber Music Chapter 39: Piano Sonata in C, ‘Reliquie’ Chapter 40: String Quartet D.703 Andante Chapter 41: Symphonies D.2B and D.615 Chapter 42: Symphony in D, D.708A Chapter 43: A Postscript to Chapter 10 Chapter 44: Postlude Chapter 45: Legacy

Brian Newbould is a musicologist whose completions of several unfinished symphonies and other works by Schubert are played, broadcast and recorded worldwide. He has lectured in the North and South Americas, the Antipodes, and across Europe and Scandinavia. Schubert’s Workshop is his third book on this composer.