Byrne Bodley, Lorraine
(2015)
Review: Rentsch, Ivana, and Klaus Pietschmann, eds. Schubert: Interpretationen. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2014. 234 pp.
German Quarterly, 88 (3).
p. 379.
ISSN 0016-8831
Abstract
In Schubert: Interpretationen, Ivana Rentsch and Klaus Pietschmann bring together leading
musicologists predominantly from Austria, Germany, and Switzerland to produce, individually
and collectively, a sense of the current status and emerging trends in Schubert scholarship.
The essays exemplify the trend of the last fifteen or so years to place music into dialogue
with the texts and interpretive methods of theoretical, historical, and cultural analysis. While
the editors outline in their preface how biography and historical context are important reference
points in these essays, one of the great virtues of this volume is that it does not presume to
create too trim a fit between the man who suffered and the mind that created. It fills out the
historical record but stops short of presenting the composer’s music as a simple tit-for-tat
consequence of his life; it allows the creativemindits ownmysterious ways.Twohundred years
after his death, we are well and truly instructed in both the sentimental Schubert and the
postmodern Schubert. Rentsch and Pietschmann’s volume of essays reminds us that the
essential Schubert is still the secluded inner being, the one scholars find difficult to access, the
composer who continues to play hide-and-seek in the pages of the Neue Schubert Ausgabe.
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Article
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| Keywords: |
Ivana Rentsch; Klaus Pietschmann; Schubert; Interpretation; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Arts,Celtic Studies and Philosophy > Music |
| Item ID: |
7454 |
| Depositing User: |
Dr. Lorraine Byrne Bodley
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| Date Deposited: |
19 Sep 2016 11:02 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
German Quarterly |
| Publisher: |
Wiley |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
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