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Self-Quotation in Schubert

By Scott Messing

Self-Quotation in Schubert

By Scott Messing

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Enthusiasts and experts have long relished Schubert's quotations of his own music. This study centers on a previously unidentified pairing: "Ave Maria," one of his most beloved songs, and the Piano Trio no. 2, a masterpiece that holds a unique position in his career. Messing's Self-Quotation in Schubert interrogates the concept of self-quotation from the standpoints of terminology and authorial intent, and it demonstrates, for the first time, how Schubert's practice of self-quotation relates to prevailing practices in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Messing goes on to analyze in detail the musical relationships between the two works and to investigate the circumstances that led Schubert to compose each of them.
"Ave Maria" is one of the few Schubert songs for which we have documentation of some early private performances, and the trio stood at the heart of Schubert's only public concert devoted to his works. Messing establishes that Schubert sought to convey an associative meaning with this self-quotation, trusting in his contemporaries' familiarity with the original melody and with Walter Scott's poem, a text that carried profound resonances in Catholic Vienna. Scrutinizing this evidence yields the symbolic purpose behind Schubert's allusion to "Ave Maria" in the piano trio: honoring the recently deceased Beethoven and validating Schubert as his legatee.
SCOTT MESSING is Charles A. Dana Professor of Music Emeritus at Alma College.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
334
Release Date:
2020-05-01
Publication Date:
2020-05-15
Publisher:
University of Rochester Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1580469655
ISBN13:
9781580469654
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
636 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
23 cm
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