The Life of Franz Schubert by Heinrich Kreissle von Hellborn,... - 9781108077972

The Life of Franz SchubertAuthor(s): Heinrich Kreissle von Hellborn, Arthur D. Coleridge, George Grove\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108077972, 978-1108077972\nSynopsis\nThe astonishing creative genius of Franz Schubert [tel] produced an extraordinary quantity of music: song cycles, symphonies, piano and chamber works all now recognised as masterpieces. Such acclaim did not exist in the years immediately after his death, and it was only later, when the rediscovery of Schubert's music (led by George Grove) was gathering pace, that this work, the first full-length biography of the composer, appeared in 1865. Written by Heinrich Kreissle von Hellborn [tel], a Viennese lawyer and member of the city's Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, the work incorporates reminiscences of Schubert's friends as collected by Ferdinand Luib for his prospective biography. This 1869 English translation by Arthur Duke .